Teaching and Scholarship Hub

It’s hard to believe that it’s already been two years since OpenAI released ChatGPT. It seems like we’ve been immersed in this AI-driven journey for ages, yet at times, it feels like we only just started the conversation. This December, the Faculty Hub is hosting a special “Faculty Showcase and Discussion” highlighting the generative AI experiments taking place across campus. This event offers faculty and instructional staff an opportunity to present, learn, and engage with one another’s experiences using generative AI in teaching and learning.

Whether you’re eager to share your insights or simply curious to learn from others, we welcome your participation. If you’re interested in sharing, consider preparing a brief 5-10 minute presentation or a one-page summary that highlights how you’ve integrated (or intentionally not integrated) generative AI into your courses. If you have time, we’d love to showcase as many examples so please do consider sharing - we hope we have time for at least 6 presentations during the event. We envision this event as a platform to reflect on the progress we’ve made since November 2022, while also sparking conversations about the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead.

Please indicate your interest in presenting through the registration form. For questions, please reach out to me (abell4@richmond.edu) or my colleague Ryan Cales (ryan.cales@richmond.edu).

Event Details:

Location: Faculty Hub Multi-purpose Space

Time: Lunch available at 11:30 am, Program 12 - 1:15 pm

Example Use Cases:

Andrew Bell – PSYC359 Data Visualization

Over the past year, I’ve extensively integrated ChatGPT into my teaching. It has greatly improved my efficiency in tasks like writing emails, preparing lectures, and creating learning activities. However, its most transformative impact has been on my students’ coding experience. Using the R Tidyverse Tutor—a customized GPT tool available through SpiderAI—my first-time coding students now have access to 24/7 support. This resource, combined with a specifications-based assessment approach and a focus on process-oriented learning, enables students to achieve more insightful visualizations and tackle complex analyses that were previously out of reach.

Ryan Cales 

I created the Writing Consultant as a general tool designed to support any student working on writing assignments in their courses. It provides facilitative feedback without generating any written content, offering insights into areas like paragraph structure, use of evidence and reasoning, source integration, clarity, and grammar. My goal was to create a resource that demonstrates how generative AI can assist students in improving their writing independently, without relying on AI to "do the work" for them.