Introduction
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is transforming the broader teaching and learning landscape, leading to changes in how educators teach and students learn. Its capacity to generate coherent, logical, and reflective content across various mediums, such as text, images, code, audio, and video, is driving rapid and significant changes in teaching and learning in higher education.
An interdisciplinary project team, comprising faculty, staff, and students from two Colleges in University College Dublin (UCD), came together in April 2023 to collaboratively work on a SATLE funded project with the following aims:
- Undertake a critical evaluation of the current use of high-profile (Chat GPT, Bing etc) AI applications within three UCD schools, using the DigComp 2.2 [1] competences framework.
- Use findings of this evaluation to co-develop a collaboratively designed online ‘AI Readiness’ resource for faculty and students.
- Co-develop an AI digital capabilities matrix the contextualisation of the ‘AI Readiness’ resources across different disciplines in the university.
This faculty guidebook is the product of work completed by the SATLE ‘Are You AI Ready?’ project team to date.
Project leads: Orla Daly (Technology Enhanced Learning Manager, School of Nursing, Midwifery & Health Systems) & Liam Fogarty (Senior Project Manager, Educational Technology Services)
Project Coordinator: Ashley Bough (School of Education, PhD candidate)
Student Team: Theresa Schilling, Tara Redmond, Dylan McKeever
Faculty & Professional Staff Team Members: Associate Professor Eileen Furlong (School of Nursing, Midwifery & Health Systems); Dr Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila (School of Social Policy, Social Work & Social Justice); Dr Rachel Farrell (School of Education), Andrew Woods (College of Social Sciences & Law), Dr Sarah Morton (College of Social Sciences & Law)
It would be unrealistic to claim that this single guidebook can equip you to understand all aspects of GenAI, and its implications for you as faculty in Higher Education. Keeping pace with the swift evolution of GenAI models and tool development presents a continuous challenge, and is expected to remain so for some time into the future.
This guidebook is presented with humility and an awareness of its limitations. The main objective of the project team is to equip you with a basic knowledge of GenAI and offer insights into how you can effectively and ethically use different GenAI tools in your academic studies.
The content of this resource has been compiled from several excellent open educational resources that were created by educational developers, educators, researchers and students at other post-secondary institutions and universities around the world. The SATLE ‘Are You AI Ready?’ project team has carefully curated the content and added our own content to create this customised resource for faculty at UCD. We hope you will share with us your reactions, questions, and suggestions. The guidebook will be updated – it will have to be updated – and we want to hear from you where we need to make changes, and do more to meet your GenAI learning needs.
Attribution:
Adapted from Generative Artificial Intelligence in Teaching and Learning Copyright © 2023 by Centre for Faculty Development and Teaching Innovation, Centennial College is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
- Vuorikari, R., Kluzer, S. and Punie, Y., European Commission (2022) DigComp 2.2: The Digital Competence Framework for Citizens - With new examples of knowledge, skills and attitudes. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union. ↵
