AI's Emerging Role in Higher Ed Prompts Questions About Faculty and Student Partnerships
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Generative AI like ChatGPT can now develop course content and materials better than professors, changing the role of faculty.
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Students can use AI tools to reduce workloads and contrive learning outcomes, questioning the role of students.
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AI may make many aspects of online education fully automatable without human involvement.
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Accreditors need to rewrite rules to account for AI's growing role as a third member of the faculty/student partnership.
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Universities must redefine engagement and reinvent faculty and student roles as AI evolves from teaching assistant to curriculum boss.