AI for Academics
3 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Chatbots and OpenAI for academics - learn to detect text-based AI, teach about AI ethics, and use AI to improve your workflows and writing
AI for Academics
3 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Chatbots and OpenAI for academics - learn to detect text-based AI, teach about AI ethics, and use AI to improve your workflows and writing
Course overview
Turn AI from adversary to consultant, help students learn AI ethics
This course offers specific ways to for talk about AI-generated text in syllabi and the classroom; ways to detect whether students are using AI inappropriately, and ways to make AI work for you in ways that save time in the classroom and promote your research dissemination.
Who is this course for
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Faculty who teach students at all levels
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Researchers who want to improve dissemination of findings
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PhD students looking for a head start with academic tech skills
What you’ll get out of this course
know how students might want to engage with ChatGPT and how to talk about it
Understand what it means to "cheat with AI", how students do it, how you can detect it, and how to intervene before it happens through clear assignment descriptions, classroom conversations, and attribution policies
harness AI to improve your curriculum
Learn how to use AI to build classroom content. Create case studies, build ppt's in a hurry, tidy up your Blackboard (or other LMS) announcements, and build learning objectives with AI.
improve your research dissemination
Effortlessly create impactful summaries of your research, expand research sharing with targeted social media distribution, and power-up your scholarly paragraphs with academic language. Learn to build better prompts for best AI output.
AI for Academics
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Meet your instructor
Melanie Sage
I am passionate about tech and the humans who use it. After 11 years on the tenure track at public universities, I recently transitioned to a research role in big tech. I still love teaching and I especially enjoy teaching people how to make tech work better for them.
Course syllabus
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1: ChatGPT and students
By the end of this module you will
- know how students might want to engage with ChatGPT
- be familiar with tools for detecting the use of AI in assignments
- have examples and options for talking about ChatGPT on your syllabus and in the classroom
- have ideas for using ChatGPT in assignments
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2: ChatGPT for the classroom
By the end of this module you will:
- know how to use AI to create case studies to discuss in class
- be able to use AI to build efficiency in class content creation
- consider opportunities for using ChatGPT for student feedback
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3: AI for your research
By the end of this module you will:
- know how to create high-quality AI prompts
- try out polishing your own writing with AI
- have AI options for breaking your complicated research abstracts and writing down into tweets and plan-language summaries
- understand options for using AI for data analysis and Excel help
Course schedule
3-6 hours total
Live Session Feb 20
7:00pm - 8:00pm EST
We will meet once live to answer questions, brainstorm, and play with AI together.
Weekly projects
3 hours
You can complete each module in approximately one hour each, or 3 hours total. Do this at your own pace.
Learning is better with cohorts
Active hands-on learning
This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects
Interactive and project-based
You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams
Learn with a cohort of peers
Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you