Episode 139: Automating Digital Teaching — What Can Go Wrong?

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Coffee Links:

• Single-origin El Salvador “La Siberia” from Beacon Coffee (Ventura, CA)

Content Links:

• [Journal Article from University of Louisville Faculty: In Frontiers in Education] “Racial, skin tone, and sex disparities in automated proctoring software” (Yoder-Himes et al., 2022)
• [Journal Article: In AI & Society] “The ethics of algorithms: key problems and solutions” (Tsamados et al., 2021)
• [Journal Article: In International Journal of Information Management] “‘So what if ChatGPT wrote it?’ Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy” (Dwivedi et al., 2023)
• [Journal Article: arXiv preprint] “GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers” (Liang et al., 2023)
• In the New Yorker: “Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?” (Chiang, 2023)

• In the New York Times: “When A.I. Chatbots Hallucinate”
• Info on Dr. Jutta Treviranus (quoted in this episode)
• Past TOPcast Episodes
  • Episode #46: Empowering Humans Through Learning Analytics
  • Episode #81: Technology Adoption as Enabling the “Right Thing”  
  • Episode #117: Online Discussion-Enhancement Tools  
  • Episode #119: Chatbots in Online Education 
  • Episode #131: ChatGPT: Friend or Foe?

Just for Fun Pop Culture Link

• 3 minute video: “Jon Lovitz Appears as the Pathological Liar on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show”                         

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• Video Version of this Episode!