Event details

Academic Skills	Digital Literacy	Personal Development	Responsibility	Sustainability	Work Environment

When and how can text-generating AI be used supportively and honestly in the academic research and writing process? And when should it be avoided?
This course teaches basic skills for academic work with AI. The focus is not on increasing efficiency, but on how you can use AI to improve your own skills and thus the quality of your own work.
You can expect the following content:

• Technology (How LLM work) and responsibility (Why I would never use AI, but you should still learn it in this course)
• Research with AI
• Good scientific prompting and AI editing
• Communication processes with LMM (Communication in the fog; Rhetoric coach or bore?; Can AI coach my writer’s block?)

In addition to working on the learning material on your own, this course includes the writing of an essay and a final oral reflection discussion.

The course will be activated for you on Ilias on 03.11.2025. You will receive the access link to the Ilias course room and all further information on the course schedule in an introductory email on 03.11.2025.

Note:
The essay and the reflection discussions are, with the agreement of the students, also the subject of the research project KI@helpBW of the writing lab in cooperation with the KIT library (https://llm-literacy.de/ki-at-helpbw/). Participation is voluntary. No personal data of participating students will be collected.

Workload for ECTS:

3 ECTS: self-paced online course, writing an essay, reflection discussion

 

Lecturer:

Lisa Sielaff studied German Studies (M.A.) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and has been a research assistant at the Writing Lab of the House of Competence (HoC) since 2022. Among other things, she works on teaching and learning materials for writing and researching with AI and supervises the writing lab’s tutor training program.

Kevin Schumacher is a Germanist (M.A.) and studied at the University of Mannheim and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He has been a research assistant at the Writing Lab of the House of Competence (HoC) since 2022. In cooperation with the KIT library, he develops online courses on scientific research and writing with AI. Since 2024, he has also been an employee at the Office for Good Scientific Practice and Ethical Principles at the KIT Library.

Achim Winandi works at the writing lab in the KI@HelpBW project. He has been teaching courses on scientific writing with LaTeX and similar programs at KIT for many years.

Franziska Duch studied German Studies (M.A.) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. She has been working as a research assistant at the Writing Lab of the House of Competence (HoC) since 2022. She manages the online learning platform ‘HoCampus’ and develops online courses on academic writing and text-generating AI.