Faculty Members Still Aren’t Sure What to Make of ChatGPT
As anxiety about ChatGPT continues to pervade higher ed, a recent survey suggests that most colleges, departments, and individual faculty members have yet to develop guidelines on how artificial intelligence should — or shouldn’t — be used in the classroom.Most professors surveyed were also not sure whether educators should encourage students to use ChatGPT, and not sure how they felt about their colleges’ efforts to deal with the consequences of the new technology. That’s a sign of the tool’s novelty: It debuted in November 2022, in the middle of the academic year.Emily Isaacs, executive director of the Office of Faculty Excellence at Montclair State University, said it’s likely that faculty members have found it difficult to consider — let alone adapt to — the quick-moving and dynamic...