Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Generative AI: from inspiration to policy guidelines

General AI

• “Ethical AI for Teaching and Learning”
• “Generative AI Tools and Their Uses for Teaching and Learning,” Skidmore College
• “Getting Started with AI” from the Harvard metaLab
• “Artificial Intelligence and the Significance Crisis” (Chronicle article)

• Stanford genAI site for educators—excellent “get myself aware and ready” resources

Inspired use of AI in the classroom

• Creative assignments from Harvard’s AI Pedagogy Project
• Lessons plans with AI from the University of Miami

Trouble-shooting problems caused by AI

• How to cite generative AI
• Essay-prompt design that encourages critical thinking: [ link to “Ask a Fox”]
• Bloom's Taxonomy alignment with AI: Advancing Meaningful Learning in the Age of AI – Artificial Intelligence Tools – Faculty Support | Oregon State Ecampus | OSU Degrees Online
• Cautionary tale: Detection of AI Cheating is Unreliable and a Distraction (linkedin.com).
• Alternate assessments (while framed to advertise Cengage’s products, this article offers good AI-resistant assessment design)
• “Teachable Moment”
• “ChatGPT Has Changed Our Teaching: Readers Tell Us How” Chronicle of Higher Education, 12/23

Policies, Syllabi statements

• Hamilton College’s institutional guidelines for AI
• Proposed code of conduct from Harvard’s metaLab
• Proposed guidelines from Cornell
• Sample syllabi statements from Skidmore College

Inclusive Teaching and Learning: enacting DEI pedagogy

• HWS Disabilities Services Guide for Faculty and Staff
• Inclusive Teaching: Universal Design for Learning
  
  • Basic guide
  • Brain research
  • Deep-dive
• Educational accessibility as a DEI issue (AAC&U article)

Course Design: HWS-specific and general design guidelines

HWS-specific

• Learning Objectives, writing effective objectives at HWS
• Student Learning Feedback Form (SLFF), the OAFA guide to creating, posting, and using
  • The SLFF outline makes an excellent template for good course design!
• CoAA-recommended list of common elements in syllabi (PDF page 16, document page 65)
• Canvas resources, help, and more
• HWS Teaching Policies (faculty handbook, Part II, PDF page 14, document page 63)

General

• Inclusive Teaching: Universal Design for Learning - Basic guide
• “Designing Your Course” (from the Derek Bok Center at Harvard University)
• Critical Teaching Behaviors framework for course design (adapted from Critical Teaching Behaviors by Barbeau & Happel, 2023)
• “Foundations of Course Design” (Stanford)

Academic Peer Mentors at HWS: these academic peer mentors can complement your teaching

• Writing Fellows (drop-in and appointment writing help for any student in any course)
• Study mentors (time-management and study help for any student)
• Teaching Fellows (content help in specific departments)
• Athletic study mentors (team-embedded time-management and study help)
• First-year mentors (embedded in each First-year Seminar course): FSEM instructors and student can rely on their embedded first-year mentor for support as students transition to college-level learning and the demands of HWS as an institution.

HWS Student Learning Feedback Form (SLFF)

• The OAFA guide to creating, posting, and using
• SLFF Learning Objectives, writing effective

CTL Lending Library

CTL’s extensive teaching and learning library offers

• pragmatic how-to guides on multiple teaching methodologies from capstone design to discussion techniques, as well as advising,
• teaching-issue texts (learner-centered pedagogy, social justice issues, and more),
• perspectives on teaching in the academy as a workplace issue, 
• and more.

For specific loans, please stop into the CTL.  To see collection highlights, please look below!

Collection Highlights

• Critical Teaching Behaviors: Defining, Documenting, and Discussing Good Teaching.  Barbeau & Happel.  Stylus 2023.
  • A useful, flexible framework for describing and delivering “good” teaching.
• The Discussion Book: 50 Great Ways to Get People Talking. Brookfield & Preskill, eds.  Jossey-Bass, 2016.
  • 50 fast ideas for invigorating class discussion.
• Designing and Teaching Undergraduate Capstone Courses.  Hauhart & Grahe.  Jossey-Bass 2015.
  • Pitfalls, guidelines, and must-haves for capstone course design.
• Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice.  Maryellen Weimer.  Jossey-Bass, 2013
  • How to approach teaching as a learning opportunity.
• Engaging Ideas: The Professor’s Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom.  John C. Bean. Jossey-Bass, 2023 (new edition!)
  • Essential resource for FSEM instructors and anyone who wishes to use writing and active learning as methods for teaching critical thinking.
• The New Advisor Guidebook: Mastering the Art of Academic Advising.  Folsom, Pat et al. eds.  Jossey-Bass 2015.
  • Eight advising frameworks adaptable by any academic advisor.
• Teaching First-year Students. Erickson et al., eds.  Jossey-Bass 1999.
  • Chapter 2, “Intellectual Development in College,” can save instructors many headaches.
• Effective Grading: A Tool for Learning and Assessment. Walvoord & Anderson.  Jossey-Bass 1998.
  • “Assessment” as learning-evaluation.
• Classroom Assessment Techniques.  Angelo & Cross.  Jossey-Bass 1993.
  • The holy book of methods (many!) for evaluating student learning.
• Assessment Clear and Simple: A Practical Guide for Instituions, Departments, and General Education.  Jossey-Bass 2010
  • “Assessment” as student-learning assessment: how to measure and articulate success in teaching/learning across majors, departments, and student groups.
• Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice. Adams et al., eds.  Routledge 2016.
• Introduction to Rubrics.  Stevens & Levi.  Stylus 2005.
  • A comprehensive guide to creating effective rubrics for student assignments and evaluation.
• VALUE Rubrics.  Rhodes, eds.  AAC&U.  2010.
  • Quick templates for key liberal-arts college learning goals like “creative thinking,” “teamwork,” “life-long learning,” “oral expression,” “writing,” and more.
• The First-Generation Student Experience. Implications for Campus Practice, and  Strategies for Improving Persistence and Success.  Stylus 2010.
  • A comprehensive look at first-gen student experience, with guidelines on pedagogy that benefits all students.
• Teaching to Transgress.  hooks.  Routledge 1994.
  • hooks’ most influential text of essays on learner-centered, activist pedagogy.