I worked as a management consultant for Price Waterhouse & Co. in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. As a recently minted MBA who was also a CPA, much of my work involved building financial forecasting models utilizing time sharing software. In October of 1979, VisiCorp released a product for the Apple II personal computer called VisiCalc.
Last week, I had one of those rare father-daughter moments when I took my 22-year-old daughters out to dinner. Our dinner discussions ranged from work to sports to concerts and maybe a few other topics. Somehow, the topic of ChatGPT surfaced.
Both of my daughters graduated from college in 2022, before ChatGPT was widely known. One of them mentioned that her friend(s) said that a tool was developed to detect ChatGPT for plagiarism in class assignments.
There are many books and research papers available with concepts and details for building online college courses. Rather than extracting a summary of best practices from any of those books, I queried ChatGPT. The essay below stems from its responses.
Designing Online College Courses
