Student Use of AI in Higher Ed

January 24, 2025 / Bill Reynolds

Students’ use of AI to complete assignments remains challenging for faculty members at FGCU and across the country. We know from the growing body of literature and the available resources about AI in education that there is no “one size fits all” solution to the issues with AI use, so it’s important that we maintain an ongoing dialogue about students’ use of AI and share resources that have been helpful to us. In that spirit, in this blog post you will find links to a series of three essays that explore AI detection, AI use by students, and AI conversations with students. In addition, if you are interested in learning more about how colleagues across the country are responding to AI use, integrating AI into their teaching, and other important topics related to AI in education, consider attending “Teaching and Learning with AI: A Sharing Conference Between Educational Practitioners” hosted by the University of Central Florida. This is the third conference of this type hosted by UCF since Chat GPT became available publicly a couple of years ago. This year the conference is being held in Orlando from May 28-30, and you can find registration information here - https://digitallearning.ucf.edu/teachwithai/registration/.

If you are interested in facilitating or contributing to a discussion about AI in education or have resources you’d like to share, please contact lucascenter@fgcu.edu.

The following essays were published in an online newsletter called AI + Education = Simplified from educator Dr. Lance Eaton. His posts explore what's going on in generative artificial intelligence and higher education in the hopes of making things simpler and clearer about what it means for what to do next. You can find the three posts mentioned above here: