Ready or not, AI is in your classroom
Faculty are experimenting with ways to include artificial intelligence in their curriculum and allowing students to use AI platforms in their work.
For Health Sciences faculty, artificial intelligence in the classroom has expanded beyond the use of plagiarism checkers to ChatGPT helping to write papers or even creating sample exam questions.
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The University of Arizona is actively integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into classrooms across disciplines. Faculty are using tools like ChatGPT to streamline tasks such as generating exam questions, with promising results around half of the AI-created questions required little to no revision. The College of Nursing is also leveraging AI to create interactive learning modules, increasing student engagement and improving outcomes.
To support responsible AI adoption, the university’s Data Science Institute is developing AI VERDE—a secure, accurate platform designed to help educators incorporate large language models into teaching. Faculty are shifting from viewing AI as a threat to academic integrity to seeing it as a powerful educational tool, emphasizing thoughtful, ethical use that enhances learning while maintaining academic standards.