Generative AI for Academics (Paperback)

Mark Carrigan

ISBN 10: 1529690390 / ISBN 13: 9781529690392

Published by SAGE Publications Ltd, London, 2024

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Paperback. This is your indispensable guide to navigating the rise of generative AI as an academic. It thoughtfully explores rapidly evolving AI capabilities reshaping higher education, examining challenges and ethical dilemmas across the sector.It provides useful strategies for using generative AI in your scholarly work while upholding professional standards. This practical guidance addresses four core areas of academic work:Thinking: How to use generative AI to augment individual and collaborative scholarly thinking that can assist in developing novel ideas and advancing impactful projectsCollaborating: Explore how generative AI can be used as a research assistant, coordinating teams and enhancing scholarly cooperationCommunicating: Cautioning against over-reliance, examine how generative AI can relieve communication burdens while maintaining professionalism and etiquetteEngaging: thoughtful and practical frameworks are offered for using these developments to support online engagement without sacrificing scholarly principlesDr Mark Carrigan is a digital sociologist, author and Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Manchester, where he is co-lead of the Digital Education Manchester group.***Unlock exclusive, time-limited access to our custom GPT, designed to deepen your engagement, when you purchase a copy of the book*** This is your indispensable guide to navigating the rise of generative AI as an academic. It thoughtfully explores rapidly evolving AI capabilities reshaping higher education, examining challenges and ethical dilemmas across the sector. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Generative AI for Academics (Paperback)
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1529690390
• ISBN 13: 9781529690392
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

This is your indispensable guide to navigating the rise of generative AI as an academic. It thoughtfully explores rapidly evolving AI capabilities reshaping higher education, examining challenges and ethical dilemmas across the sector.

It provides useful strategies for using generative AI in your scholarly work while upholding professional standards. This practical guidance addresses four core areas of academic work:

• Thinking: How to use generative AI to augment individual and collaborative scholarly thinking that can assist in developing novel ideas and advancing impactful projects
• Collaborating: Explore how generative AI can be used as a research assistant, coordinating teams and enhancing scholarly cooperation
• Communicating: Cautioning against over-reliance, examine how generative AI can relieve communication burdens while maintaining professionalism and etiquette
• Engaging: thoughtful and practical frameworks are offered for using these developments to support online engagement without sacrificing scholarly principles

Dr Mark Carrigan is a digital sociologist, author and Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Manchester, where he is co-lead of the Digital Education Manchester group.

***Unlock exclusive, time-limited access to our custom GPT, designed to deepen your engagement, when you purchase a copy of the book***

About the Author

Dr Mark Carrigan FRSA FHEA is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Manchester where he is co-lead of the Digital Education Manchester group. Trained as a philosopher and sociologist, his research aims to bridge fundamental questions of social ontology with practical and policy interventions to support the effective use of emerging technologies within education. He has written or edited nine books, including Social Media for Academics, published by Sage and now in its second edition.