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Carry on Teaching with UA’s Artificial Intelligence Teaching Enhancement Initiative

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How might your teaching be amplified by generative artificial intelligence? Katherine Chiou (Anthropology) and Lawrence Cappello (History) lead the Artificial Intelligence Teaching Enhancement Initiative, which answers this question. The initiative provides ready-to-use AI resources to be used to augment your teaching and assignments. Professors Capello and Chiou are curating an array of resources on the ethical, responsible, and inclusive use of AI in the classroom, too. Their aim is to harness AI to stimulate student engagement, and to better prepare […]

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Guidelines for Faculty in Dealing with the Use of Generative AI Tools

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Discussions about the uses and misuses of generative artificial intelligence entered the broader public discourse of the United States in November 2022. The University of Alabama offers a considered response to these discussions and the issues they present to the campus community. To learn more about guidelines from the Office of Academic Affairs, please see the Guidelines for Faculty in Dealing with the Use of Generative AI Tools on this site hosted by our Office for Academic Affairs.

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Speed ∝ Quality ∝ Cost – Can Any Ed-Tech Idea Avoid the Iron Triangle?

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by Nathan Loewen, Department of Religious Studies Learning might be the wicked problem in higher education. It’s inescapable. So when a headline like “Can Artificial Intelligence Make Grading Fairer and Faster?” is published in a leading ed-tech publication, people notice. The article was about a platform called Gradescope, whose tagline is “Grade Faster. Teach better.” Anyone teaching large-enrollment courses would want to know about this! The headline on page B8 from the April 13, 2018 issue of The Digital Campus […]

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