Credits, Attribution, and Licensing

Project Team

The AI and Metaliteracy OER Toolkit was developed through a collaborative effort by Nicola Marae Allain, Tom Mackey, and Eugenio Solis de Ovando.

Dr. Marae Allain, Dr. Mackey, and Dr. Solis de Ovando contributed assignments, discussions, and related course materials to the toolkit while also shaping its broader development. Together, they developed the overall framework, module structure, conceptual organization, and integration of AI and metaliteracy throughout the resource.

SUNY Empire Faculty Contributions

Additional SUNY Empire faculty colleagues contributed course-based materials that informed the toolkit.

  • Dr. Susan Oaks contributed writing assignment examples from SUNY Empire courses represented in the toolkit.
  • Dr. Cindy Conaway contributed AI-focused assignments and discussion activities from SUNY Empire courses, including examples related to digital communication, social media, and data visualization.

The toolkit includes adapted course-based materials contributed by project team members and SUNY Empire faculty colleagues. These contributions include sample assignments, discussions, rubrics, and related teaching materials drawn from the courses represented in the toolkit.

In addition to adapted course materials, some content in this toolkit was developed specifically for this resource to strengthen AI integration, reflection, and metaliteracy development across the modules.

AI Assistance

Various generative AI tools were used in the development of this toolkit, with substantial human involvement throughout. AI-supported work included framing and brainstorming, drafting module overviews, developing and refining assignment prompts, assisting with rubric development, generating images and avatar materials, and offering recommendations for organization and structure.

All AI-supported content was reviewed, edited, selected, and substantially shaped by the project team. Human contributors made the instructional, design, and editorial decisions for the final resource.

Open Educational Resource and Licensing

This toolkit is an Open Educational Resource. Unless otherwise noted, the original materials in this toolkit are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, also known as CC BY-SA 4.0.

This means you may copy, share, reuse, revise, remix, and adapt the original toolkit materials, including for educational purposes, as long as you:

  • Give appropriate credit
  • Provide a link to the license
  • Indicate whether changes were made
  • Share adapted materials under the same license

The ShareAlike requirement means that if you remix, transform, or build upon the original toolkit materials and share your adapted version, you must distribute your contributions under the same license.

Some materials in this toolkit may include third-party content, images, tools, links, or examples that are subject to separate copyright or licensing terms. Please review those items individually before reusing them outside the toolkit.

Suggested Attribution

When reusing or adapting this resource, please include an attribution that identifies the title, creators, source, and license.

Suggested attribution:

AI and Metaliteracy OER Toolkit by Nicola Marae Allain, Tom Mackey, and Eugenio Solis de Ovando, Empire State University, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Once finalized, the toolkit will be available for download from the Metaliteracy.org website and may also be distributed through platforms that support the sharing and discovery of Open Educational Resources.:

AI and Metaliteracy OER Toolkit by Nicola Marae Allain, Tom Mackey, and Eugenio Solis de Ovando, Empire State University, available at Metaliteracy.org, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Suggested Citation

You may adapt the following citation to fit your discipline or preferred citation style:

Allain, N., Mackey, T., & Solis de Ovando, E. (2026). AI and Metaliteracy OER Toolkit. Empire State University. Metaliteracy.org. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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