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Get a basic understanding of what genAI is, explore areas that might apply to your context, and get suggestions for how you can make genAI work for you

Start with AI

Guidelines

In the following section, you'll find a comprehensive overview of this course's content and its objectives. We encourage you to explore the modules as they are sequenced, or feel free to navigate directly to the topics that most capture your interest. To enhance your learning experience, many sections of this course include interactive elements. Look for the ico in the top right corner of the page to highlight such content. To fully participate and experiment, we suggest signing up for one of the widely used genAI tools, such as ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, or else. These tools are available for free; you only need to provide an email address to register and start exploring.

Guidelines

In the following section, you'll find a comprehensive overview of this course's content and its objectives. We encourage you to explore the modules as they are sequenced, or feel free to navigate directly to the topics that most capture your interest. To enhance your learning experience, many sections of this course include interactive elements. Look for the ico in the top right corner of the page to highlight such content. To fully participate and experiment, we suggest signing up for one of the widely used genAI tools, such as ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, or else. These tools are available for free; you only need to provide an email address to register and start exploring.

Optional quiz (before/after)

Index

6. Impacts on university

3. Points of focus

Objectives

5. Course crafting

7. Conclusion

4. Using genAI

2. What's genAI?

1. What's AI?

Introduction

Introduction

· Understand what genAI tools are · Be aware of questions raised by AI in academic context · Basic usage for teachers and students · Prompt! · Craft a course with AI · Understand impacts on Higher Education teaching

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Objectives

Perhaps the great understatement of our time is that technology is changing rapidly. According to a report by EY, 90% of business workers reported that their organizations are already using some form of generative AI (genAI). Unfortunately, educational systems usually change slower than most other systems in the world. Despite this mismatched change rate, higher education teachers and administrators can set their own pace by taking control of their learning and implementation of new technology systems. So while higher education professionals may have some time before the required implementation of genAI tools, learning more about genAI cannot wait and should start now.

Own Your Learning

Introduction

Introduction

Many professors find themselves staring into the jungle of resources about technological tools for education, especially genAI. Systems exist now where anyone in the world can create their own genAI assistants, create digital art, and even create video with just a few lines of text. Some professors are excited about genAI while others have debilitating AI anxiety, AI anxiety for anyone is understandable, after all, even Bill Gates was uncertain about genAI. Regardless of where professors find themselves on the genAI acceptance spectrum, there is no doubt that genAI is here to stay.

GenAI is Here to Stay

Introduction

Introduction

Before exploring these educational materials, take time for some personal reflection about your approach to genAI technology in general, and your goals as an educator. This reflection will help you stay focused on your learning, rather than succumbing to the overwhelming amount of information that is available. Generally, the creators of genAI think that for educators the benefits of these tools will greatly outweigh the drawbacks. With that fact in mind, the goal of these materials is to provide a basic understanding of what genAI is, explore areas that might apply to your context, and provide suggestions for how you can make genAI work for you. As you take these important steps towards educating yourself about genAI, we hope that your anxiety will dissipate and that you can find a place for these tools in your classroom.

Remain Reflective

Introduction

Introduction

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Would you like to find out what level of AI Anixiety you might already have? You can use the link to access the AIAS and receive a copy of your response. At the end of the educational materials, you can take this survey again and see if your responses have changed.

AI Anxiety

AI Anxiety Scale

AIAS

SKIP

Disclaimer

Types of AIs (narrow, general, super) A definition by the UNESCO/COMEST

1. What's AI?

human intelligence

generative AI

limited memory

machine reactive

1. What's AI? - Types of AI

Preliminary study on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence UNESCO/COMEST

Machines which are based on AI [...] are potentially capable of imitating or even exceeding human cognitive capacities, including sensing, language interaction, reasoning and analysis, problem solving, and even creativity.

What does it look like? How does it work? What can ChatGPT do? Generative AI tools

2. What's genAI ?

literature research

web search

quiz

social media

productivity

video

image

text

1. What's AI? - What genAI can do

Questions raised by AIFraud vs. plagiarismWhen to use ChatGPT?

3. Points of focus

Teachers StudentsHow to prompt?

4. Using genAI

Example of course crafted with AI assistanceUse cases

5. Course crafting

The assessment issueClasswork spectrum using AI (or not)Paths to considerWhat to teach and learn?What doesn’t change?

6. Impacts on university

Conclusion

Arthur C. Clarke

Any sufficiently advanced technologyis indistinguishable from magic.