AI Resources for Faculty

1. First Steps for your Class

• Use CLT's Talking to your Students about AI: Tips for Faculty. Emphasize the importance of original work for students' education and careers. Clarify acceptable and unacceptable AI usage in your course to avoid confusion. 
• Familiarize yourself with AI tools to understand their capabilities. ChatGPT, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and similar tools are available for free in Egypt, with some limitations.
• We also recommend watching the Practical AI for Instructors and Students playlist.
• Discourage the use of AI by aligning assessments to real-life value, and relevance to students, and emphasizing critical and creative thinking.

2. Tailor your Strategy

• We all have diverse contexts; find the most appropriate strategy towards AI for your own courses, learning outcomes, teaching philosophy, and comfort level.

3. Redesign Assessments

• Craft assessments to make them more personalized, contextual, synthetic, and tied to real-life experiences.
• Explore this curated resource or request a CLT consultation.
• Check out AI Assessment ideas in the additional resources section

4. Don’t Ban. Discuss and Bring in

• Discuss AI's role and impacts with your students during the first week and ahead of each major assessment. 
• Avoid relying on flawed and biased AI detectors; foster integrity in other ways, such as oral verification, in-class work, and authentic assessments.
• Check the guidelines on the use of AI and AI detectors.

5. Cultivate Critical AI Literacy

Educate students about AI to foster a critical attitude towards AI. For more on what this might include:

• Watch 16 min video by Maha Bali, or 75 min video by Nicola Pallitt and Maha Bali  
• Have students try one of the self-paced courses on prompt engineering (e.g. from Vanderbilt University).

6. Check out Upcoming CLT Events

• How Does AI Impact Learning? University Education as Mind Building — Mario Hubert
• How AUC Faculty Are Addressing AI in Their Courses —Spring 2023 (Multiple faculty authors)
• Recording of AUC Faculty AI Panel — CLT Symposium, March 8, 2023

• Resources to Promote AI Literacy

  • Guidance for generative AI in education and research by UNESCO
  • Practical AI for Instructors and Students playlist
  • AI Pedagogy Project Assignments - ideas for lesson plans and assessments you can use directly in your courses.
  • Towards AI Literacy: 101+ Creative and Critical Practices, Perspectives and Purposes. 

• Resources on rethinking your classes in the age of AI

  • Update Your Course Syllabus for chatGPT: Quick ideas to help you adapt your syllabus quickly.
  • How Do I Consider the Impact of AI Tools like ChatGPT in My Courses? | Center for Teaching & Learning (umass.edu)
  • From AI to A+: Prepare Your Students for Using ChatGPT and other AI
  • AI Advice Academics Can Use: An inside higher ed article with ideas for you.

• Assessment ideas incorporating AI

  • Teaching with AI book - a collection of practical and reflective brief chapters which you can adapt in your teaching.
  • Learn with AI from the University of Maine
  • Book on 101 Creative Uses of AI in Education 
  • 19 Ideas for Learning Activities Using AI with Daniel Stanford

• Using AI to Help with Your Teaching

  • AI for education prompt library for teachers - readymade AI prompts you can use to help you with your teaching.