University of Wisconsin-Stout studies Ethical AI Use and TILT-based Teaching to Prepare Students for Industry Demands.

The University of Wisconsin-Stout is organizing research to ensure that assignments fit with the Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT) model and explore the possible use of generative AI. The research aims to better understand the challenges and effects of using artificial intelligence, even as the technology continues to grow across business and industry. According to the 2025 McKinsey Global Survey on AI, 78% of respondents stated that their organizations use AI in at least one business function.

According to Assistant Professor Cami Banger, Stout's program director for business information technology and digital marketing technology, the university's decision to look into teaching students how to use this technology responsibly and ethically was probably inspired by data showing that people were using it increasingly. Also, understanding how to use it or what it can be used for to solve a business requirement is part of the research, and this may also apply to businesses.

Banger studies the use of AI in business technology, higher education, and instruction. Also, in a study named Reimagining Assignment Design. In a primary research of AI-assisted TILT implementation, she studies the use of generative AI, a technology that creates new content such as text, graphics, audio, and more, in a Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT) structure. Banger teaches students in a professional development course named AI Implementation Strategy, which educates them on how to create AI strategies for different organizational structures.

Banger's Research serves as an example of how the technology is being explored at Stout, another research project uses machine learning in manufacturing and engineering to solve complex scientific and engineering issues. Another test of GenAI's abilities compared poetry written by humans and poetry generated by AI. Also, one of the things Stout is focusing on as the research of AI progresses is making sure that a lot of analysis is being done on AI governance.