Explore real stories and exploratory use cases from faculty and students who are reshaping higher education with generative AI.
This collection highlights experiments, reflections, and breakthroughs in teaching and learning with AI across disciplines. Each story began with a question, a challenge, or even a moment of doubt:
Will students rely too much on AI? Can it support creativity? How do we teach students to think critically with it?
Through thoughtful integration, faculty discovered not just tools, but new pedagogies—transforming the “what ifs” into “here’s how it worked.”
Whether you’re curious, cautious, or already innovating, these stories offer insight, inspiration, and a pathway forward.
AI didn’t replace the educator—it revealed new ways to teach, learn, and grow together.
SPOTLIGHT STORIES
Faculty AI Journeys
Meet the educators who didn’t wait for a perfect plan—they started experimenting. In these stories, faculty from across disciplines share how curiosity, hesitation, and bold iteration shaped their use of generative AI in the classroom. From rethinking writing prompts to redesigning entire courses, these journeys reveal the messy, meaningful, and often surprising path toward AI-powered teaching.
Have a question, a challenge, or idea to explore related to using AI in your course? Meet Dr. D’TAIL, your AI teaching coach!
Using our Charlotte AI Stories as data, Dr. D’TAIL is here to help you reflect, explore what’s possible, and design meaningful, ethical uses of AI for your students.
“Bring your curiosity—I’ll bring the case studies.
