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Teaching Faculty Skepticism about Generative AI

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Maxwell Gray (he/him)

Digital Scholarship Librarian

Raynor Library | Marquette University

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Lightning talk

Collaboration with the Center for Teaching and Learning:

  • Strategies/tactics for collaborations beyond the library

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Professional development opportunities for faculty/educators:

  • Session formats and themes/topics about generative AI

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Collaboration contexts

University context:

  • Strong faculty interest in AI and teaching and learning

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Digital Scholarship Lab context:

  • Historically speaking, low attendance at workshop sessions

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Center for Teaching and Learning context:

  • High attendance at workshop sessions, retreats, symposia

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Collaboration beginnings

Connecting with collaborators:

  • Director of Academic Integrity
  • AI4AI Lab (College of Communication)
  • Center for Teaching and Learning
  • Foundations in Rhetoric (Department of English)

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  • Coffee, connections, and brainstorming

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Collaboration beginnings

Connecting with collaborators:

  • Director of Academic Integrity
  • AI4AI Lab (College of Communication)
  • Center for Teaching and Learning
  • Foundations in Rhetoric (Department of English)

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  • Mission, strategy, and priority alignments

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Collaboration as community

Community of practice:

  • Fall 2024 semester
  • AI and teaching and learning
  • 7 leaders/facilitators from 5 different units
  • 18 participants from 17 different units
  • Discernment, education and community

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Collaboration as content sharing

Workshop series:

  • Spring 2025 semester
  • “Designing assignments with generative AI in mind: establishing and communicating expectations for students”
  • “How—and when—to speak with students about generative AI: strategies for dialogue and discussion”
  • “Evaluating student work with generative AI in mind: developing and applying new expectations for human products”

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Collaboration as conversation

Conversation series:

  • 2025-2026 academic year
  • Conversations about and around generative AI
  • AI, Jesuit higher education and Ignatian pedagogy
  • 7 presenters from 5 different units (5 NTT faculty and 2 staff)
  • Presentation, reflection and conversation together
  • Between community, content and conversation

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Takeaways

“I enjoyed the event, but I just felt like I didn't necessarily have a take-away. Mostly just more things to think about.”

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