Higher Education

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ChatGPT is changing the face of higher education. While some experts and faculty are bringing attention to “just how existential AI is to higher education,” others are cautioning that the story is far more nuanced.

Is using AI for brainstorming cheating? Should ChatGPT be banned from the classroom, or is that ignoring a cultural shift toward using AI in everyday life? What happens when ChatGPT and GPT-4 inevitably evolve again, and any policies you’ve made have become obsolete? Should students be involved in policies around AI?

We here at the Chronicle of Higher Education have been covering ChatGPT and how faculty are either banning it or adopting it into their teaching.

We’ve got four experts with us who will be answering your questions today:

I'm Anna Mills, an English Instructor and curator of the collection “AI Text Generators and Teaching Writing: Starting Points for Inquiry," (found here) a resource of the Writing Across the Curriculum Clearinghouse. As a consultant for OpenAI, I had the chance to test GPT-4 before its release, and wrote about it for The Chronicle of Higher Education in "ChatGPT Just Got Better. What Does That Mean for Our Writing Assignments?" Ask me anything about AI and writing in higher ed, from how we can teach critical AI literacy to how we might distinguish student writing from AI to whether and how we should incorporate AI into our pedagogy.

I'm Brenda McDermott (she/her), Instructor and Disability Services Professional. I’m part of the interdisciplinary team examining the ethics of artificial intelligence (here) at the University of Calgary, Canada. I’m interested in how Generative AI can both challenge and reaffirm systemic barriers for equity-deserving groups. Ask me anything about AI and ethics, from how societal bias is embedded in these tools to how we can consider AI as another form of assistive technology.

We’re Beth McMurtrie and Beckie Supiano, senior writers at the Chronicle of Higher Education, where we report on teaching and learning. We have written about various aspects of ChatGPT in the classroom, from dealing with cheating among students to using AI as a time saver in course design to creating alternate forms of assessments. Ask us anything about what your peers in higher education are thinking about, and planning for, as ChatGPT and other AI becomes part of everyday life.

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