"Ethical Use of AI in Teaching: Safeguarding Academic Integrity While Empowering Learning"

Описание: • Pondering AI
February 12, 2026

Peggy Semingson, PhD
Ahmad Bani Hani, PhD
Laurel Stvan, PhD
• Ethical Use of AI in Teaching: Safeguarding Academic Integrity While Empowering Learning

• Focus of the Session:

• Exploring ethical practices for using AI in teaching to maintain academic integrity.
• Helping instructors understand how to empower learning with AI while avoiding misuse.
• Raising awareness about responsible AI integration in teaching environments.
• Discussion Themes:
• What counts as ethical vs. unethical use of AI in academic coursework.
• How instructors can design assignments that discourage overreliance on AI tools.
• Ways AI can support student learning without replacing critical thinking.
• Frameworks or guidelines educators can adopt to ensure integrity.

• Intro of presenters
• What CRTLE is doing with AI literacy/education for faculty
• AI Course Redesign Institutes
• Pedagogy Next articles
• Building foundational AI literacy focused on teaching, learning, and academic integrity
• Offering faculty‑centered professional learning (workshops, Faculty Voices, microlearning) with real classroom use cases
• Emphasizing ethical, equitable, and accessible uses of AI aligned with UDL and evidence‑based teaching
• Supporting hands‑on exploration of AI for assignment design, feedback, and instructional efficiency
• Fostering an ongoing community of practice that encourages thoughtful experimentation and reduces fear as tools evolve.



• Technology Test Kitchens: Embedded AI
• AI embedded into workflow
• Adobe Firefly
• Peggy
• Intro of topic
• Overview of UTA Teaching Guidelines for AI policies https://ai.uta.edu/generative-ai-guideline...
• Lance Eaton ideas
• AI and academic misconduct- some context and provocations – HEducationist
• In the Room Where It Happens: Generative AI Policy Creation in Higher Education | EDUCAUSE Review
• Overview of UTA Teaching Guidelines for AI

• UTA’s Generative AI Guidelines for Instruction emphasize a balanced, faculty‑driven approach—from cautious restriction to thoughtful integration. The guidelines encourage faculty to:
• Make transparent decisions about if, when, and how AI tools are used in courses
• Consider academic integrity, accessibility, data privacy, and ethics alongside innovation
• Align AI use with course goals rather than adopting tools by default
• Clearly communicate expectations and boundaries to students.

• UTA Libraries new Canvas course on AI Citation: Located in Canvas Commons (still under construction for several more weeks)
• Crowd‑Sourced Syllabus Policies for Generative AI

• Crowd‑Sourced Syllabus Policies for Generative AI
• What it is:
A living collection of 100+ sample syllabus statements ranging from AI‑prohibited to AI‑integrated, organized across disciplines and institutions.
• Why it’s useful:
• Helps faculty articulate expectations clearly
• Reinforces transparency over policing
• Encourages alignment with learning outcomes, not tools
• Source:
Classroom Policies for AI Generative Tools (created by Lance Eaton)
Classroom Policies for AI Generative Tools

• AI Policies In The Classroom
• Ethicality
• Explain to students the risk of over relying on AI.
• Explain to students what counts as ethical use of AI.

• Activity Policy
• The policy you develop for AI use should depend on the type of activity.
• Different policy for different activities.

• The next set of slides will go over recommended practices and AI policies for presentations, reports, and discussions.
• Presentations & Reports
• Tell students they can use AI to explore topics and ideas or even get answers to questions.
• However, this does not remove the responsibility of doing the research.
• Require students to cite all the sentences.
• Require a minimum number of references.
• Teach students how to cite and reference.
• https://libguides.uta.edu/apa/citations
• https://libguides.uta.edu/apa/references


• Google Scholar
• Encourage (or require) students to look for journal articles.
• Google Scholar has the references ready in APA format.

• Go to https://scholar.google.com/
• Find the article you want the reference of.
• Click on ‘Cite’ underneath the article.
• The APA format will be written on the window that opens up.

• Discussions – Option #1
• Ask students to refer to a module and come up with one thing that interested them that they want to learn more about.
• Students can use AI to explore the topic, system, terminologies, etc.
• Students would still be required to cite and reference the work.
• Consider a minimum number of sources.
• Explain AI Hallucination.
• Discussions – Option #2
• Provide students with a prompt.
• Allow students to develop their post using AI.
• The responses would be fact checking by peers using sources.
• “meet me halfway” type of deal.