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Generative AI in Higher Education: AI Tools for Research and Teaching

AI tools

Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini can all create all types of exam questions. They can also create rubrics and grade based on a rubric. 
Quizgecko Automatically generate online quizzes, tests, and exams to level up your learning.
Research Rabbit -  Identifies the most influential papers in a topic/field.

Perplexity.ai is an AI-powered chatbot search engine. It answers your questions with the sources cited using multiple frontier models.

Consensus.app is an academic research tool that limits its data search to the 200M published papers in Semantic Scholar and uses AI (ChatGPT) to allow you to filter by claims, methodology, sample size and more. It includes a “consensus meter” that provides an estimate of the consensus in the published literature. Here is the result when asking “do brain games work?”

Storm (short for brainstorm) is a new research tool from Stanford that creates a Wikipedia-like report on the topic of your choice. It looks at more than just Semantic Scholar publications. It will write/summarize from different perspectives (ex. sociologist vs political scientist) and tell you what sources it used. Compare the results and format with what you get from Consensus. EXAMPLE FOR SEARCH - TRY  Airlines Disruption 

Here is a comparison of Consensus and Storm answering the question “do polls predict elections?”

SciSpace also has similar functions but with a broader suite of tools, like a paraphraser that rewrites or helps explain passages (something you can also find in ExplainPaper.) All four of these are essential lit review tools.

Scite extracts citations and uses AI to analyze if they are cited with support or contradiction in other papers. Upload a pdf or your citations and find out quickly about the impact of the work.

NotebookLM is Googles version of a research assistant but it works only on the documents (up to 50) you upload (up to 500,000 words EACH). Try uploading a book and asking for a study guide or an interactive podcast.

Gradescope - Grading software offers tools for grading written exams, homework assignments, and auto-grading submitted code. 
Education CoPilot - Streamline your planning and prep with AI-generated templates for lesson plans, writing prompts, educational handouts, student reports, project outlines and lots more.
Opus.clip - OpusClip is a generative AI video tool that repurposes long videos into shorts in one click.
ChatTube - Allows you to chat with YouTube videos in real-time using AI - ask questions, get summaries, pinpoint key points, translate content, and so much more!
Example of how AI can create a complex simulation game for your students in second. Copy and Paste the text below into ChatGPT and see what happens!:
Create a presidential simulation game about the relationship between the economy and actions of the US President. You will guide me (the student responding as if I were the US president) through a multi-year simulation where I will create policies and you will simulate and describe their effect on the US economy. Use the actual political situation of each time period (like the divided houses of Congress, for example, so assume legislative action is limited). Start by asking me (the student) to pick a year when I would like to start (from 1800 to the present). Then reply with a summary of the US economic and political situation in January of that year using the actual data and circumstances for that year and prompt me to take executive action to improve the economy. If I am stuck and ask for suggestions, then you can propose several choices. Do not allow me to propose action which is not constitutionally or legally possible for the President of the United States (who is only the executive and cannot create new laws and does not control the Federal Reserve, for example). Point out if my proposed actions exceed US Presidential power and cite the sources for these limitations. Do not make suggestions unless I get stuck or ask for them. Vary the types of choices you offer so I will get a sense of the variety of Presidential powers in relationship to the US economy. Once I have suggested a possible US Presidential action, assess my strategy and describe how the US economy would change as a result over the next three months. Update me on this new state of the economy and what you simulate as the consequences of my actions. Prompt me again to take action and repeat this process. Continue with this sequence of prompting me to take action and then describing the consequences, advancing the time every three months for up to four years total. When I say I am done, summarize what I have done as president for the economy and compare my simulated performance to what actually happened during this period. Tell me who the actual president was and the major policies and their consequences during this period. Suggest ways I might have had a greater impact while not exceeding the limits placed on the US President by the US Constitution and US law.