Artificial Intelligence in Teaching and Learning
How is Artificial Intelligence (AI) affecting teaching and learning in higher education?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is significantly impacting higher education, revolutionizing various aspects of the learning experience. AI-powered tools and platforms are transforming how students access educational content, tailor their learning paths, and receive personalized feedback. Moreover, AI-driven systems can help educators generate educational content and facilitate research endeavors. While these advancements bring exciting opportunities, it’s essential to address ethical concerns, data privacy, and ensure AI complements the education process rather than replacing it entirely. Embracing AI responsibly can lead to a more accessible, efficient, and effective higher education landscape.
Artificial intelligence has introduced significant challenges to academic integrity in education. As AI becomes more accessible, educators have expressed concerns about students using it to generate answers to questions on tests and assignments. Rather than reacting in fearful ways to new advances in AI, educators can focus on potential benefits, such as providing new perspectives on a problem and generating content that can be analyzed or critiqued. Undoubtedly, instructors need to provide guidelines to students about the appropriate and inappropriate uses of AI tools. However, instructors can also model and encourage productive and positive uses of AI and help students see its value.
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The Center for Teaching Excellence, the AI2 Center, and the Center for Instructional Technology & Training are honoring UF educators who have made significant contributions using AI in teaching and learning. These awards recognize instructors and instructional teams for adopting, implementing, creatively using, and championing AI. Find out more on the AI Awards page.
The Center for Instructional Technology and Training offers resources to help instructors integrate generative AI into assessment, course design, and learning activities to create more personalized, accessible, and engaging learning experiences.
Learn more about AI Course Design on CITT’s website here.
The Center for Instructional Technology and Training offers a number of resources and trainings, including on writing meaning prompts, using AI for student success, and the different ways that faculty and staff are using AI at the University of Florida.
Access more resources on AI on CITT’s website here.
Initially shared as part of the Harnessing AI series, explore this activity for critically evaluating generative AI content. Does Your AI Generated Content Pass the FLUFF Test? The FLUFF test was designed as a framework to critically evaluate content generated by artificial intelligence. Using the Format, Language, Usability, Fanfare, Function (FLUFF) approach, participants examine the AI results for evidence of infractions. Format infractions include layout or length issues. Language infractions hit on tone, phrasing, or repetition of information. Usability infractions involve consistency or credibility. Fanfare infractions miss the mark on the intended audience by using inappropriate anecdotes and/or jargon. Finally, with Function, the user questions whether they have the context or expertise to evaluate the facts. The goal is to regenerate and rewrite content down to zero FLUFF with zero infractions. Book time with the CTE Consultant and creator, Dr. Jennifer Parker, to learn more.
Empower your faculty, staff, or team with customized AI training sessions offered by the Center for Teaching Excellence. Collaborate with our team to design workshops tailored to your group’s preferences. Explore AI features, functionality, and digital tools, and co-create sessions covering topics such as time-saving tools for email, syllabus, learning objectives, and assessments. Utilize our experienced consultants to facilitate tailored sessions on integrating AI into lessons, AI-proofing assignments, or generating AI-driven content like text, images, presentations, and more. Let us assist in crafting meaningful professional development for your group, department, or team. Find out more by submitting a request.
Authored by UF leaders including CTE Director Dr. Alexandra Bitton-Bailey, this e-book examines AI from different perspectives, which helps readers with varying degrees of familiarity connect to the content within the e-book. If you want to learn about artificial intelligence and incorporate it into a college/university course, then this book is a foundational guide you should use to get started. It assumes nothing and begins with basic terms and concepts used in AI and Data Science. The book grapples with the difficult question, “what is Artificial Intelligence?”—an incredibly broad term that means different things to different people. Read the book here.
The applications of AI are limitless and whatever your interest level, you can increase your working knowledge of AI through professional development courses offered by the University of Florida.
UFIT Tech Bytes is a series that provides bite-sized events covering technologies and strategies to enhance teaching and learning. Register for upcoming Tech Byte events and access recordings of previous events on the Center for Instructional Technology and Training’s webpage.
Tech Byte Recording and Cookbook
The University of Florida is part of Unizin, a consortium of higher education institutions including Indiana University, University of Michigan, and Colorado State University. Unizin seeks to use the power of the collective to build relationships with vendors and tools to the benefit of all. Staff and leaders from each institution meet on various committees (e.g. Teaching and Learning) to work through common needs. For example, the current Teaching and Learning committee is working on a Generative AI Guiding Principles document. Learn more about the work of the Teaching and Learning Advisory group.