March 28, 2024

Let’s Chat About ChatGPT: UMW Faculty Perspectives on Emerging AI Technology

Associate Professor of Geography Caitie Finlayson uses ChatGPT to help generate and refine questions for her students.

Associate Professor of Geography Caitie Finlayson uses ChatGPT to help generate and refine questions for her students.

When you ask how UMW is using ChatGPT in the classroom, you’ll hear a variety of responses. Some students and faculty have yet to hear of the emerging AI technology. Some know it well and make use of it for their assignments whether instructors know it or not. Some say they’re being encouraged by their professors to use it wisely as part of the writing process.

Several UMW faculty gathered on Feb. 8, 2023, to share their professional and personal experience with ChatGPT in an open discussion jointly led by the Center for Teaching and Digital Learning Support.

Professor of Communication and Chair of the Department of Communication and Digital Studies Anand Rao kicked off the conversation, after spending a semester exploring and embracing ChatGPT in his debate and speech class.

“What are some of the possibilities? What’s the potential?” he asked. Read more.