Category: Learning with GenAI

Uses of Student Work: What You Can and Cannot Do

Reading Time: 2 minutesStudents have intellectual rights under Canadian copyright law to the work they create during their post-secondary education. They also have privacy rights that mean student work cannot be used or shared without their permission. You cannot submit student work to any internal or external technology without a student’s express permission. Likewise, you cannot use student work – excerpts or in...

Rethinking Academic Integrity in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence

Reading Time: 4 minutesAs professors, our responsibility to uphold academic integrity becomes increasingly complex with the integration of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) in the learning environment, prompting a need to rethink academic integrity in educational institutions. You may have seen some of the following effects of genAI in the teaching and learning space: Unethical Use: GenAI can be used unethically to generate complete...

The Evolving Field of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Chatbots

Reading Time: 14 minutesIn this post, we’ll explore what generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are and try to understand how we’ve gotten to this point in AI technology in general. To begin, I would like to acknowledge that the field of generative AI is growing and evolving rapidly. There is currently a lot of media coverage – not all of it accurate –...