Pre-Orders for the Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching

I'm very exited to share that you can now pre-order The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching!

Annette Vee, Marc Watkins, and I wrote this book to provide practical strategies for instructors across higher education to respond to the challenges and opportunities that generative AI presents in our teaching. We argue that being AI-aware means being clear on our course learning goals and objectives, understanding something about how AI works, and exploring what our students think about generative AI and how they're using AI tools. When we've done that, we're in an excellent position to decide what roles generative AI should have (if any) in our teaching.

In the book, we walk readers through a series of steps to help them practice AI-aware teaching, and we share lots of concrete examples of how instructors have adapted their teaching to account for generative AI. Seriously, we have so many examples! A few are drawn from our own teaching, but most have been shared by colleagues across higher education from a variety of disciplines and institutional contexts. No matter what approach to AI you take, from resistance or restriction to exploration or engagement, I think you'll find examples of AI-aware guidelines and activities and assignments that you can easily adapt to your particular teaching context.

I'm very glad to have this book out in the world soon! The ebook is expected to be available July 1st, and print copies are expected to start shipping on September 24th. Here's how you can get a copy:

1. Our publisher Norton is pleased to offer the guide as a free ebook for all instructors currently using a Norton textbook. If that's you, you'll receive access from the Norton team when the ebook is available July 1st, and you can contact your local Norton representative with any questions.
2. If you haven't adopted a Norton textbook but would like to pre-order the ebook so that you have it July 1st, you can now do so through Amazon and Barnes & Noble. I expect that ebook pre-orders will be available soon through other retailers as they update their systems with information about the book.
3. If you would like to pre-order the paperback version of the book, you can now do so through Norton, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble. As with ebook pre-orders, I expect paperback pre-orders to be available through other retailers soon.
4. If you would like to order multiple copies for a campus reading group or some other faculty development effort, Norton has an option for you: On orders of 10 or more print copies, we offer 50% off the list price and free domestic shipping. (Such orders must be on a nonreturnable basis.) To take advantage of this offer, contact Peter Wentz at pwentz@wwnorton.com with subject line “Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching.”

I'll reiterate that the paperback isn't expected in the warehouse until late September, so bear that in mind as you plan reading groups and such.

You may have heard how important pre-orders are to book launches. Pre-orders usually count toward first-week sales figures, which can put a book higher up on rankings and lists, which in turn helps more people know about the book. And retailers like Amazon and Barnes & Noble typically use pre-order sales to determine how many copies of the book they'll stock, which can affect how often they show the book to customers online or in retail stores. So if you pre-order a copy, not only will you get your copy as soon as its available, you'll help others in higher ed find the book, too!

I'll have more to say about the book in the coming weeks, but I'll sign off for now with a hearty thanks to Annette and Marc for being most outstanding co-authors and to the team at Norton, especially our editors Erica Wnek and Betsy Twitchell and our marketer Marla Gagne, for doing so much to support this project.