Every month, our AI blog provides a selection of literature on artificial intelligence in teaching and learning. Here’s the roundup for November 2024:
Nunez M. UC San Diego, Tsinghua University researchers just made AI way better at knowing when to ask for help. VentureBeat [Internet]. 2024 Nov 4. Available from: https://venturebeat.com/ai/uc-san-diego-tsinghua-university-researchers-just-made-ai-way-better-at-knowing-when-to-ask-for-help/
Excerpt: “A team of computer scientists has developed a method that helps artificial intelligence understand when to use tools versus relying on built-in knowledge, mimicking how human experts solve complex problems.”
Weaver KD. The Artificial Intelligence Disclosure (AID) Framework: an introduction. C&RL News [Internet]. 2024 Nov 5;85(10):407. Available from: https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/26548
Excerpt: “As artificial intelligence (AI) tools—particularly generative AI based in large language models—are becoming widely available, their use across the varied contexts of education, work, and research must be negotiated. The accelerating uptake of these tools is driving a range of conversations around transparency in the use of these tools for various purposes. Within the contexts of education and research, and particularly within higher education, the citation has long been the standard tool for providing transparency and connection in the transfer of ideas across scholars, framing of arguments, and design of methodologies.”
Zhou H. The top ten challenges, needs, and goals of publishers – and how AI can help in digital transformation and the open science movement. 2024 Nov 5. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/11/05/the-top-ten-challenges-needs-and-goals-of-publishers-and-how-ai-can-help-in-digital-transformation-and-the-open-science-movement
Excerpt: “From maintaining research integrity to diversifying revenue sources, publishers are facing an increasingly broad set of challenges, needs, and goals, especially in the open science movement. As artificial intelligence (AI) begins to play an ever-bigger role in the scholarly publishing landscape, how might it help solve some of these pain points?”
Weinberg L. Breaking the AI fever. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Nov 6. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2024/11/06/ai-consolidating-corporate-power-higher-ed-opinion
Excerpt: “Conversations about artificial intelligence in higher education have been all too consumed by concerns about academic integrity, on the one hand, and how to use education as a vehicle for keeping pace with AI innovation on the other. Instead, this moment can be leveraged to center concerns about the corporate takeover of higher education.”
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Schroeder R. Here come the AI agents! Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Nov 6. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/online-trending-now/2024/11/06/here-come-ai-agents
Excerpt: “We have primarily worked with chat bot versions of generative AI in which we enter a prompt, the program does some research and responds via text, image, video or audio. That has been effective for single-instance transactional engagement. Yet, we have not been able to automatically complete a complex list of tasks on the computer that are dependent upon reasoning and prior actions.”
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Davidoff M. How broadening AI access can help bridge the digital divide. EDUCAUSE Review [Internet]. 2024 Nov 11. Available from: https://er.educause.edu/articles/2024/11/how-broadening-ai-access-can-help-bridge-the-digital-divide
Excerpt: “Providing low-income students with free access to paid artificial intelligence tools could decrease disparities in digital access and literacy.”
Gardner L. Is it time to regulate AI use on campus? The Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2024 Nov 11. Available from: https://www-chronicle-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/article/is-it-time-to-regulate-ai-use-on-campus
Excerpt: “So far, higher education has been devoid of major public AI scandals. But ungoverned use of the technology across a campus could lead to exposure of sensitive data and the proliferation of inconsistent uses that could potentially harm students and other stakeholders as well as the institution. Confusing or patchy AI policies might be worse than none at all.”
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Dusseau M. Burn it down: a license for AI resistance. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Nov 12. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2024/11/12/burn-it-down-license-ai-resistance-opinion
Excerpt: “Until writing studies adopted generative artificial intelligence as sound pedagogy, I always felt at home among my fellow word nerds in rhet comp and literary studies. These days, I identify with the buzzkill parents of Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Veldt.” Are my students, Peter and Wendy, furrowing their brows with disapproval at my old-school AI skepticism? Will they gleefully throw me to the virtual reality lions?”
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Pearson H. Can AI review the scientific literature — and figure out what it all means? Nature: News Feature [Internet]. 2024 Nov 13. Available from: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03676-9
Excerpt: “Artificial intelligence could help speedily summarize research. But it comes with risks.”
Swaak T. AI assistants keep joining meetings. Administrators say it’s out of control. The Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2024 Nov 13. Available from: https://www-chronicle-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/article/ai-assistants-keep-joining-meetings-administrators-say-its-out-of-control
Excerpt: ”The scenario underscores a growing challenge for colleges: Tech adoption and experimentation among students, faculty, and staff — especially as it pertains to AI — are outpacing institutions’ governance of these technologies and may even violate their data-privacy and security policies.”
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Palmer K. Scholarly publishing world slow to embrace generative AI. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Nov 14. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/digital-publishing/2024/11/14/scholarly-publishing-world-slow-embrace
Excerpt: “As the technology’s reach into the information sector expands, a recent report from Ithaka S+R shows that academe is still grappling with how best to integrate it into the scholarly publishing process.”
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Salmons J. Guest post: supply chain of writing fools. 2024 Nov 20. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/11/20/guest-post-supply-chain-of-writing-fools
Excerpt: “So far, three of my books have been swallowed up without my consent, and I assume they have devoured my extensive collection of blog posts and videos. I’m not alone; writers and artists have involuntarily become content suppliers. While Aretha Franklin’s chain of fools referred to betrayal of trust in love, writers feel betrayed by those who should be protecting our intellectual and creative property.”
Tishcoff R, Agoe E, Isik M, MacFarlane A. Using generative AI to make learning more accessible: insights from Ontario PSE students and staff. Toronto, ON: Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, Nov 20, 2024. Available from: https://heqco.ca/pub/using-generative-ai-to-make-learning-more-accessible-insights-from-ontario-pse-students-and-staff/
Excerpt: “The Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) conducted a study to determine how GenAI can be used to make learning more accessible for all students, including those with disabilities, and the barriers to its use faced by students, instructors and staff in PSE.”
Blaszczyk M, McGovern G, Stanley KD. Artificial intelligence impacts on copyright law. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, Nov 20, 2024. Available from: https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA3243-1.html
Excerpt: “This paper presents three main questions regarding whether: works created with the use of AI are protectable under copyright law; training of AI models on copyrighted works is allowed under U.S. law and in other jurisdictions, such as the European Union (EU); the most-recent developments in generative AI technology (including large language models [LLMs]), regarding both their training and outputs, are addressed by current copyright doctrine.”
Rowsell J. AI chat bot can conduct research interviews on unprecedented scale. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Nov 22. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2024/11/22/researchers-claim-ai-chat-bot-can-conduct
Excerpt: “The freely available tool performs strongly in trials against human interviewers and traditional online surveys.”
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Harington R. A dissonance of ideals: openness, copyright, and AI. 2024 Nov 25. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/11/25/robert-harington-attempts-to-reveal-inherent-conflicts-in-our-drive-to-be-as-open-as-possible-authors-need-to-understand-their-rights-and-a-librarys-mandate-to-provide-their-patron
Excerpt: “In this post I attempt to reveal inherent conflicts in our drive to be as open as possible, authors’ need to understand their rights, and a library’s mandate to provide their patrons with the enhanced discovery that comes with AI’s large language models (LLMs).”
Palmer MS. Is generative AI a general purpose pedagogical innovation? Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Nov 25. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2024/11/25/understanding-generative-ai-pedagogical-innovation-opinion
Excerpt: “Despite the attention generative artificial intelligence has received in higher education, it is often discussed solely as a technological innovation rather than a pedagogical one. However, viewing it through a pedagogical lens is crucial for understanding its full potential and the ways it will shape both teaching practices and student learning outcomes.”
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Palmer K. Is Grammarly AI? Notre Dame says yes. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Nov 26. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2024/11/26/grammarly-ai-notre-dame-says-yes
Excerpt: “The rapid introduction of generative AI has created a wild west of policies at colleges, complicating the use of long-standing editing and writing tools.”
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Millner M. Why I invited AI to dinner. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2024 Nov 27. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/teaching/2024/11/27/how-ai-can-help-teach-art-conversation-opinion
Excerpt: "Asking students to converse with chat bots can help them see academic inquiry as a conversation..."
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