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| It is safe to say I have tumbled way down the AI rabbit hole. Since January, I have developed and led 15 workshops locally, regionally, and nationally. However, I still don’t know where our faculty at Denison stands concerning AI.
To be clear, the CfLT and ETS have run a series of workshops around AI. The attendees were very engaged but few in number. I have seen similar at other AI-related events for faculty on campus. This Inside Higher Ed article, Why faculty members are polarized on AI, may shed some light on this. Nationally, many are seeing a “tribal divide” in their faculty. As Stephanie Laggini Fiore, associate vice provost and senior director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching at Temple University, put it: “It can be ‘your way of thinking is backward’ or ‘you’re not moving with the times,’ whereas others turn around and say, ‘you’re allowing students to do whatever they want in your class, and that erodes our standards.’ ” While I have not seen these extremes at Denison, my intuition tells me something is here. Please complete this short, three question, anonymous survey to help the CfLT better understand where faculty stand on this issue. You’ll need to sign in to a Google account, but emails won’t be collected. Aggregate responses may be shared in a future Teaching, Tech, and Tidbit. |