ChatGPT learning series for faculty

Wake Forest’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching, the Office of Online Education, and the Instructional Technology Group are offering a series of workshops and seminars for faculty to explore ChatGPT as a teaching tool.

Faculty can review the topics covered and register for one or all eight 1-hour sessions here. The first session will be held on Monday, Feb. 27 from noon to 1 p.m.

Both virtual and in-person sessions are offered, and the content will be the same in either mode.

The series is co-facilitated by Betsy Barre Executive Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching, Professor of Education Adam Friedman, and Instructional Designer Donohon Abdugafurova in the University’s Office of Online Education.

Participants will discuss a wide range of topics around ChatGPT as it relates to academic honesty, student learning and as a tool for teachers.

The goal is to help faculty develop a better understanding of the tool, its pros and cons, how it might be useful in teaching, and perhaps how it might be useful to students without taking away from academic integrity.

Most sessions are held during the lunch hour, and attendees are welcome to bring their lunch to the sessions.

ChatGPT has huge implications for student learning, and there have been wide-ranging conversations about the pros and cons of its use, as well as whether it should be regulated in an academic setting. There have also been conversations on how it might be used to support good teaching. As many have noted, it can be useful as a tool for explaining or re-explaining complicated material in ways that make sense to the individual student, or even lend a hand with course design.

Faculty interested in attending one or more of these sessions may want to review Barre’s blog post, “Will ChatGPT make us better, happier teachers?” and “ChatGPT and Online Teaching and Learning,” posted by the Office of Online Education.