Annotated Resources on Generative AI

Annotated Resources on Generative AI and ChatGPT in Teaching and Learning:

The following list of resources are curated by the Office of Teaching and Learning (OTL), with helpful input from people at the UofG and beyond. OTL’s aim with these resources is to help instructors gain a clearer understand of: 

• Generative AI in the University of Guelph Context
• AI in Higher Education
• Teaching and Learning with AI
• Other Useful Resources

Some content expresses ideas and work outside of the UofG context. Consider our institution’s policies and recommendations as you navigate these resources. 

Please feel free to e-mail us at otl@uoguelph.ca to suggest further resources that would be appropriate for this document. 

Within the next six months, OTL will review and update these resources according to new information and feedback. This current version was last updated on October 30th, 2023. 

Generative AI in the University of Guelph Context

• The University of Guelph’s Artificial Intelligence Systems, ChatGPT and Academic Integrity details how “the use of AI in teaching and learning complies with existing policies and regulations that govern academic and scholarly integrity.”
• OTL and McLaughlin Library’s Tool for Determining Allowable Uses of AI with Writing Assignments provides a template that instructors can use and adapt in their courses.
• *** The University of Guelph-Humber's AI Literacy Lab explores "the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education" through experimentation and practical applications that can enhance pedagogy. It features a newsletter with rich insights and resources on AI in teaching in learning. ***
• The July 2023 issue of the OTL Teaching & Learning Digest focuses on “Generative AI and Teaching: What You Need to Know” including summaries of UofG panels, advice on building AI literacy, and additional resources.
• How Should We Teach with Writing in the Era of AI Text Generators? Video Presentation to Lang School of Business, and the accompanying 64-slide presentation by Anna Mills, English Instructor, College of Marin (17 March 2023): Provides background on ChatGPT and other large language models, academic integrity considerations, and ways in which educators may respond, calling for “critical AI literacy” and exploring the possibilities and limitations of the technology. Also see her resource AI Text Generators and Teaching Writing: Starting Points for Inquiry.
• U of G has no plans to ban AI tools like ChatGPT, Taylor Pace, Guelph Today, 9 February 2023: Perspectives on how the University of Guelph is navigating generative AI tools with input from Byron Sheldrick (Associate Vice-President Academic), Ruediger Mueller (Associate Dean Academic, College of Arts), and Andrew Bailey (Professor, Philosophy and Associate Dean, College of Arts). 

AI in Higher Education 

• McMaster University’s MacPherson Institute for Leadership, Innovation and Excellence in Teaching: Generative Artificial Intelligence in Teaching and Learning, offers provisional principles and guidelines from their task force to help instructors understand potential uses of generative AI.

• The University of Alberta’s Centre for Teaching and Learning created a resource, Teaching in the Context of AI, which features information about generative AI, academic integrity, statements of expectations, and suggestions for instructors. Also see the Provost's Taskforce on Artificial Intelligence and the Learning Environment. 

• The University of British Columbia’s Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology provides advice on Assessment Design in an Era of Generative AI, including ethics and privacy, academic integrity, communicating the students, and designing assessments, as well as an extensive list of resources. 

• The Higher Education Strategy Associates (HESA) launched the AI Observatory to share Canadian and international post-secondary institutions’ policies and guidelines on AI. It also includes details on regular roundtable meetings, news, and research.

• Additionally, you may wish to consult with other Canadian post-secondary institutions for additional guidance, perspectives, and resources, such as: 

  • Queen’s University, Centre for Teaching and Learning 

  • Toronto Metropolitan University, Academic Integrity Office 

  • University of Calgary, Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning 

  • University of Toronto, Office of the Vice-Provost, Innovations in Undergraduate Education and Academic Integrity Policy on using generative AI to complete a graded assignment 

  • York University, Academic Integrity 

Teaching and Learning with AI 

Introductory Overviews

• A Simple Guide to Help You Understand AI, BBC News, 10 July 2023: If you need to get a handle on the basics of artificial intelligence, this piece offers a bird’s-eye view introduction. 

• The 2023 EDUCAUSE Horizon Action Plan prompts students, instructors, and administrators to envision goals and actions for how individuals, units and departments, and groups of collaborators can influence directions in AI in higher education over the coming decade, with directions to facilitate planning.

• ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: Quick Start Guide, a 15-page PDF guide published in April 2023 by UNESCO on the technology, its applications, implications, and recommendations to adaptation in higher education. In September 2023, UNESCO released a 45-page document, Guidance for Generative AI in Education and Research, which includes information on context, implications, regulatory and policy frameworks, facilitating creative uses, and insights into future issues that might arise.

• *** 60+ Ideas: ChatGPT Assignments to Use in Your Classroom (2023) is a 145-page open educational resource published by the University of Central Florida's Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning. It includes an overview of the technology with guidance on creating assessments incorporating prompt engineering, searching, evaluation, analysis, writing, generating content, and various types of study. ***

• ChatGPT & Education, 45-slide presentation by Dr. Torrey Trust, Assoc. Professor, Learning Technology, University of Massachusetts Amherst (last updated April 2023): Dr. Trust defines ChatGPT, issues arising from it, its capabilities and limitations, what educators can do, and additional resources. Dr. Trust encourages instructors to rethink teaching and learning in light of these technological advances. 

• ChatGPT in education: Strategies for responsible implementation, Mohaned Halaweh, Professor of Information Systems, Al Ain University, United Arab Emirates, Contemporary Educational Technology 15, no. 2 (April 2023): Halaweh synthesizes scholarly debates on use of ChatGPT in education, and argues for incorporating it. 

• AI & Academia: The End of the Essay?, one-hour video presentation by Dr. Dan Lametti, Assoc. Professor, Psychology, Acadia University and Senior Advisor, OneReach (hosted by the Maple League of Universities, 31 January 2023): Dr. Lametti, who studies psycholinguistics and conversational AI, provides an overview of ChatGPT and its capabilities and limitations, and argues that the technology has promise as a pedagogical tool. 

Specific Perspectives 

• I’m a Student. You Have No Idea How Much We’re Using ChatGPT, by Columbia University undergraduate student Owen Kichizo Terry, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 12 May 2023: An insight into how a student uses ChatGPT to assist in completion of a written assignment, with recommendations that instructors blend allowing student use of AI with some assignments with AI-proof assessments. 

• 4 Steps to Help You Plan for ChatGPT in Your Classroom, Flower Darby, Associate Director, Teaching and Learning Center, University of Missouri at Columbia, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 27 June 2023: As an expert in technology-enabled teaching, Darby recommends that instructors gain AI literacy, coaches on how to talk with students especially when academic misconduct using generative AI is suspected, and emphasizes caution around plagiarism-detection tools.

• Informed Pedagogy is the Key to Solving #AI Plagiarism, Don Eldridge, Digital Learning Expert, eCampus Ontario, 21 April 2023: A proactive response to reports of increased plagiarism using generative AI apps. 

• AI tools don’t have to be the enemy of teaching and learning, Gavan Watson, Vice-Provost, Teaching and Learning, Queen's University and Sarah Elaine Eaton, Associate Professor, Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, University Affairs, 17 February 2023: Opinion piece calling for careful consideration by all involved in teaching and learning of how generative AI tools fit into higher education. 

• How AI could save (not destroy) education, Sal Khan, Founder, Khan Academy, TED Talk (video and transcript), April 2023: Khan offers an optimistic view of how his educational non-profit is looking at AI as positively transformative for education. 

• How ChatGPT can help disrupt assessment overload, David Carless, Professor, Education, University of Hong Kong, Times Higher Education, 19 April 2023: Carless makes a case for reducing the number of assessments to focus on deeper, scaffolded learning using both generative AI and authentic assessment approaches. 

• Academic Integrity in Canada: An Enduring and Essential Challenge, a 2022 open-access book offering an overview of academic integrity issues by Sarah Elaine Eaton, Associate Professor, Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary, and Julia Christensen Hughes, President and Vice Chancellor, Yorkville University. 

Other Useful Resources

• AI Text Generators: Sources to Stimulate Discussion among Teachers, continuously updated, open Google Doc curated by Anna Mills, English Instructor, College of Marin: Educators have been compiling a growing list of articles from various sources on generative AI tools including ChatGPT, representing a wide variety of opinions and information. 

• Five ways AI has already changed higher education, Tom Williams and Jack Grove, Times Higher Education, 15 May 2023: Covers how AI helps teaching and student support, assists with research, relieves admissions processes, and affects education company’s business models.  

• Conversations have been emerging on how educators might use AI in their own work and ethical issues that arise. Current discussions revolve around faculty potentially using AI to help manage administrative tasks, with warnings of how problems may arise, for example Boilerplate and AI, Matt Reed, Inside Higher Ed, 19 February 2023.