April 2025 AI & Research
March 2025 AI & Syllabus Development
Below are some resources on AI tools, platforms and policies, broken down by category. These resources are discovered collaboratively through interdepartmental conversations.
ChatGPT: The most popular large language model from Open AI
Diffit for Teachers : Creating resources for education through AI
fotor : AI assisted photo editor
perplexity: AI powered search engine
notebooklm: AI powered multi-media research assistant
thebrain: "TheBrain Technologies helps people make sense of the wide range of information they need to organize and assimilate on a daily basis."
Claude ai : AI assistant
Abicus AI: Comprehensive AI platform
RWU LibGuide: AI Literacy and Critical Thinking
Elicit: AI tool for finding and summarizing research.
ResearchRabbit: Visual tool for exploring academic literature.
SemanticScholar: AI-powered academic search engine.
Refworks Citation Manager (RWU) - Tool for managing and citing references.
Scispace: AI assistant for reading and understanding papers.
notebooklm: AI notebook for analyzing your documents. (Google)
Goblin : "collection of small, simple, single-task tools, mostly designed to help neurodivergent people with tasks they find overwhelming or difficult."
Elicit.com : "Automate time-consuming research tasks like summarizing papers, extracting data, and synthesizing your findings."
Citation Machine : research paper and academic writing assistant
Chat PDF : AI assistant for analyzing academic research
Riding the AI Wave: Navigating Opportunities and Challenges in the Liberal Arts (.ppt) - The Council of Independent Colleges
Educause: AI Resources