{"id":89343,"date":"2025-09-10T09:52:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=89343"},"modified":"2025-09-10T09:52:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:52:43","slug":"tilt-addresses-ai-in-education-at-ai-exchange-share-and-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=89343","title":{"rendered":"TILT addresses AI in education at AI Exchange Share and Learn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By RORY MOORE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tiger Media Network<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fort Hays State University\u2019s Teaching Innovation and Learning Technologies (TILT) staff hosted the AI Exchange Share and Learn workshop to meet with members of other departments inside Hammond Hall on Tuesday to discuss the rising value of AI skills in the job market and how it translates into academia. The meeting also addressed the concerns over the industries\u2019 expectations of the technology and enabling faculty to adapt to its characteristics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

University Director of Assessment Andrew Cutright noted the increasing need for AI skills among businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt’s relevant to what we do with educating students,\u201d he said. \u201cAI skills are starting to prop up and expand in what people would consider non-traditional IT roles (Project Manager, Business Analyst, etc.). Roles that require these skills, on average, are paying about $18,000 more [than other roles]. Some of these traditional human skills, like the ability to communicate and emotional intelligence, are becoming more important as AI is coming about because you need some sort of truth filter to an extent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instructional Technologist Magdalene Moy has led the initiative to guide faculty and students on the responsible use of AI as Chair of FHSU\u2019s Generative AI Task Force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEach department is approaching it differently,\u201d she said. \u201cTheir trajectory of professionals are using it in their field; social workers are using it for note-taking, but Applied Business has said the data for using it for CVs is not in their field. So, there\u2019s a difference in what the expectation is coming out of the workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One student who joined the meeting, Seth Tharo Hour, reflected on the expectation of those skills as he graduates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m in the process of applying to a lot of jobs,\u201d he said. \u201cThey didn\u2019t specifically mention the usage of AI in the job description, and they\u2019re mostly tech jobs. From talking to people working in those fields, they\u2019re using it every day, and there\u2019s a lot of AI jobs in the tech field, so I think it\u2019s something that\u2019s going to be big in the future. It\u2019s already big now, and it\u2019s getting better every year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forsyth Library Coordinator Jennifer Sauer mentioned the lack of experience in AI use that some departments have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo many people haven\u2019t done anything with it in a constructive way,\u201d she said. \u201cMaybe they\u2019ve played or toyed with it, but they\u2019ve not built their whole process around using it for a certain purpose that is core to their job.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moy emphasized how AI skills can differ between university and industry settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur faculty are faculty,\u201d Moy said. \u201cSeeing it in an industry is a different perspective. It\u2019s just an observation that there\u2019s a difference between when you work in an industry and can think about how it works into what you do every day versus how you teach students, but my concern is about using it inappropriately for class work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite that concern, Fort Hays\u2019 use of Gray DI has been effective in analyzing third-party data about various programs, BLS data, unemployment projections, how many students enroll at the university, and how much tuition dollars are generated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt makes things that are complex to understand very easy to return complex answers that might take you a while to dig through,\u201d Cutright said. \u201cYou can ask those questions in plain language, so it\u2019s powerful to be able to take numerical information and provide not only what the numbers are, but to graph the information and show a trend over five years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cutright noted how it helps students with their academics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou can upload everything about your course and have a chatbot they can work with,\u201d he said. \u201cIt provides them with endless opportunities to engage with the content in the way that makes sense for them, and I think that\u2019s powerful because now it\u2019s not relegated to five or eight emails. It eliminates any sort of intimidation that may or may not occur with students, but they can ask the questions the way it makes sense to them as customized learning based on information you share as an instructor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More AI resources can be found at https:\/\/www.fhsu.edu\/ai\/ai-resources-students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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