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Co-Creating Generative AI Usage Policies for Students and Faculty

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Submitter: Lance Eaton, College Unbound

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The experiment:

I taught two 8-week sessions “AI and Education” in Spring 2023 with the intention of learning about and figuring out with students what does generative AI mean for education and how should that shape our policies around generative AI for students and faculty. The course had students–in real time–exploring the changes and updates, learning about the concerns and challenges of generative AI, and even using it to test it out and understand it better.

The first session developed a set of usage policies for facutly and students. In the second session, students tested out those policies against assignments in other courses to determine if they worked or not. From there, the policies were reviewed by faculty and will soon be accepted as institutional policy for College Unbound.

The goal was both for student to learn about and think about these tools as many are educators and also to help propose institutional guidelines for us. As an institution that works with adult students and centers students’ voice, this felt like the right way to explore and figure out what made sense for our students who are already engaged in work and navigating complex demands of life.

Results:

The course worked really well. Students were curious, excited, and appropriately challenged to engage with generative AI and think about it in a variety of learning contexts from their own children to their K-12 students (many were educators) to their own college experience. They felt empowered to learn more and have a stronger stake in what they were learning and trying to do. Many have continued to engage with these tools and their implications while also talking and writing about it more publicly.

The course itself is becoming the model for how we think about new technologies and processes within the college to do something that mutually benefits students and the institution in a collaborative manner.

When I teach the course again, I think getting to create the policies sooner than later and continue to iterate as we learn more is probably the biggest change I would make. It would make new information and learning more grounded and actionable going forward.

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