Since November 2022 when ChatGPT 3 made its debut, we in the Teaching and Learning Center have been reading, watching, and listening to a multitude of sources to stay current and to bring you the best information we can on a rapidly changing topic. Here are some of the folks whose work has influenced us the most on Generative A.I.   

Sarah Eaton is a professor at the Werklund School of Education for the University of Calgary in Canada and has written a fascinating piece on a post-plagiarism that inspired much of the TLC’s early AI work around cheating and academic integrity.  

Leon Furze first came to our attention with work on ethics and generative A.I. but he is a prolific writer on several A.I. in education topics including assessment.    

Ted Underwood is a professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign who combines English and large data science expertise when sharing about AI. Ted tends to be more active with AI commentary on social media.    

Ethan Mollick is an associate professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania who posts daily on LinkedIn about the cutting edge of AI. He is a strong AI evangelist and often has early access to new models.   

Marc Watkins is the Director of the Mississippi AI Institute and a Lecturer of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Mississippi who was paying attention to generative A.I. before ChatGPT 3 arrived in November 2022.   

Some others for you to check out include:

• Jason Gulya – the 2024 RECAP keynote speaker
• John Nash – friend of the ODLI on Air podcast with a K-12 AI focus 
• Bryan Alexander – higher education futurist and past RECAP keynote speaker 
• Derek Bruff – higher education teaching and learning leader who both blogs and podcasts on AI topics

Finally at the local level we in TLC have been most influenced by the work of Andy Famiglietti in the English department and Eryn Travis in the Communications and Media department.  

Do you have someone whose work on AI you have found insightful and useful?  Share it with us by emailing your assigned instructional designer or TLC@wcupa.edu.