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Artificial Intelligence
Interest in generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools and how they might impact on teaching and learning has grown considerably since the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in late 2022. One can easily feel overwhelmed by the constant stream of AI-related articles circulating the Internet.
Review the that students must adhere to in their academic work. For violations, instructors should utilize the form for additional guidance.
Individual faculty members may craft specific policies relating to the use of such AI tools for their courses as makes sense for how and what learning looks like in those courses. Find sample course policies on the final page of this handout.
Because AI is so prevalent, the course design should address these concerns in advance. Teaching and learning in the era of generative AI does not need to be all about damage control. Plagiarism and ethics concerns are real, but on the other hand, the advance of generative AI gives us a special opportunity to focus on the challenges of teaching and work out strong solutions. Generative AI itself can be a learning tool–as anyone who gets into the tool and starts inputting queries and studying the output knows. Your synapses are firing as you write and read the rapidly generated text. It is fun, and you are likely wide awake, judging, speculating, disagreeing, agreeing, and doing all those things that happen when an engaged reader encounters text. These potentials can be used in the online classroom.
Because AI is so prevalent, the course design should address these concerns in advance. Teaching and learning in the era of generative AI does not need to be all about damage control. Plagiarism and ethics concerns are real, but on the other hand, the advance of generative AI gives us a special opportunity to focus on the challenges of teaching and work out strong solutions. Generative AI itself can be a learning tool–as anyone who gets into the tool and starts inputting queries and studying the output knows. Your synapses are firing as you write and read the rapidly generated text. It is fun, and you are likely wide awake, judging, speculating, disagreeing, agreeing, and doing all those things that happen when an engaged reader encounters text. These potentials can be used in the online classroom.
Specific Suggestions
ChatGPT and similar tools rely on available text—text that is not behind firewalls or so obscure or recent that it has yet to be added to the tool’s corpus. These suggestions are built on this design characteristic.
AI as a Source
Official citation guidelines continue to update for correctly citing generative AI. For more details, check out APA’s “” and MLA’s “”.
Selected Resources
These resources were provided by the Center for Teaching and Learning.
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