Higher Ed

Introductions

ChatGPT and Education by Torrey Trust, Associate Professor, College of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (49 slides that cover the basics from “What is ChatGPT?”, to privacy concerns, to “What can ChatGPT do?”) 30 minute read
Chat GPT and Student Writing: Some Practical Reflections, blogpost by the APA. 5-10 min read
EDUCAUSE QuickPoll Results: Adopting and Adapting to Generative AI in Higher Ed, MArck McCormak, April 17, 2023. 10 min read.
For additional resources on the topic of AI, please visit this selection of videos, essays, and websites compiled by Lance Eaton, an instructional designer and Director of Digital Pedagogy for College Unbound. 10-30 min read.
Padlet about Generative AI and Higher Ed (updated continuously) Dr. Heather M. Brown, Instructional Designer. 10-30 min read.
Will ChatGPT Change How Professors Assess Learning? Becky Supiano, Chronicle of Higher Education, April 5, 2023. 10 min read
"Teaching and Learning with Artificial Intelligence Apps" -- S. Eaton & L. Anselmo, 2023, University of Calgary / Taylor Institute for Teaching & Learning. 10 min read
"How to Use Generative AI Creatively in Higher Education"-- B. Verhoven & V. Rana, 2023, London School of Economics & Political Science Impact Blog, 10 min read
"The Homework Apocalypse" -- Ethan Mollick, One Useful Thing (2023), 10 min read

Create Authentic Assessments to Bypass AI and to Engage Students

With each successive generation of students, teachers engage learners who grew up with different life experiences and technologies, and who will encounter different post-collegiate professional environments. The model of authentic assessment, first labelled as such by Grant Wiggins in 1989,states that authentic assessments must adapt to changing workplaces, civic environments, and social lives. How do we adapt our assessments to this new world of AI technologies? (Adapted from Montclair State University’s site for Assignments and Assessments)

Reshape assessments to simulate the contexts in which professional practitioners are “tested” in their creative workplaces, such as professional pitches to an industry partner or an exhibition or performance of their creative practice in a small space on campus (send us your examples!)
Reshape assessments to include the assessment of AI (test the AI’s response in comparison to student responses in class) and/or to innovate using AI (use AI to push the limits or streamline the workflow of an assignment)
Provide opportunities to rehearse, revise, and reshape material in the classroom

Sample Exercises/Assignments in the classroom for ChatGPT:

AI Productivity Tools for Faculty

Another way to “lean into” AI is to use it to streamline some of your work as a faculty member. While we don’t currently endorse the use of AI to grade student papers, there are a number of ways AI can expedite routine tasks and, with some gentle editing, produce content quickly.

101 Creative Ideas to Use AI in the classroom, includes a mix of productivity tools and in-class exercises crowd-sourced and then curated by a team of technology and education experts. 10-30 min read.
How to create a rubric with ChatGPT, Emily Horn, TCEA.org, June 8, 2023 - learn how to enter prompts that will generate rubrics that align with your course learning objectives (just replace “State Standards for 12th Grade” etc with your course’s Learning Goals and Objectives. (and here's another video tutorial on generating rubrics with ChatGPT). Takes 5-10 minutes to do with ChatGPT
Use AI to proofread and streamline the instructions you provide on assignments. Ask the Chatbot to “streamline and minimize jargon in the following instructions: blah blah” (it is astonishing how well this works - obviously with some edits to the final version - but it can reduce instruction length by 40% while retaining core expectations. It really works!). Additional prompt suggestions may be found here.
Use AI to correct errors in automatic captioning, and to generate a text-based script for your Panopto videos (go to settings within a Panopto video, copy and paste or download the captions, then enter them into the ChatBot with this prompt: "Correct the spelling and punctuation of this script while also removing the time stamps and composing it into paragraphs:…” (the results were great!) The final script should be proofread, but that won’t take long and it leaves you with a great accessibility tool for those students who would rather read than listen to your Panopto lectures (upload it as a PDF beneath your video).

AI and Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD)

The office of SSD is exploring ways that AI might be able to benefit our students with disabilities (and/or English as a Second Language). Stay on the alert for forthcoming updates in case we decide to accommodate certain uses of AI, and in the meantime explore the general pros and cons of using AI to overcome disabilities in this article from The Chronicle of Higher Education (membership required, or download the PDF here)

SSD already encourages students to use Grammerly, which is a simplistic form of LLM (large language model) predictive text AI. Consider asking your students with significant grammar challenges to use Grammerly, but always with the caveat that they should re-read and edit the end product. You may even ask them to provide a synopsis of what Grammerly improved, so that they can learn from the program’s enhancement of their writing. Note that the use of Grammerly is NOT cheating as it only corrects grammar, spelling, punctuation and does not suggest (or hallucinate) content.
Visually impaired students may begin using image-to-text generators to help them interpret visuals in your class(such as Mid-Journey, which now does image-to-text) or to read PDF documents out loud (OCR - optical character recognition), which is a great tool for both the visually impaired and those who learn by listening.
Hearing impaired students may also begin using Artificial Intelligence tools like speech-to-text in your classes. Be accommodating and work with them to incorporate these new technologies.

Resources, Tools, and Plugins for Canvas

ChatGPT in Education: Today, Tomorrow, & Looking Ahead, blog post from Instructure, the Developer of our LMS, Canvas
Critical AI Literacy and Critical Assessment, module for Canvas, from the Canvas Commons, authored by Anna Mills
AI with Boundaries: The Right Way to Manage Chat GPT and its Potential Disruption of Higher Ed, a recorded live webinar from Instructure.

How students may already be using AI

We know that students are using AI already (at school, at work, for fun in their social lives...), so it's best to understand how they're using it.

"I'm A Student. You Have No Idea How Much We're Using ChatGPT" -- O. Terry, (2023), The Chronicle of Higher Education, 5 min read
"Don’t Use A.I. to Cheat in School. It’s Better for Studying." -- Brian X. Chen, New York Times (2023), 5 min read

Discipline Specific Resources on AI (suggestions welcome)

CTVA: How Artificial Intelligence Helps (and Hurts) Filmmaking, blogpost by Jim Donnelly, senior writer and editor, Massiv.io
Photography: Adobe guidelines for submitting Generative AI Content to their Stock Photography Pool (includes information on rights, ethics, model releases)
Journalism: AI Tools for Journalists presented by the Society of Professional Journalists
Photography: AI image wins top photo contest, raising questions about the difference between photography and photographic images made by AI
Writing: How to embrace AI in writing assignments
Marketing: AI in marketing classes
Art: "An Art Professor Says A.I. Is the Future. It's the Students Who Need Convincing." - Z. Small (2023), New York Times
"Teaching Writing with Generative AI," leonfurze.com, 2023.
Design: AI and Design Education, by Tom May (10 July, 2023), Creative Boom.
Design, Business, Communication, Interactive Arts & Multimedia: "19 Uses for AI in Product Development," Delve, 2023. Collaboratively written piece by two industry practitioners (industrial designer and design researcher). Covers a wide range of uses for AI from Insights & Strategy to Design to Engineering. Useful for students from BUSE, COMM, IAM, DESIGN, and more.
All: Free (or Free-ish) Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools That Are Useful in Higher Education, 2023.Would strongly consider including this which organizes the tools, especially those that are free or have free trials. AI tools organized by subject (free or "free-ish").pdf Provided by Dr. Anne Arendt, Utah Valley University. Useful potentially for faculty and students.