Research Guides: Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in Higher Education: Implications for Teaching

Teaching

Generative Artificial Intelligence: Practical Uses in Education by Troy Heaps
Publication Date: 2024-April
Produced for educators who wish to find positive and productive ways to incorporate generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools into their work. This includes:
- using AI tools to develop courses, lesson plans, activities, assessments, and rubrics;
- leveraging AI tools to enhance existing in-class activities and assignments;
- teaching students how to engage with AI effectively, ethically, and responsibly;
- utilizing AI tools to efficiently complete administrative tasks.

The Curious Educator's Guide to AI: Strategies and Exercises for Meaningful Use in Higher Ed
by Kyle Mackie and Erin Aspenlieder, 2024, for the Paul R MacPherson Institute for Leadership, Innovation and Excellence in Teaching at McMaster University
Scared of AI? Don’t Be, Computer-Science Instructors Say
The 4 Stages of AI: A framework for thinking about the impact of artificial intelligence in higher education
How ChatGPT Could Help or Hurt Students With Disabilities
How to Use ChatGPT as an Example Machine Cult of Pedagogy. "This post is about one particular way that teachers can use ChatGPT to support kids’ learning: Using ChatGPT as an example machine. ChatGPT’s ability to quickly produce a lot of examples of different kinds of texts makes it uniquely suited to learning strategies like concept attainment, inductive learning, or one that we’ll focus on here called contrasting cases."
'An inflection point rather than a crisis': ChatGPT's implications for higher ed Scholars from John Hopkins and UPenn discuss the promising applications and potential pitfalls of ChatGPT and other AI tools
AI Text Generators and Teaching Writing: Starting Points for Inquiry "What do teachers who assign writing need to know about AI text generators? How should we change our pedagogical practices, given the recent advances in AI Large Language Models (LLMs) such as OpenAI's ChatGPT? How should teachers participate in shaping policies around these technologies in our departments, institutions, and society?"
What Educators — and Students — Can Learn From ChatGPT
ChatGPT Just Got Better. What Does That Mean for Our Writing Assignments? "An educator who tested the new GPT-4 before its release offers advice for faculty members on how to respond."
The nail in the coffin: How AI could be the impetus to reimagine education "Inexplicably, the first thing I asked ChatGPT to do for me was to write a grant for innovative classroom furniture. As I watched it crank out a serviceable first draft in seconds (easily improved further by what I’ll call 'tweaking prompts'), I thought to myself, 'We are so screwed. And I couldn’t be more excited.'"
AI Will Augment, Not Replace "Fearful that students will use language models to cheat, some have called for a return to oral exams, blue books or, worst of all, shifting to AI-powered proctoring services that track student’s eye moments and are trained on data that unfairly bias results against students of color. We should avoid such regressive measures. This fall, I taught several sections of first-year composition using GPT-3 powered tools. Let me calm your fears. Students, and likely you, will come to use this technology to augment the writing process, not replace it."
ChatGPT ‘a powerful tool for education if used correctly’
How to use generative AI creatively in Higher Education
How Will Artificial Intelligence Change Higher Ed? [12 Perspectives]
3 Prompt Engineering Lessons You Must Know: Knowledge, Practice, and Adaptation
The Mechanical Professor: I take a job I know well, and try to see how far I can automate it with AI
Articles on ChatGPT and Higher Education

Assessment

Coexisting with AI: Embedding Ethics in Education & Practice

Make AI Part of the Assignment

"...introduce a bit of intentional friction into your students’ use of AI and find ways for them to demonstrate their learning when using the technology. ...As part of the assignment, require students to critically evaluate how they used the technology and how it affected their writing process. That way, they aren’t just passively relying on AI-generated content but meaningfully assessing its role in their writing."

“Make AI Part of the Assignment,” by Marc Watkins, Chronicle of Higher Education, 2 October 2024

Citing AI

Audio Resources: Listen & Learn

How Artificial Intelligence is Impacting Higher Education
Cynthia Alby discusses how artificial intelligence (like ChatGPT) is impacting higher education. Supplemental resources linked.
ChatGPT - A Loaded Blessing In Disguise?
Is "the academic essay dead"? Or is ChatGPT, as some have contended, a tool for critical thinking that we should embrace as a new ally in teaching students? As Steve discusses, ChatGPT certainly is a revelation, but no one is really talking about why, and it might not be what you expect.
How to stop worrying and love (or at least live with) ChatGPT
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Wharton professor Ethan Mollick about his decision to embrace artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT in the classroom.