Every month, our AI blog provides a selection of literature and resources on artificial intelligence in teaching and learning. Here’s the roundup for December 2024:
New Resource: AGORA (AI GOvernance and Regulatory Archive), a “collection of AI-relevant laws, regulations, standards, and other governance documents from the United States and around the world.”
Bjork C. Big AI companies need higher ed … but does higher ed need them? Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Dec 2. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2024/12/02/universities-must-beware-reliance-big-ai-opinion
Excerpt: “Building reliance on Silicon Valley AI companies carries risks...”
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Collie RJ, Martin AJ, Gasevic D. Teachers’ generative AI self-efficacy, valuing, and integration at work: Examining job resources and demands. Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence. 2024;7:100333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2024.100333
Excerpt: “Generative AI (genAI) tools have involved rapid and broad uptake since their wide release in late 2022, including among teachers. We investigated several factors that play a role in teachers’ motivation and engagement to harness genAI in teaching and learning.”
Wargo K & Anderson B. Striking a balance: navigating the ethical dilemmas of AI in higher education. EDUCAUSE Review [Internet]. 2024 Dec 5. Available from: https://er.educause.edu/articles/2024/12/striking-a-balance-navigating-the-ethical-dilemmas-of-ai-in-higher-education
Excerpt: “Navigating the complexities of artificial intelligence (AI) while upholding ethical standards requires a balanced approach that considers the benefits and risks of AI adoption.”
Palmer K. In Wisconsin, professors worry AI could replace them. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Dec 6. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2024/12/06/wisconsin-professors-worry-ai-could-replace
Excerpt: “Faculty say a proposed policy change could lead to AI-run classes at the Universities of Wisconsin System. University officials say their fears are overblown.”
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Warner J. Academic integrity in an LLM world. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Dec 6. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/just-visiting/2024/12/06/we-cant-let-chatgpt-make-lie-out-education
Excerpt: “But in our generative AI world, in which students have easy access to syntax-generating large language models capable of producing potentially passable (and passing) outputs, it seems impossible not to worry about academic integrity. Students passing classes where they haven’t done any work is definitely a problem.”
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Dryer D. To use AI or not to use AI? A student’s burden. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Dec 9. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2024/12/09/ai-shifts-responsibility-academic-integrity-opinion
Excerpt: “In shifting much of the responsibility for upholding academic integrity from instructors to students, we leave students with an unfair burden...”
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Gordon R. Citation tool offers a new approach to trustworthy AI-generated content. MIT News [Internet]. 2024 Dec 9. Available from: https://news.mit.edu/2024/citation-tool-contextcite-new-approach-trustworthy-ai-generated-content-1209
Excerpt: “Researchers develop ‘ContextCite,’ an innovative method to track AI’s source attribution and detect potential misinformation.”
Warner J. Faculty must protect their labor from AI replacement. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Dec 11. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/just-visiting/2024/12/11/great-ready-faculty-bot-ification
Excerpt: “If college faculty are going to survive in a world of artificial intelligence, they’re going to have to start to see themselves as laborers first. And by survive, I mean survive, as in continue to actually exist.”
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Watkins M. When AI does the reading for students. The Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2024 Dec 12. Available from: https://www-chronicle-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/article/when-ai-does-the-reading-for-students
Excerpt: “The technology that powers ChatGPT is quickly transforming reading practices. What does that mean for your assignments?”
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Palmer K. The AI-generated textbook that’s making academics nervous. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Dec 13. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/learning-assessment/2024/12/13/ai-assisted-textbook-ucla-has-some-academics
Excerpt: “The UCLA literature professor who developed the textbook says it will save students money and allow her to be the teacher she’s always wanted to be. Others aren’t so sure.”
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Soares W. AI tools and student data: Teachers can endanger kids’ privacy without robust training. Chalkbeat [Internet]. 2024 Dec 13. Available from: https://www.chalkbeat.org/2024/12/13/ai-tools-used-by-teachers-can-put-student-privacy-and-data-at-risk
Excerpt: "As AI companies have proliferated, many have offered services like AI-powered tutors for students, and AI chatbots and platforms that serve as teaching assistants. But many of them do not sufficiently protect students’ personal data."
Lee SM. Scholars are supposed to say when they use AI. Do they? The Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2024 Dec 18. Available from: https://www-chronicle-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/article/scholars-are-supposed-to-say-when-they-use-ai-do-they
Excerpt: “Journals have policies about disclosing ChatGPT writing. Enforcing them is another matter.”
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Carpenter TA. Once it has been trained, who will own my digital twin? 2024 Dec 19. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/12/19/once-it-has-been-trained-who-will-own-my-digital-twin
Excerpt: “Presently, if one ignores the hype around Generative AI systems, we can recognize that software tools are not sentient. Nor can they (yet) overcome the problem of coming up with creative solutions to novel problems...But given enough training data, one could consider how much farther this could be taken.”
Palmer K. How will AI influence higher ed in 2025? Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Dec 19. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2024/12/19/how-will-ai-influence-higher-ed-2025
Excerpt: “No one knows for sure, but Inside Higher Ed asked seven experts for their predictions.”
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Grove J. AI-authored abstracts ‘more authentic’ than human-written ones. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Dec 20. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/research/2024/12/20/ai-authored-abstracts-more-authentic-human-written-ones
Excerpt: “Higher ratings for AI-authored abstracts should not obscure the need for engaging prose with a ‘human touch,’ says study co-author.”
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Zhou H. Navigating the digital frontier: How emerging tech trends are shaping scholarly publishing. 2024 Dec 20. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/12/20/navigating-the-digital-frontier-how-emerging-tech-trends-are-shaping-scholarly-publishing
Excerpt: The writer highlights four strategic technology trends, including agentic AI, and their potential roles in scholarly publishing.
Crotty D. Our algorithmically-driven homogenized future. 2024 Dec 23. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/12/23/our-algorithmically-driven-homogenized-future
Excerpt: “What happens to innovation when everyone is using the same tool with the same biases that is essentially built to offer us more of the same stuff that we already like/know? Is this a recipe for a similar homogenization and stagnation of science and knowledge building in general?” This article shares a video from the New York Times on algorithms and culture.
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