GenAI Quarterly Newsletter – Issue 1: Fall 2023

by | Dec 6, 2023 | GenAI

As generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) becomes increasingly important in education, the Center for Academic Innovation (CAI) is launching a regular update. Welcome to our inaugural issue!

CONTENTS

  • Chemeketa Resources

  • Notable News

  • Faculty Spotlight

  • Recommended Writing & Recording

  • Upcoming Opportunities

Chemeketa Resources

  • Faculty, please take this short survey to help us understand what you are currently doing and what is needed around the use of Gen AI in Chemeketa courses.

Notable News 

A fall 2023 survey sponsored by Turnitit showed a tremendous six-month growth in student use of Gen AI tools like ChatGPT. Responses from approximately 1600 US college students and 1000 faculty showed that 49% of students have adopted Gen AI, compared with 22% in their March, 2023 survey. Faculty adoption rates are lower, with 22% in fall versus 9% in spring.  Additional findings showed that

  • The top uses for student daily users include summarizing or paraphrasing text, organizing schedules, answering homework questions, and supporting job applications.  

  • 75% of students indicate that they will continue to use GenAI even if their professors or institutions ban the technology.

  • A near majority of students in the Spring (49%) and Fall (47%) believe that GenAI will have a positive impact on their learning. While in the Spring, 50% of faculty believed that GenAI would have a negative impact on student learning, in the Fall, this figure declined to 39% indicating faculty are more open to the potential of GenAI to support learning.

 Source: Time For Class Study, Fall 2023  

Faculty Spotlight

Christie Bailey, RN, PhD, AHN-BC, Nursing, is taking advantage of the latest cutting-edgeChatGPT feature that lets you make your own chat bot, called a “GPT” (for “generative pre-training transformer”). By giving the GPT custom data, including a fictional patient chart, as well as custom instructions for how the GPT should act and respond, she’s using it to create interactive patient case scenarios. When paired with another new feature of ChatGPT–the ability to understand and respond with voice–this would allow students to engage in realistic-sounding oral conversations with a simulated patient. 

Christie recommends checking out these recently developed AI tools:

  • ElevenLabs: Their Generative Voice AI services allow you to convert text to speech as well as speech to speech. The voice generation is very advanced and natural sounding. With speech to speech, you can record your own audio and then replace your voice with a different one from ElevenLab’s large library of voices; the AI generated voice preserves your tone, inflection, and pacing. You can also “clone” your own voice, and use text to speech to create instant audio recordings of your written material in your own voice without hours of recording and editing. (I am so excited about this, as I love creating audio for the students, but it is so time- and resource-intensive.) 

  • Krea AI: This AI art-creation suite has introduced a feature that converts your own drawings into professional-quality art. Rather than searching for clip art or stock photographs, instructors can turn stick-figure renditions into vibrant images for their course material. 

Image created by AI-tool Dalle3, prompted to “Create an image that reflects AI in the classroom”.  Credit: Kevin Steeves, Lane Community College

Recommended Writing & Recording 

Upcoming Opportunities

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