June 20, 2024AI, Higher Ed and the Hype Cycleby Amanda SturgillIs AI going to make our lives worse? An interesting study came out recently from Elon’s Imagining the Digital Future Center (Rainie and Husser 2024) that sort of asked that question, in relation to deep fakes (United States Government Accountability Office 2020) and politics…
May 14, 2024Student-Reported Benefits and Tensions about Generative AI in Academics: Part 2by Aaron TrockiIn part one of this two-part blog post, I shared some findings from a focus group interview conducted at the end of last semester. In the first part of the focus group interview, students provided their reactions to the Artificial…
April 23, 2024Student-Reported Benefits and Tensions about Generative AI in Academics: Part 1by Aaron TrockiMy ongoing exploration of how generative AI might be used in assessment practices has revealed some benefits to teaching and learning, some drawbacks, and some tensions. Sharing this exploration through these blog posts and having numerous discussions about higher education…
March 12, 2024Utilizing a Framework for Artificial Intelligence-Supported Assessments: Part 2by Aaron TrockiIn December I introduced a framework to support faculty with the complexities of incorporating generative AI into their assessments. One feature of this framework encourages the consideration of separating assessment components into AI-active and AI-inactive sections to better articulate expectations…
February 20, 2024Utilizing a Framework for Artificial Intelligence-Supported Assessments: Part 1by Aaron TrockiIn my previous blog post, I introduced a framework developed to assist faculty with incorporating generative AI, such as ChatGPT, in their assessments. I also shared an artificial intelligence-supported assessment (AI-SA) and some of my thinking underlying its structure and…
December 5, 2023A Preliminary Framework for Artificial Intelligence–Supported Assessments: Models of Assessment and Feedbackby Aaron TrockiSince interviewing Rachel Forsyth a couple months ago, I have been writing and piloting assessments that incorporate artificial intelligence platforms like ChatGPT. My work was in response to her consideration of how AI could be used to help students and…