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Student Guide to Generative AI

This guide is to help students navigate the use of generative AI.

Workshops and training at Baylor

Upcoming

[If you know of upcoming workshops or training at Baylor, email Ellen Filgo, Ellen_Filgo@baylor.edu, and I'll list them here. Thanks!]

See this event calendar for more AI-related events on campus.

Potential journal club topic: AI in STEM

Experiment with how generative AI can enhance your course design, lesson plans, feedback, and assignments while also helping students develop AI literacy. This session is virtual (Zoom link will be sent to registrants).


Previous (many have recordings available)

The recent launch of a high-performing, intuitive, and accessible AI chatbot has many instructors wondering how students and instructors alike may use this tool for good and ill, with consequences for everything from essay writing to multiple-choice exams. Grab lunch at the SUB or nearby Penland dining hall, or bring your own lunch, and join us for an open-ended discussion on the instructional implications of these developments.

With the advent of ChatGPT, artificial Intelligence has steamrolled into higher education. Instructor reactions have ranged from avoidance to prohibition to embrace. In addition to learning objectives, curriculum concerns, student abilities, and AI’s capabilities, pedagogical decisions and policies regarding AI should be also consider how students actually perceive and use AI. This session reports on a recent survey of Baylor undergraduates investigating their perceptions, use, and experiences with AI in coursework. Participants will learn under what conditions students view AI use as cheating, their reasons for using AI, their expectations of their instructors, and more.

The Office of the Provost, in conjunction with the School of Engineering and Computer Science, is delighted to welcome Dr. Christopher W. Stubbs, dean of science at Harvard University, to the second "AI Faculty Forum." The title of the conversation is "Harnessing Generative AI for Learning." 

Tutorials on ChatGPT and Generative AI

To learn more, try our new tutorials about ChatGPT.  They contain short videos (3 min or less), and quiz questions for self-review of what you learned. To complete all four should take 30-40 minutes maximum. To access the tutorials, you will need to self-enroll in the AI Literacy (self-paced, asynchronous) course on Canvas. Topics include:

  1. What is generative AI?
  2. The technology behind ChatGPT
  3. How does ChatGPT aim to prevent harmful use?
  4. Using ChatGPT effectively

SELF-ENROLL HERE: https://baylor.instructure.com/enroll/APM47F

ChatGPT can be a useful tool when it comes to deciding what your topic should be for a research paper. We've created this guide for use with students.

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