Looking to teach with confidence in the age of AI? Start here.
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The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching will equip instructors with practical strategies for teaching effectively in the age of AI. AI-aware teaching means understanding how the technology impacts course goals, assignments, and students so that instructors can adapt with confidence. The guide provides steps for how to do so—whether the instructor is embracing AI, setting firm boundaries, or finding a balance. Flexible guidance and useful applications across disciplines empower instructors to adapt their learning outcomes to be AI aware.
Practical Organization: The guide will be organized chronologically as an instructor would approach preparing for or revising a course. This organization—which progresses from planning, designing, and teaching an AI-aware course to adapting instructional practices as AI evolves—will help teachers implement new, effective strategies immediately.
Flexible Guidance: Instructors can explore flexible, varied options for adapting their teaching to address AI’s impact on student habits and learning through frameworks that make AI-aware teaching both attainable and sustainable.
A Focus on Learning Outcomes: Instructors are motivated when they think in terms of their own students and their specific learning outcomes. The guide empowers instructors to make changes that make sense for their courses through compelling research, thorough examples, and practical strategies.
Useful Applications: Through inspiring examples, the guide will support the development of AI-aware assignments, activities, assessments, and course policies.
Publishing in July 2026 by W.W. Norton & Company
Join us for a 4-week virtual, author-facilitated, communal reading experience on the book, The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching.
Dates: July 2026
Cost: $15 for 8-week access to the ebook and the event in Perusall
Location: Perusall platform -- participate on your own schedule!
Annette Vee is Associate Professor of English and Faculty Liaison for AI Enablement at University of Pittsburgh. She facilitates research and faculty development on AI and frequently gives keynotes and workshops related to AI. Her published works include: TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies (WAC Clearinghouse, 2023, updates in 2024 & 2025); and Substacks AI & How We Teach Writing and Computation & Writing and, with Marc Watkins and Derek Bruff, The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching, due out in Summer 2026 with W. W. Norton.
Marc Watkins directs the AI Institute for Teachers and is an Assistant Director of Academic Innovation at the University of Mississippi, where he is a Lecturer in Writing and Rhetoric. He has led research initiatives, exploring generative AI’s impact on student learning, training workshops for faculty on AI literacy, and several institution-wide AI institutes.
Derek Bruff is an educator, author, and faculty developer. He consults regularly with faculty and administrators across higher education on issues of teaching, learning, and faculty development, and he is currently an associate director at the Center for Teaching Excellence at the University of Virginia. Bruff has three three books on teaching and technology, including The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching, co-authored with Annette Vee and Marc Watkins, and he produces the Intentional Teaching podcast.
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Please note: the course will be available for participants to continue the conversation for 4 weeks after the conclusion of the event. You may unenroll at any time.
