AI in teaching
AI in Higher Education: Pedagogy and practice
This page contains my developing notes on the use of AI/Chat GPT in my own practice. Broadly speaking there are opportunities and potential threats from the way students can engage with such tools and the same probably goes for a wide range of administrative tasks in Higher Education practice.
How Students can use AI in their work
Starting an assessment: Ask AI to produce an essay plan for a topic, ask AI what the critical analysis of a particular theory is.
Middle period of producing an assessment: Ask AI to critically analyse a topic, ask AI to improve the quality of submitted text.
Ending an assessment: Ask AI to critically analyse a topic to ensure there is higher level content
Help in writing a personal statement.
Ask AI to produce an interview guide for a semi-structured interview in a study that uses qualitative research methods.
Ask AI to critically analyse a particular theory.
Ask AI to produce a plan for a piece of assessed work.
How Academic Staff can use AI in their work
Learn how to use it to help students navigate their own use (benefits and pitfalls)
Use it to signpost to analysis on topics
To produce short passages of introductory text for VLE pages.
Produce outline meeting agenda
Further Reading
Bath Uni's briefing page on AI in HE - https://teachinghub.bath.ac.uk/assessment-and-feedback/academic-integrity/chatgpt-and-artifical-intelligence/
Bournemouth Uni briefing page on AI - https://microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk/flie/2023/01/30/artificial-intelligence-apps-and-teaching-and-learning/
UCL resource for students, "Engaging with AI in your education and assessment" https://www.ucl.ac.uk/students/exams-and-assessments/assessment-success-guide/engaging-ai-your-education-and-assessment
Edinburgh Napier University QuickGuide - https://staff.napier.ac.uk/services/dlte/Documents/15%20Artificial%20Intelligence,%20Student%20Learning%20and%20Assessment%20Quick%20Guide.pdf
QAA briefs members on artificial intelligence - https://www.qaa.ac.uk/news-events/news/qaa-briefs-members-on-artificial-intelligence-threat-to-academic-integrity
WonkHE (March, 2023) An avalanche is coming this time. https://wonkhe.com/blogs/an-avalanche-really-is-coming-this-time/
ISTE. Artificial Intelligence in Education: Putting Educators and Students in the Driver's Seat https://www.iste.org/areas-of-focus/AI-in-education
Recommended Tools for using AI
ChatGPT
Chatpdf
Bing
Notion