Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI

Many faculty who are embracing AI find creative ways to incorporate it into their classrooms with the understanding that AI may be a part of future professions. For example, OBU's Dr. Malcolm Rigsby had his sociology students use ChatGPT or another text-generating AI to aid in various steps in writing a literature review. Students then fact-checked and edited the AI responses and reflected on the process.

However, other faculty are struggling to find a place to start. To get started with ChatGPT or another AI tool begin using and playing with it! Find different opportunities to use the AI tool in your research or personal life. Become familiar with the tool's uses and limitations. As you explore various tools, you may discover ways in which they can be useful for your students, too. 

Educators are using AI tools in many ways:

• Creating lesson plans
• Developing discussion and review questions
• Generating writing prompts
• Provide examples
• Designing rubrics

Generative AI can do more than just write essays. Students may find generative AI tools helpful with:

• Building essay outlines
• Asking for writing edits and suggestions
• Practicing peer review feedback
• Personalized learning
• Research assistance
• Language translations

Recommended Resources

• Is an App Writing Your Students' Essay for Them? 5 Smart Ways to Encourage Academic Integrity from Turnitin by Meghan Mathis
• ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom Today by Kevin Yee, Kirby Whittington, Erin Doggette, and Laurie Uttich
• ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence: A Lesson on Assessment Design and Talking with Students about Academic Integrity by Christina Moore and Crystal VanKooten, Oakland University
• Make Any Assignment ChatGPT Resistant (Infographic) from Sovorel by Brent Anders
• Tackling ChatGPT Head On: As Student Assignments from OSU's Center for Teaching and Learning
• Considerations for Using AI in the Classroom from the L&S Instructional Design Collaborative, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Teaching in the Age of AI by Michael Coley, Paige Snay, Joe Bandy, John Bradley, and Ole Molvig, Vanderbilt University
• AI Text Generators and Teaching Writing: Starting Points for Inquiry by Anna Mills, Canada College
• Pedagogical Strategies and Practices: ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence from Montclair State University
• Generative AI in the Classroom from the Center for Integrated Professional Development, Illinois State University

The following graphic comes from Matt Miller at DitchThatTextbook.com. (More details and the full text of the image can be found at the link.)

• AI and Assessment from Monash University, offers suggestions for modifying assignment prompts, alternative assessments, targeting higher-order thinking, and using formative and alternative assessments.
• Assignment Design Strategies for Utilizing AI and Ed Tech to Increase Student Participation from The Online Learning Consortium's Canvas site, aims to "ChatGPT proof" a range of assignment types while also providing ideas for using a range of technology platforms and apps. 
• Digitally Enhanced Education Webinars (YouTube) from the University of Kent, has monthly sessions addressing GenerativeAI. They've also created short AI-focused sessions featuring students, instructors, and academic technologists.
• 101 Creative Ideas to Use AI in Education posted by Sandra Abegglen, "This open crowdsourced collection presents a rich tapestry of our collective thinking in the first months of 2023 stitching together potential alternative uses and applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that could make a difference and create new learning, development, teaching and assessment opportunities."
• AI Pedagogy Project from metaLAB@Harvard, is a three-part guide "meant to provide an introduction to the current AI tools that are relevant for use in educational settings, and to demystify some of the hype surrounding AI. It will help you consider whether you might integrate AI into your teaching, and how to do so responsibly."
• US DOE: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning: Insights and Recommendations from the U.S. Department of Education
• AI Educator Tools provides a variety of free and pay-to-use tools for creating assessments, rubrics, lesson plans, prompts, presentations, and quizzes, etc.  
• Futurepedia is a AI tools directory.
• Teaching: Rethinking Research Papers, and Other Responses to ChatGPT by Beth McMurtrie
• 5 Ways ChatGPT Can Make Your Job as a Teacher Easier by Dr. Kelly Keane (Loyola University)
• 19 Ways to Use ChatGPT in Your Classroom by Larry Ferlazzo
• Using ChatGPT for Assignments: Tips & Examples (Scribbr) by Jack Caulfield and Tobias Solis
• Teaching with AI from OpenAI, this guide for teachers using ChatGPT includes creating prompts, lists ways teachers are using the AI tool, how ChatGPt works and its limitations, and the efficacy of AI detectors.
• Bloom's Taxonomy in the Age of GenerativeAI from Oregon State University
• 4 Steps to Help You Plan for ChatGPT in Your Classroom by Flower Darby
• Adapting College Writing for the Age of Large Language Models Such as ChatGPT: Some Next Steps for Educators by Anna Mills and Lauren Goodlad
• Incorporating AI in Teaching: Practical Examples for Busy Instructors by Daniel Stanford