JMU Libraries Offers Resources to Support Teaching, Learning, and Research with Artificial Intelligence (AI) 

Posted September 14, 2024 in Educational Technology News, Featured News, Instructional Design News, JMU Libraries News

As generative artificial intelligence changes the nature of work, learning, and communication, higher education is only one of many industries grappling with its ethical and practical implications. JMU offers Microsoft CoPilot Chat, a generative artificial intelligence (gAI) tool with commercial data protections, as the approved gAI resource for all students, staff, and faculty. JMU Libraries offers a variety of ways for faculty, staff, and students to learn more about AI, critically interrogate it, and use it appropriately in their work.   

We invite you to contact us for consultation or support, and to engage with the learning resources we’ve created and assembled here:

• Interactive workshops:
  • We are offering AI workshops in Fall 2025. All are open to faculty, staff, and students, and are held in a hybrid format (in Rose Library and on Zoom).
• Self-paced learning:  
  • LinkedIn Learning offers courses, videos, articles and other resources on specific AI-related topics and tools, such as Microsoft Copilot and prompt engineering. Learn how to create your JMU LinkedIn Learning account.  
  • AI Literacy Course is a Canvas course for all JMU employees and students on the basics of AI, covering four competencies: awareness, capability, knowledge, and critical thinking (approx. 1 hour completion time). 
  • Teaching & Learning with Artificial Intelligence is a module we designed especially for JMU instructors, added in Fall 2024 to our self-paced, online Design for Learning Institute.  
• Online guides from JMU Libraries:  
  • Artificial Intelligence in Education is a faculty-oriented guide created by JMU Libraries to share best practices and help instructors explore the use of AI in teaching and learning. This guide includes sections like academic integrity, with sample syllabus statements and class assignments.  
  • Related guides: Other relevant JMU Libraries guides, like one on Data Literacy and another on AI and Copyright (part of our larger guide to Copyright at JMU).  
• Student guide: We also recommend this Student Guide to Artificial Intelligence from the Imagining the Digital Future Center, which provides a manual to help students “become skilled in using AI comfortably, effectively, safely and ethically.”  
• Virtual book displays: Artificial Intelligence and You (2019) and Data Ethics (2021), two relevant online displays of books and other resources from our collections.  
• Past offerings:
  • We developed and offered workshops in August and November 2024 on Understanding, Applying, and Discussing Artificial Intelligence. We also hosted relevant faculty forums in April 2025 and AI Summer Bootcamps for JMU faculty and staff in Summer 2025. This page will be updated if we are able to host these workshops or forums again.

As always, your JMU Libraries colleagues are here to help with your research, teaching, and learning needs related to emerging technologies and information literacy! Please reach out.   

With thanks to colleagues from all across the JMU Libraries, and members of the 2023-2024 Presidential Task Force on Artificial Intelligence. 

Last updated July 16, 2025