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 Workshops
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
Please reach out to your subject librarian if you have suggestions or would like any additional information about 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
Library Tutorials on Reasearch and AI
Generative AI for Library Research : A Suite of Tutorials
This collection of tutorials, developed by Northeastern Research and Instruction librarians, provides clear and accessible guidance to key aspects of artificial intelligence for library research.
The tutorials are available for individual use, or can be added to Canvas courses as suggested activities or assignments.
Literature review search strategies for EdD students: 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.