Teaching & Learning Center: Generative AI Resources

General AI Resources

On this page, you'll find resources that will help you understand AI, how it will impact the classroom, and ideas you can use to embrace and harness AI in your teaching and learning. Information on AI is published at lightning speed, so please help build this page. If you come across items of interest, please forward them to Bryan Saums (email bryan.saums@volstate.edu) for possible listing here.

How Can I Use / Explore AI Right Now?

• TLDR AI
  • AI, ML, and Data Science in 5 Minuntes. Get a free, daily newsletter with the latest in AI, machine learning, and data science.

• Future Tools
  • As of April 18, 2023, there are over 1,400 AI resources on this page...and the list is growing. Explore AI tools in music, writing, videography, image creation and manipulation, voice manipulation, and a host of other areas. Browsing through this resource will give you an inkling of the breadth and depth of AI in virtually all creative fields.
• ChatGPT
  • ChatGPT is not the first AI app, but it's the one that started all the buzz in higher ed starting in late 2022. ChatGPT is a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence. Give it a try!
  • To get started: How to Use ChatGPT.
• GPTZero
  • GPTZero is a popular app used to detect writing generated by ChatGPT. 
• Bing Image Creator
  • Image Creator AI applications like Bing Image Creator use text to produce AI images.
  • Here's a helpful article from ZDNet: How to use Bing Image Creator.

What is AI?

• IBM. "What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?" IBM.com. Accessed April 3, 2023. https://www.ibm.com/topics/artificial-intelligence.
• McCarthey, John. "What is AI? / Basic Questions." Professor John McCarthy: Father of AI. Accessed April 3, 2023. http://jmc.stanford.edu/artificial-intelligence/what-is-ai/.

AI Unveiled: A Quickstart Guide for TBR Educators

Help with Creating AI Policies and Guidelines

AI Resources for Teaching & Learning

On this page, you'll find resources that will help you understand AI in higher education. If you come across items of interest, please forward them to Bryan Saums (email bryan.saums@volstate.edu) for possible listing here.

Collections of Syllabai Policies

• Volunteer State Faculty Policies on AI. VSCC faculty are encouraged to share their classroom policies on AI here so we may all learn from each other. If you wish to share assignments you've written that incorporate AI, please email Bryan Saums at bryan.saums@volstate.edu.
• Eaton, Lance, comp. Classroom Policies for AI Generative Tools. Accessed June 12, 2023. This is a growing collection of classroom and institutional policies from higher education institutions throughout North America. If you are a professor looking for ideas regarding writing AI policies for your classes, this is a great place to start.

TBR Collection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Teaching and Learning

• Access the resource hub here. 
• This is a website/resource hub for TBR educators exploring the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in teaching and learning. On this site, you will find recaps of the TBR Tech Talk Tuesday sessions--including links to meeting recordings. Additionally, we have included a vetted resource repository of examples, articles, videos, and tools. Lastly, included is an AI Playbook, which contains best practices collected from leaders in the field as well as various educational institutions, organizations, and industries. As AI is rapidly changing, expect constant updates to this site.

How is AI Disrupting and Transforming Higher Ed?

• OpenAI. "Teaching with AI" Entry posted August 31, 2023. https://openai.com/blog/teaching-with-ai#OpenAI.
• Cummings, Lance. "Developing Your Default GenAI Policy". iSophist. Entry posted August 1, 2023. 
• Mollick, Ethan. "The Homework Apocalypse." One Useful Thing. 1 July 2023. Accessed 15 July 2023. https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-homework-apocalypse.
• Banks, David C. "ChatGPT caught NYC schools off guard. Now, we're determined to embrace its potential." Chalkbeat. Last modified May 18, 2023. Accessed May 22, 2023. https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2023/5/18/23727942/chatgpt-nyc-schools-david-banks.
• Abdous, M'hammed. "How AI Is Shaping the Future of Higher Ed." Chronicle of Higher Education, March 22, 2023. Accessed April 3, 2023. https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2023/03/22/how-ai-shaping-future-higher-ed-opinion.
• Hutson et al., James. "Artificial Intelligence and the Disruption of Higher Education: Strategies for Integrations across Disciplines." Creative Education 13, no. 12 (December 2022). Accessed April 4, 2023. https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=122159.

Ideas for Using AI to Improve Teaching and Learning

• Speicher, Stephanie. "10 Best Practices for AI Assignments in Higher Ed." ACUE blog. Accessed 11 Jan. 2024.  
• MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI. "Quick Start Guide to Writing and AI." Humanities Commons. Last modified February 21, 2023. Accessed April 3, 2023. https://aiandwriting.hcommons.org/resources/.