Are you interested in guiding student work in AI? Creating guardrails for students?
Consider a Custom GPT!
Look at this Video by Dr. Jennifer Trainor for an exploration of custom GPTs and their potential for teaching and learning.
What are custom GPTs? Why might they be better for teaching and learning than Chat GPT and other GenAI tools? Can custom GPTs better meet students’ learning needs and prevent well-documented problems with LLM use?
Get Started with Custom GPTs
Want to learn how to set it up yourself?
See this video by Ethan Cortes on how you can set up a Custom GPT for your course.
Additionally, see this tutorial by Graham Clay.
Look at this video by Dr. Brian Beatty on the various uses of Custom GPT
Be sure to pay attention to the prompts you use to keep students safe!
Look at this Quick Start Guide by Dr. Jennifer Trainor
for ethical prompting while creating your Custom GPTs
Read this Substack article by Dr. Jennifer Trainor
Interested in how faculty are building their own Custom GPTs?
Join us for a workshop on
Beyond the Basics on Custom GPTs on October 30, 2-3.30pm on Zoom.
Register Here
Join us in a hands-on workshop featuring brief presentations from faculty across the campus, who will share their experiences creating and using custom GPTs. You’ll see some demos of custom GPTs in action, and have plenty of time in guided break-out rooms to experiment with creating your own.
The panelists featured in this workshop are: Dr. Brian Beatty, ELSIT; Dr. Sameer Verma, ISYS; Dr. Yiwen Chen, Marketing; Amy Latham, Business Communication; Dr. Aviva Sinervo, Psychology; Dr. Zhuwei Qin & Dr. Zhaoshuo Jiang, School of Engineering.
Educate Yourself
Resources on Guardrails and safety
APA Calls for Guardrails for AI use for Adolescents
Without Guardrails AI Can Harm Education
Inside AI Addiction Support Groups
Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral
Is AI Bad for Students’ Mental Health?
Are Students Using Chat GPT? Or is Chat GPT Using Them?
AI Tutors Can Work, With the Right Guardrails
ChatGPT and the Homogenization of Language
Linguistic Bias in Chat GPT: Language Models Reinforce Dialect Discrimination
The New Artificial Intelligentsia
Bias and Racial Discrimination in AI
A Taxonomy of Epistemic Injustice in the Case of AI
Now You Are Speaking My Language: Why Minoritized LLMs Matter
Resources on automated and personalized support
Taylor, Patricia R., and Mark C. Marino. "On feedback from bots: intelligence tests and teaching writing." Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching 7.2 (2024): 110-117.
The Imperfect Tutor: Grading, Feedback and AI By Patricia Taylor, Inside Higher Ed, 2024.
Watters, Audrey. Teaching machines: The history of personalized learning. MIT Press, 2023.
Masters, K., Benjamin, J., Agrawal, A., MacNeill, H., Pillow, M. T., & Mehta, N. (2024). Twelve tips on creating and using custom GPTs to enhance health professions education. Medical Teacher, 46(6), 752–756.
Dong, Chenxi. "How to build an AI tutor that can adapt to any course and provide accurate answers using large language model and retrieval-augmented generation." (2023).
Maity, Subhankar, and Aniket Deroy. "Generative ai and its impact on personalized intelligent tutoring systems." (2024).
Enhancing Student Engagement with Custom GPTs by Sanjay Kallapur, AACSB (2024)