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Teaching in the Age of AI
We respect and value your professional judgment in deciding if and how to incorporate Generative AI (GenAI) into your teaching. As this technology continues to evolve, there are teaching and learning benefits and legitimate concerns at the institutional and societal levels.
Here are a few considerations as you decide on your generative AI policy for your courses:
Teaching AI Resources AI Guidelines for Syllabi Resources for Policy Approaches Policy Approaches for AI Syllabus Guidelines Supporting and Maintaining Scholarly Rigor and Academic Integrity Using AI to Enhance Your Teaching Practice
Creating and Navigating Your Approach to AI
Ensuring Student Success
Is your approach equipping our students with the requisite knowledge and evolving skill sets to be truly successful in the current workforce?
Safeguarding Academic Rigor
Is your approach ensuring that our students are learning the necessary material to meet learning outcomes and accreditation requirements? Please note that as of this writing, there is no single fool-proof way to detect the use of generative AI in academic writing. Some detection software may unfairly penalize students or be ineffective at detecting AI use.
Engaging and Assessing Students
Are you able or willing to integrate different approaches to authentically engage and assess the learning of your students?
Teaching Responsible AI Use
How can you teach and guide students to use GenAI responsibly and ethically, just as you did before for other instances of academic honesty and integrity?
Teaching in the Age of AI Resources
- Update Your Course Syllabus for chatGPT (article on Medium)
- How Students Are Actually Using Generative AI (article from Harvard Business Publishing)
- 77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Finds (article from Forbes)
- Teaching writing? Check out this recent journal article from faculty and students: “Writing with generative AI and human-machine teaming: Insights and recommendations from faculty and students”
AI Guidelines for Syllabi
Policy Approaches for AI Syllabus Guidelines
You might consider a variety of approaches for AI use in the classroom. It isn’t an all-or-nothing deal. Remember, you are making the decisions in line with your course objectives, what you, as an educator, decide is important for your students and the environment of your discipline and college. Here are some examples of approaches and sample language you can adopt (adapted from Champlain College). These are examples only. Feel free to adjust for your own courses.
Resources for Policy Approaches
Check out Dr. Leigh Shaw’s newly developed course policy on AI following completing the CETL’s Summer 2024 AI Learning Community.
Course Policy (PDF)
Compiled by WSU Online of how other universities have approached their syllabus policies.
Chat GPT & Other AI Tools Resources (Google Doc)
Supporting and Maintaining Scholarly Rigor and Academic Integrity
We recognize that the introduction of generative AI poses new and threatening challenges to scholarly rigor, academic integrity and effective student learning. We also understand that this technology is here, and we have the power to define if, and how it is used to ensure the maintenance of scholarly rigor and academic integrity.
Guardrails to assist you in the process:
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WSU’s Student Code of Conduct is your ultimate guardrail
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Explain and demonstrate your policies early
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Provide citation standards and guidance to students
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Use detection software thoughtfully in conjunction with your fair judgment
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Have a conversation with a student if their use of AI concerns you
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Use proactive pedagogical practices to encourage prosocial academic behaviors
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Supportive resources for scholarly rigor and academic integrity
Using AI to Enhance Your Teaching Practice
To help with the inevitable feelings of overwhelm with all these changes AI is bringing, remember that we are teachers who teach people, not content. We will be just like our students as we try to learn how and where this new technology fits in our practice.