Berry College was recently selected to participate in the “Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum,” organized by the American Association of Colleges and Universities.
The academic year program helps colleges and universities navigate the challenges that artificial intelligence presents for the academic environment. It will involve monthly webinars to allow educators at the participating schools to interact and provide updates with each other. Each college’s team will be assigned a mentor from the institute who will provide expertise on the subject.
In a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article, Berry Provost David Slade noted that professors recognize the need to teach students how to use AI ethically and effectively. “Ethics and safety, in fact, thread through all of Berry’s goals. It wants to offer faculty members reliable tools to explore AI, it wants to keep people’s data private, and it wants to develop more sophisticated and supportive ways to talk about academic integrity,” says Slade.
AAC&U Vice President for Digital Innovation C. Edward Watson said the rapid emergence of generative AI has resulted in profound opportunities and challenges for nearly all disciplines in higher education.
“AI competencies and literacies are quickly emerging as necessary workforce skills. This demands that associated learning outcomes become a part of our curriculum; however, evoking AI into the classroom can create challenges regarding academic integrity and student learning.”
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Written by Public Relations Student Associate Abigail Dunagan
