Teaching AI Literacy in the Research Process
Research and Instruction Librarians can address generative AI in the context of information literacy as is relevant to your course and/or assignments to help prepare students to work with the ongoing evolution of GenAI tools. Librarians focus their learning objectives on skills, such as prompt generation and evaluation, that are transferable across Northeastern-licensed research databases and tools.
Library Provided AI Tools
For more information about AI tools available through the Northeastern University Library, please see the Northeastern University Library's Artificial Intelligence page.
Instructional Sessions
Planning a Session
Planning a workshop or instruction session begins with reaching out to your subject librarian. Here are some other considerations:
Session development and scheduling can take anywhere from 2 to 12 weeks, depending on the discipline, session scope, and semester timing.
Discuss your students’ existing skills or knowledge in your classroom, your course learning objectives, and/or assignments.
We would be happy to discuss more how we can meet your instructional vision and your group’s needs.
If you're curious about planning a session for your faculty, staff, student, or research group but are unsure about the specifics, your subject librarian would be happy to collaboratively design a session that suits your needs.
Sample Workshops
AI Powered Research
During this session, participants learned how to get more out of their AI tools while maintaining their scholarly integrity. Participants learned effective strategies for integrating AI into the research process, understood limitations of AI tools, and discovered best practices to avoid common mistakes.
Includes demonstration and hands-on practice with Scite.ai
Scite vs. ScopusAI
This session presented a quick overview of two different AI tools–Scite and ScopusAI–that can be used in education research, including some guidance about what purposes each tool is best suited for. Then participants had an opportunity to test drive those tools in real-time, troubleshooting barriers and brainstorming ways to apply these tools to their individual research projects and professional duties.
Please reach out to your subject librarian if you would like any additional information about these or any other sessions.
Library Tutorials on Reasearch and AI
How can Generative AI help with my Research?
This asynchronous tutorial introduces what generative AI is, the limitations of the models, and how to incorporate it into and evaluate it in your research process.
Literature review search strategies: AI and Library resources
This asynchronous tutorial was developed for a doctoral Education course in which students worked on a comprehensive literature review. The module incorporates search and evaluation strategies for both traditional research databases and generative AI tools.