Can’t make sense of the “Accelerated Course Conversions Roadmap”? ODU-AAUP “partners” with Chat-GPT to offer translation services.

Dear ODU-AAUP Colleagues:

I thought you might be interested to see one of the documents recently shared by DTT about the FFDTI (Accelerated Course Conversions Roadmap), along with how ChatGPT translated the document into plain English. 

Even ChatGPT – famously loathe to offer criticism – referred to the original document as a “very dense institutional roadmap.” At any rate, ChatGPT very quickly translated what was to me a completely incomprehensible original document into something an ordinary educated human (like me) could comprehend.  I was delighted!

ChatGPT also offered to create a summary list of what faculty should expect, what not to worry about and how long the process would take.  I happily accepted the offer.  The summary it produced was honestly very helpful, at least in my view.

BTW, the entire process took less than 10 minutes.  To me, that begs the question of why DTT’s AI experts didn’t do that on their own before sending the faculty the original document, which even ChatGPT bemoaned as “very dense.”  It’s a mystery. 

Enjoy,

Kate Hawkins, ODU-AAUP Vice President