These projects come from University of Kentucky faculty participants in the 2025–26 Teaching Innovation Institute (TII).
How UK Instructors are using Generative AI in their Teaching TII Projects 2025-26
Assignments and activities at a glance
| Project | Discipline | What it involves | Tools Used |
|---|---|---|---|
| Students evaluate AI output | |||
| AI literacy in a research methods course | Sociology | Students log AI use on every assignment and critique a Scite.ai literature review against articles they have read. | Scite.ai, Canvas |
| Workshop series for graduate students | Sport and Performance Psychology | Students complete a reading, case, or content task themselves, then compare their work with an AI version. | Gemini Notebook, Claude, Scite.ai, Copilot |
| Audience personas and strategic analysis | Arts Administration | Students interview and fact-check an AI audience persona; NotebookLM supports a SWOT and PESTLE analysis. | ChatGPT, Gemini Notebook |
| Voice and authenticity in AI writing | Gender and Women’s Studies | A low-stakes discussion board assignment comparing student voice with AI output. | ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot |
| AI as a practice partner or tutor | |||
| AI-assisted Latin reading | Classics (Latin) | Students paraphrase Latin sentences and get strategy hints instead of translations. | Custom web app |
| Adaptive treatment-planning cases | Dentistry | Clinical cases that change difficulty and options based on student decisions. | ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini Notebook |
| Soft skills lab | Dentistry | AI-simulated scenarios for low-stress practice of professional communication. | AI chatbots |
| AI literacy across a course | |||
| Graduate research design | Psychology | Students set norms for AI use at each research stage using the CELT AI Use Scale. | CELT AI Use Scale |
| Shared lesson for a multi-section course | Agriculture, Food and Environment | One common hands-on AI lesson, with training for 25 instructors. | Shared lesson plan |
| Supporting colleagues | |||
| Course evaluation assistant | Health Sciences | An AI agent that helps faculty interpret teacher course evaluations. | Copilot agent |
| Assessment innovation app | Agriculture, Food and Environment | An app that suggests alternative assessments with rubrics and grading-time estimates. | Custom app, ChatGPT agent |
| Workshops on AI & primary literature | Biology | Faculty workshops on designing assignments that use AI to read research papers. | Gemini Notebook, Scite.ai |
| Studying AI and learning | |||
| Creativity study | Educational Psychology | A research project on human creativity and cognition alongside AI. | Copilot, ChatGPT, etc. |