Professor Joseph Feller, University College Cork
Anthropic, the creators of the Claude family of Large Language Models, have partnered with Professor Rick Dakan from Ringling College of Art and Design and Professor Joseph Feller from Cork University Business School, University College Cork, to build open educational resources exploring AI Fluency and its integration into higher education. The work is supported in part by the Higher Education Authority of Ireland through the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning.
The course is built around the AI Fluency Framework, which emerged out of Dakan and Feller’s research on how AI tools like Claude were transforming creative and innovative work. Their work highlights how emerging capabilities and novel modes of interaction create the need for new knowledge, skills, insights, and values. To address this, the AI Fluency Framework outlines four competencies (the 4Ds) – Delegation, Description, Discernment, and Diligence – that interact to enable effective, efficient, ethical, and safe human-AI collaboration.
“When we saw the framework, we immediately recognized a shared vision: helping people interact with AI effectively and responsibly, going beyond just ‘cool prompts,'” notes Maggie Vo, Head of Education at Anthropic. “Their approach offered exactly the kind of multidisciplinary perspective we believe is essential for navigating AI’s impact on society.”
The AI Fluency Framework has already informed undergraduate and postgraduate curricula and assessment at both Ringling College of Art and Design and at University College Cork, and formed the basis of staff training initiatives and community outreach events.
The course will be published as an Open Educational Resource (OER) under a creative commons license, making these valuable insights freely accessible to educators and learners worldwide. It will be hosted on the Anthropic Academy (Anthropic’s learning portal) and also on OpenCourses.ie.
A short version of the course, entitled AI Fluency: Framework and Foundations, is now available on the Anthropic Academy following its announcement at the Teaching and Learning with AI 2025 conference in Orlando, Florida. The full course will be published in Autumn 2025, with additional content exploring each of the 4Ds in more detail, as well as content focused on integrating AI Fluency thinking into higher education curricula, pedagogy, and assessment.
By bringing together expertise in AI systems, education, creativity, and business innovation, the course aims to equip people with mental models and core competencies that remain relevant regardless of which new AI models or tools emerge in the future.
Joseph Feller <jfeller@ucc.ie>
