Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Resources to help faculty understand, navigate, and use AI in teaching and learning.

• OWU AI LibGuide
  This LibGuide provides a general introduction to generative AI tools, a breakdown of the ethical considerations for using these tools, resources for faculty and students on how to use these tools responsibly, and guidelines for citing the use of AI tools in MLA, APA, and Chicago styles. This resource will be updated frequently as the nature of generative AI tools continues to evolve.
• Council for Independent Colleges' AI Ready Network program
  If you are interested in joining some of the faculty-oriented sessions, please fill out the CIC AI Ready sign-up form.

How to Talk With Students About AI and Learning

In this podcast Marc Watkins advocates we spend time talking with students about the learning outcomes and how some uses of AI support their ability to meet the learning outcomes and some uses, what he terms "lazy AI," do the thinking for them in ways that prevent them from meeting the learning outcomes.

Cummings, Monroe, and Watkins created a DEER framework for integrating AI use in first-year writing in ways that increase critical thinking.

At OWU, our connections with students are central to their learning experiences, and Mark Watkins views our approach to AI with our students from a lens of student-faculty relationships and argues that when we assume students don't want to learn and instead use AI to cheat, we are ruining our relationships with our students. If, after our conversations with students about AI and our learning outcomes, a student cheats with AI, our conversation, Watkins argues, is about the break in trust more than a break of rules.

• Excerpt of AI Prompts from 'Teaching: A Spell Book'
  Cynthia Alby has ready-made AI prompts that are useful for a wide variety of teaching purposes, from your own planning to student supplemental support.
• Excerpt of Recommended Reading and Listening
  This is Cynthia Alby's list of recommended reading/listening on AI issues in Higher Education.
• AI Hacks for Educators (PDF)
  This is an online book by Kevin Yee, Laurie Uttich, Eric Main, and Liz Giltner. It provides information and generative AI prompts for teachers on a variety of topics.

AI Articles

• 'Chronicle of Higher Education' article on using AI tools to develop critical-thinking skills – August 2024
  "This week, I describe one professor's experience teaching with AI and point you to resources to help prime your teaching for fall."
• 'Chronicle of Higher Education' article on physical/social/mental effects of AI (PDF) – July 2024
  "The most straightforward way to construct a comprehensive accounting of the human experience of AI is to consider it with reference to three different aspects of our selves: the physical, the cognitive, and the social selves. AI is changing our experience in all of these categories."
• Engaging Students and Staff in AI (PDF) – 2024
  "This paper explores the possible advantages of AI, sets out a model for conducting AI in [Higher Education] and works through an example of its application to promote inclusivity in a successful Institute of Education (IoE). The example is explored through the different perspectives of those involved in running the process; an educational developer, three student researchers and two IoE academic staff."