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Teaching with AI

This guide provides tips for understanding AI and using it in your teaching. From the team behind the Center for Teaching and Learning guide

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Introduction

Here, you'll find resources and tips for incorporating AI into your teaching practice. Learn what AI can do for you.

*New AI tools popup every day. There are too many to list and some are better than others. We invite you to explore on your own and share with your colleagues.

Smart Grading Solutions

AI-Assisted Grading and Feedback

Grading is often one of the most time-consuming tasks for professors. AI-powered tools can ease your workload, while maintaining feedback quality

  • Tools that streamline grading of essays, quizzes, and assignments:
    • Gradescope: Uses AI to group similar answers, allowing for faster and more consistent grading of written responses and problem sets.
    • Turnitin: Offers originality checking and AI-powered writing feedback to help identify potential plagiarism and improve student writing.
  • AI-developed rubrics:
    • Easily customize the rubric targeting the assessment's requirements (skip the generic approach).
    • Ensure evaluation aligns with the instructional objectives.
    • Quickly generate well-written, specific performance (descriptor) statements.
    • Supports greater consistency - reduce the grading drift between the first and last paper you grade 
  • Faculty benefit: Automating repetitive grading tasks while providing personalized feedback
    • Reduce grading time for large classes or complex projects.
    • Ensure consistency in grading across multiple sections or multiple instructors 
    • Provide more detailed and timely feedback to students, potentially improving learning outcomes.

Accelerate Research

Have you ever wished for a research assistant? AI is here to help!

AI can be a powerful tool in the research process. It's important to note that the use of AI in academia, as in other fields, merits serious thought and development of guidelines and recommendations. Like many technologies, AI has multiple uses. The choice of why, how, and to what degree it is used is ultimately a personal decision.

  • Tools for finding research papers, summarizing key findings, or assisting with literature reviews:
    • Elicit:  "Automate time-consuming research tasks like summarizing papers, extracting data, and synthesizing your findings"
    • Semantic Scholar: " free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature" to analyze research papers, highlight important citations, and identify influential works.
    • Semantic Reader (see example) from Semantic Scholar. It is an "AI-powered augmented scientific reading application"
  • Use cases:
    • Conduct literature reviews for grant proposals or new research projects
    • Stay up-to-date in your discipline through AI-curated research digests.
    • Identify emerging trends or gaps in research for potential new studies.
    • Generate summaries of key papers.

AI Efficiency Boosters

Enhancing Your Workflow

Integrating AI into your daily workflow can help you work more efficiently. Change how you manage your academic responsibilities. Easily customize your presentations. AI can generate content for a PowerPoint deck in seconds! Your job is to ensure it hits the learning objectives and customize the content for your course. And always double-check the AI generated content.

Faculty benefit: Reducing administrative load through automatic scheduling and reminders

  • AI tools can save hours each week on administrative tasks, allowing more time for teaching preparation and research.
  • Automated reminders reduce the mental load of keeping track of multiple deadlines and commitments.
  • AI-generated summaries of meetings and tasks provide quick references, improving overall productivity and reducing stress. (Zoom and otter a.i. provide summaries. Keep in mind the availability of various tools depends upon your institution.)

Implement smart to-do list apps like Todoist or TickTick that use AI to prioritize tasks and suggest optimal times for completion. Leverage AI-powered calendar apps like Calendar.com to analyze your scheduling patterns and suggest the best times for focused work or meetings. Utilize AI note-taking tools like Otter.ai to automatically transcribe and summarize meeting notes, saving time on post-meeting documentation.

What AI Can Do

Writing/Text Generation: Generate, summarize, or improve written content for assignments, syllabi, or academic papers.

Content Creation: Generate and optimize various types of content including articles, blog posts, social media content, and marketing materials.

Video Creation: Generate, edit, and enhance video content with AI-powered tools for tutorials, presentations, and educational content.

Image Generation: Create custom images, illustrations, and visual content using AI algorithms for various educational and marketing purposes.

Voice and Music Generation: Create voice-overs, background music, and audio content for educational materials and multimedia projects.

Slide Decks and Presentations: Create and enhance presentation materials with AI-powered design suggestions.

Chatbots: Provide instant responses to common queries, offer support services, and facilitate automated interactions.

Email: Assist with email composition, response generation, and inbox management to streamline communication workflows.

Social Media Management: Automate content scheduling, analyze engagement metrics, and optimize social media presence.

Collaboration Tools: Facilitate group work, brainstorming, and communication among students and faculty.

Tutoring: Act as virtual tutors, offering personalized learning support and explanations for students.

Course Design: Assist in creating course content, structuring curricula, or suggesting interactive learning activities.

Language Learning: Help students practice and learn new languages through conversational interfaces and feedback.

Assessment: Automate grading, provide feedback on assignments, or analyze student performance.

Personalized Learning: Adapt content delivery based on individual student learning styles and progress.

  • Task and Project Management: Coordinate activities, track progress, and manage educational resources.
  • Scheduling: Optimize time management by coordinating appointments, classes, and events.
  • Classroom Management: Track attendance, monitor participation, and manage classroom dynamics.
  • Data Analysis: Analyze and visualize data to track student performance and course trends.
  • Behavior Analysis: Analyze student behavior or sentiment in online discussions and feedback forms.
  • Search Engines: Enable intelligent search and discovery of educational resources and materials.
  • Knowledge Management: Organize and summarize vast amounts of information and research materials.
  • Coding Assistance: Assist with programming tasks, debugging, and learning new programming languages.
  • Research Assistance: Assist with literature reviews, data analysis, and summarizing academic papers.
  • Plagiarism Detection: Identify potential plagiarism in student assignments and research papers.

Accessibility Tools: Provide features like text-to-speech and adaptive technologies for students with disabilities.

Captioning: Create captions and transcripts for videos and audio to improve accessibility.

Speech-to-Text: Convert spoken words into text for transcription and note-taking support.

Grammar and Writing: Enhance writing quality by identifying errors and suggesting improvements.

Resume Building: Help create and optimize professional resumes with tailored content and formatting.

Explore Further

Generative AI for Educators Free training from Google! "In this course, you’ll learn about generative AI, which is a type of AI that creates new content, such as text, images, or other media. You’ll explore how to use generative AI tools to assist your teaching practice by saving time on everyday tasks, personalizing instruction to meet student needs, and enhancing lessons and activities in creative ways."

Understanding How AI Works Makes It More Effective in Lesson Planning

MCPHS Faculty & AI

Jessica L. Parker

Meet MCPHS's Dr. Jessica Parker. Jessica is an adjunct professor in the School of Healthcare Business and Technology and co-founder of MOXIE  - An AI tool uniquely designed to support the research process from introduction to publication.

MCPHS Article: ‘This is Electricity’: How AI Tools are Transforming Doctoral Student Work
"Under the guidance of Dr. Jessica Parker, graduate students at MCPHS University are using generative AI to improve their academic writing and research skills."

Read her research! MOXIE ResearchGate profile

AI Tool:  MOXIE   Your ethical AI research companion providing guidance while preserving your authentic scholarly voice."

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