Generative AI: Resources for Faculty
AI and Teaching
- Academic Affairs Guidance for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools
- Data Science Institute’s workshops series
- The Data Science Institute also posts recordings of most of their workshops on their YouTube channel.
- Vanderbilt Initiative on the Future of Learning & Generative AI
The Brightspace and Instructional Technology Support team will also host a workshop on Generative AI’s Impact on Teaching and Learning on Tuesday, September 12. For more information and how to register, visit www.vanderbilt.edu/brightspace/workshops.
From Vanderbilt University's "Guidance on AI Detection and Why We're Disabling Turnitin's AI Detector" (August 26, 2023)
- From AI to A+: Prepare Your Students for Using ChatGPT and other AI
- AI @ WMU: A Deep Dive into the Resources
- AI, Higher Ed, & Some Thoughts for Faculty (VIDEO)
- Student-developed resource from the University of Sydney
In The Chronicle’s pages, you can find a primer on AI and teaching, advice on how to prepare for ChatGPT in your classroom, and tips on how to devise “compelling” writing assignments in an AI era.
- This explainer from Ted Chiang shows how ChatGPT is the equivalent of, as he put it, “a blurry JPEG of the web.”
- John Warner assesses its impact on teaching and learning here, and Zak Cohen’s slightly more optimistic assessment is also helpful. Warner also appeared on a recent episode of the “Teaching in Higher Ed” podcast, where he further explored “teaching writing in an age of AI.”
- An important corrective to the drama can be found in Ian Bogost’s examination in The Atlantic, “ChatGPT Is Dumber Than You Think.”
- In New York Magazine, John Herrman analyzed the shifting nature of ChatGPT, which could be interpreted as a decline in the tool’s effectiveness, an impression perhaps confirmed by a Stanford research team’s finding that ChatGPT went from producing correct responses to math problems at a high of 90 percent to down to a rate of less than 3 percent in recent months.
- Higher-ed futurist Bryan Alexander has compiled the most comprehensive online list I’ve seen of resources (both text and multimedia) on ChatGPT and AI tools.
- Finally, it’s clear that purported “AI cheating detectors” don’t work, and are an insufficient answer to the ChatGPT “problem.”
From The Chronicle of Higher Education's "Should You Add an AI Policy to Your Syllabus" (July 31, 2023)
- Should You Add an AI Policy to Your Syllabus?
- I'm a Student; You Have No Idea How Much We're using ChatGPT
- Why I’m Excited About ChatGPT
- Teaching AI literacy in higher education
- Reject Automated Grading of Student Writing
- Write Your Own Syllabus
- Laura's Repository of AI Information
Resources from the Tarrant County College Connect Summer Webinar Series
- General Prompting Guide for Educators
- AI Sample Activities
- AI Prompting Guide for Online Course Design
- Source: AI in Education Google Group
Instructional Uses of AI
- “Peer Review” – SERC Pedagogic Service
- “Planning and Guiding In-Class Peer Review” – Center for Teaching and Learning, Washington University in St. Louis
- ChatGPT goes to Harvard
- Learning With AI:
- Learning With AI resource sheet (like blogs and videos)
- Learning With AI strategy sheet (like assignments)
- A Semester With Generative AI
- 4 Steps to Help You Plan for ChatGPT in Your Classroom; Why you should understand how to teach with AI tools — even if you have no plans to actually use them.
- Creative Ideas To Use AI In Education (downloadable book)
- What to Know About ChatGPT’s New Code Interpreter Feature
- Graphs, maps and data analyses? Now ChatGPT can do even more.
- Assigning AI: Seven Approaches for Students, with Prompts
- How Well Would ChatGPT Do in My Course? I Talked to It to Find Out
- Our Obsession with Cheating is Ruining Our Relationship with Students
AI Policies/Statements
- A Guide to Generative AI Policy Making
- Joint MLA/CCC Statement
- AI Statements
- 'Everybody is cheating': Why this teacher has adopted an open ChatGPT policy
AI Detection
New Developments in Detecting ChatGPT Generated Text
- “A college student created an app that can tell whether AI wrote an essay” – National Public Radio
- “Turnitin announces AI writing detector and AI writing resource center for educators” – LibraryTechnology.org
AI-Detection App – GPTZero
- “A college student created an app that can tell whether AI wrote an essay” – National Public Radio
- View the GPTZero website
Ethical Issues
- Essential Considerations for Addressing the Possibility of AI-Driven Cheating, Part 1
- AI and Academic Integrity
- Citation Justice
- Ethics and Generative AI
- AI’s evolution sparks questions about cheating
- How to Avoid the Ethical Nightmares of Emerging Technology
General AI Resources
- The ChatGPT revolution is another tech fantasy; Generative AI will enrich investors and be deployed against everyone else
- International Journal of Emerging and Disruptive Innovation in Education: VISIONARIUM
- Institute for Experiential AI
- The Writer's Revolt Against AI Companies
- Considerations in Scholarly Publishing
- AI Eroding AI?
- Defining the Impact of the Metaverse in Higher Education (webcast)
- Caught Off Guard By AI
- ‘Not for Machines to Harvest’: Data Revolts Break Out Against A.I.
- 25 Inspiring A.I. Thought Leaders you Should Follow Today
- 7 AI Thought Leaders & Influencers To Follow In 2023
- An Issue of Critical Theory About AI
- It’s Not Just Our Students — ChatGPT Is Coming for Faculty Writing
- Will ChatGPT Ruin or Improve Higher Education? by EAB
- ChatGPT and the Hidden Bias of Language Models
- What are We Doing About AI Essays:
- ChatGPT: Understanding the new landscape and short-term solutions
- The nail in the coffin: How AI could be the impetus to reimagine education
- An inside look at the student disengagement crisis
- Distracted: Why students can't focus and what you can do about it
- ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue
- What might ChatGPT mean for higher education?
- ChatGPT: Understanding the new landscape and short-term solutions
- AI bot ChatGPT stuns academics with essay-writing skills and usability
- Here’s What To Know About OpenAI’s ChatGPT—What It’s Disrupting And How To Use It
- AI Will Augment, Not Replace
- The Forces That Are Shaping the Future of Higher Education
- AI Text Generators and Teaching Writing: Starting Points for Inquiry
- How do we prevent learning loss due to AI text generators?
- AI Text Generators: Sources to Stimulate Discussion among Teachers
- Teaching with Text Generation Technologies
- AI and the Future of the Essay