November Focus on A.I. (Artificial Intelligence/Academic Integrity) in Education
Whether you are concerned about misuse of AI tools, wanting to explore ways to make assessments more AI-proof, looking for ways to introduce AI into the classroom to model best practices, or hoping to add it as a tool in your own tool belt for course material creation, we have something to offer you this month!
“Despite popularity, six in 10 students consider generative AI cheating. Canadian students are looking for more resources and guidelines around generative AI, saying it has become a critical skill for the future.” (Source: KPMG)
News headlines like the one above have covered the media for months, speaking of ethical and unethical positions of the use of AI in the classroom. Whether we love or hate this technology, the reality is it has infiltrated our classrooms and reeked proverbial havoc with our assessment development. The surge of AI technology, available at our students’ fingertips, has created complex obstacles and opportunities to evaluate and test student’s knowledge, skill, and competency.
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Professional Development and Learning Opportunities
We kick off the month on November 2nd with our Artificial Intelligence Community of Practice (CoP). Join in as Jessica Joy leads an in-person and virtual conversation about AI. Bring your thoughts, woes, and wins to share with and learn from others.
On November 23rd Jessica will also lead us in a session titled Forward Thinking Assessments, which helps us to reflect on artificial intelligence, academic integrity, and authentic assessment.
Also this month (Event Details Coming Soon!), Nathan Abourbih will offer an encore performance of his session, Harnessing AI For Effective Course Development: A Hands-On Workshop. Faculty will explore the art of prompt engineering to learn how to use AI to craft a variety of course materials like syllabi, lesson plans, assessments, quiz questions, and more.
Finally, you can round out your PD with a great asynchronous resource: AI Training 101. At your own pace and time navigate through Matthew Schonewille’s, Business Professor at Fanshawe College in the Lawrence Kinlin School of Business, website which offers a series of free education and AI tools. The course is free for educators, but you must register using your Cambrian email address. Register here or click Login > Register from the menu at the top of the AI Training 101 Homepage.
Additional Online Resources
- Oregon State University’s Artificial Intelligence Tools: This site includes “Bloom’s Taxonomy Revisited”, which provides some insight into what tasks AI is capable of, and which are uniquely human.
- They also have ideas on how you can redesign assessments, including a page on Practical Strategies, Recommendations, and Samples.
- University College London’s Designing Assessments for an AI-enabled World: includes six changes you can make to your assessments to limit inappropriate use of generative AI tools. Their videos include specific tips and strategies on how to revise exam questions, essays, multiple-choice questions, and more.
- University of Sydney’s What to do about assessments if we can’t out-design or out-run AI? This page conceptualizes AI use in the classroom as being one of two “lanes”. The first lane discusses ways to get students to complete work in-class to avoid AI use. The other is to reformat assessments to get students to use and evaluate AI tools within their work.
- Durham College also has a great guide for adapting assessments to mitigate inappropriate use of AI as part of their Generative AI website.
- University of Guelph’s Digital Learning Commons has a resource called Teaching in the Context of AI, which includes a Tool for Determining Allowable Uses of AI with Writing Assignments that faculty can adapt and share with students.
- The AI Assignment Library from University of North Dakota includes examples of real assignments submitted by faculty designed to advance student learning in the context of generative AI.
- 101 Creative Ideas to use AI in Education is a crowdsourced collection of creative ways to use AI. Think outside the box and consider some of these ideas for assessments, learning activities, and more.
- Both of the Pressbooks below include information about having conversations with students and ideas for redesigning assessments focusing on Generative AI.
- This Generative AI Resource List is an online repository of articles, courses, directories, and more. You can also submit resources to share and the list is continually updated.
- Last month, Cambrian faculty across schools came together for the Authentic Assessment Panel to share examples of how they are creating authentic assessments to mimic real-world skills from students. Review the recording for more information on interdisciplinary simulations, Harvard business case studies, and a virtual trade show, all conducted by Cambrian faculty.
- If you’re looking for more information on Authentic Assessments, University of Illinois – Chicago has a page outlining the different types, explaining their impact, and how to create authentic assessments.
- Brock University also has a page on Designing Assessments to Mitigate the Use of AI Writing Tools. This page includes strategies based on faculty experiences and research, to address the use of AI in assessments and assignments including approaches for mitigating AI use.