Research Guides: Artificial Intelligence: AI Resources for Educators

Resources for Educators

Teaching with AI by José Antonio Bowen; C. Edward Watson
ISBN: 1421449234
Publication Date: 2024-04-30
How AI is revolutionizing the future of learning and how educators can adapt to this new era of human thinking. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the way we learn, work, and think. Its integration into classrooms and workplaces is already underway, impacting and challenging ideas about creativity, authorship, and education. In this groundbreaking and practical guide, teachers will discover how to harness and manage AI as a powerful teaching tool.

Talking About Generative AI by Sidney Dobrin
This free guide for educators provides practical information about Generative AI.
Licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND.
AI for Better Basics by Paul Matthews
How busy teachers can use AI to benefit every learner in their classroom. (26 pages)

Instructors as Innovators: a Future-focused Approach to New AI Learning Opportunities, With Prompts by Ethan R. Mollick and Lilach Mollick
This paper explores how instructors can leverage generative AI to create personalized learning experiences for students that transform teaching and learning. We present a range of AI-based exercises that enable novel forms of practice and application including simulations, mentoring, coaching, and co-creation.
AI Pedagogy Project
The AI Pedagogy Project, created by the metaLAB (at) Harvard within the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, is a collection of educator-created resources and assignments to support "informed, intentional decisions about the role of AI in the classroom."

GenAI Detection Tools, Adversarial Techniques, and Implications for Inclusivity in Higher Education
Results of this March 2024 study by Perkins, et. al. evaluating the effectiveness of six Generative AI detection tools indicated "accuracy limitations and the potential for false accusation." However, these tools "may have a role in supporting student learning and maintaining academic integrity when used in a non-punitive manner." Additionally, these results "underscore the need for a combined approach to addressing the challenges posed by GenAI in academia to promote the responsible and equitable use of these emerging technologies. The study concludes that the current limitations of AI text detectors require a critical approach for any possible implementation in [higher education] and highlight possible alternatives to AI assessment strategies.
Licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND.

Updating the AI Assessment Scale
Updated tool for AI assessment transparency. "The original AIAS and its subsequent formal version (published in JUTLP) represents a moment in time where educational institutions across the world were reaching for something to help with the immediate problems of AI, such as the perceived threat to academic integrity..." (2024)

Prompt Library - Harvard Business Publishing's recent edition of The Faculty Lounge shared an AI prompt library, published by Wharton educators Ethan Mollick and Lilach Mollick on their website More Useful Things: AI Resources.

TCC Employee Professional Development Opportunity - Register for GenAI for Educators in the TCC Learn Center! Contact arturo.ozuna@tccd.edu for more information.

Talking with Students About Generative AI

Including a Syllabus Statement

Include an AI Statement in the Instructor Course Requirements (ICR) that specifies what use of AI is and is not permitted along with how and which AI detection tools will be used.

More resources:

Classroom Policies for AI Generative Tools (a crowdsourced collection curated by Lance Eaton)
Texas Tech University
University of Arizona (University of Arizona Libraries, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License)
University of Texas at Austin
Torrey Trust's "Five Tips for Writing Academic Integrity Statements in the Age of AI" in Faculty Focus

Starting the Conversation

Colorado State University's Institute for Teaching and Learning offers three steps for Talking to Students About Generative AI:

Acknowledge that ChatGPT (and its AI-writing cousins) are quickly becoming part of our lives. Feel free to share how you feel about those programs (the good, the bad, the strange, the exciting, etc.).
Clarify, in certain terms, when it is NOT OKAY to use those services in your class or on your coursework. Help them understand that using ChatGPT on writing or work that they will submit for credit will result in an academic misconduct issue.
If there are any acceptable uses, explain those for your students. However, clarify that just because you haven’t forbidden a use, doesn’t mean that it’s okay. In other words, if you haven’t told them that they can use it in a certain way, they can’t use it.

"Online Students Perceptions of AI" - Oregon State University Study

Online Students Perceptions of AI Report (2024)
The goal of this study was to survey students taking online courses at Oregon State University about their perceptions, understanding, and use of generative AI tools.