AI4SG Curriculum

Interdisciplinary AI education aligned with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs)

Citation Requirement

The AI4SG curriculum is openly available for educational use. If you use any part of this curriculum in your course, program, or research, you are required to cite the relevant publication(s) listed under each level below.

Level 1 — Ideation

Students identify a real social problem aligned with a UN SDG, explore relevant AI technologies, and propose an AI-powered solution through research, design thinking, and team presentation. No coding required.

AI4SG Mini Project Core ideation project used across all disciplines
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AI4SG Gemini Ideation labs using Google Gemini
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Cite Level 1

Yu Chen, Gabriel Granco, Yunfei Hou, Heather Macias, Frank A. Gomez. AI for Social Good Education at Hispanic Serving Institutions. Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series, v.3, 2024.
Yu Chen and Timothy Hill. (2023). AI for Social Good (AI4SG) Education in an Undergraduate Introductory MIS Course. The American Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2023.
Yu Chen, Leslie Jordan Albert, and Scott Jensen. Innovation Farm: Teaching Artificial Intelligence through Gamified Social Entrepreneurship in an Introductory MIS Course. Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education. 2021.

Level 2 — Prototyping (OpenAI Lab Series)

2024–present  ·  2026 version coming soon

Students build and deploy working AI prototypes using OpenAI tools, progressing from setup through full application deployment.

LabTopicRepository
Lab 1Setting up for OpenAI developmentLab1-openai-setup
Lab 2Generating text with OpenAILab2-Generating-Text
Lab 3Generating images with OpenAILab3-Generating-Images
Lab 4Audio transcriptionLab4-Audio-Transcription
Lab 5Prompt engineeringLab5-Prompt-Engineering
Lab 6Building a chatbotLab6-Chatbot
Lab 7Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Lab7-RAG
Lab 8Deploying an AI applicationLab8-Deployment

Cite Level 2 (OpenAI)

Yee Kit Chan*, Erica Lai*, Yu Chen. Teaching Undergraduate MIS Students Hands-on Generative AI Development Skills. Journal of Information Systems Education. 2026. *undergraduate student as co-authors.

Level 2 — Prototyping (IBM Watson Lab Series)

Used before 2024

These labs guided students through building conversational AI agents using IBM Watson Assistant, progressing from basic setup to complex dialog design.

LabTopicRepository
Lab 1Watson Assistant setup1_Watson_Assistant
Lab 2aImporting skills in Watson2a_ImportingSkills_Watson
Lab 2bBuilding a virtual assistant2b_Virtual_Assistant
Lab 3Chatbot to conduct interviews3_Chatbot_to_ConductInterviews
Lab 4Creating conversational flows4_Creating_Conversational_Flows
Lab 5Deploying a chatbot5_Deploying_Chatbot

Cite Level 2 (IBM Watson)

Yu Chen, Leslie J. Albert, and Heather Macias. (2023) Prototyping AI-Powered Social Innovation in an Undergraduate MIS course. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2023. Best Short Paper Nominee
Ellen Zheng, Yu Chen, Yee Kit Chan*, Erica Lai*, Leslie J. Albert. Developing Chatbots for Sustainability: Experiential Learning in an Undergraduate Management Information Systems (MIS) Course. The 15th Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) 2025. *undergraduate student as co-authors.
Gabriel Granco, Yu Chen, Ellen Zheng. What Students Learn When They Build an Artificial Intelligence Solution for Climate Change Action. The 15th Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) 2025.

Access on GitHub

The full curriculum materials are available on GitHub, including all lab repositories, the ideation mini project, and citation guides.

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