ChatGPT has created a lot of confusion, fear, and also excitement among higher education leaders, faculty members and students. The immediate reaction from the campus community has been a cautious and in some cases punitive approach: preventing plagiarism by adopting plagiarism detection tools. While this approach can be effective at keeping professors in control and preventing student plagiarism, this approach will prevent us from identifying, exploring and utilizing the features and functions of machine learning tools for increasing operational efficiency and pedagogical creativity. This conversation will focus on challenges, adoption techniques, and opportunities within a philosophical, pedagogical, technical, research and policy/regulation framework.

Primary Presenter(s): 

Wendolyn Davis
Chattanooga State College

Secondary Presenter(s), if appropriate: 

Mehmet Adeniz
University of Tennessee, Knoxville