Artificial intelligence in higher education
The brief launch of an app promising to attend students’ lectures as well as write their assignments caused some academics to despair at a dystopian near-future in which learning becomes a pointless sham. But others believe the abyss can be bypassed. Juliette Rowsell reports
The issues concerning AI and copyright are far more complicated than the ‘Big Music v Big Tech’ paradigm presented in the media, says Benjamin White
Academics raise concerns over ChatGPT owner’s links to US military and claim tools are ‘looking to replace knowledge workers’
If AI amplifies what you bring to it, the liberal arts mission of developing critical thinkers becomes not nostalgia but practical necessity, says Nicholas Creel
Full automation may be possible in narrow cases, but it is neither realistic nor desirable as a general model, say Bashir M. Al-Hashimi and Nick Jennings
‘Expert review’ function that promises feedback ‘inspired by’ work of well-known scholars faces growing backlash over claims it ‘misrepresents views’
Latest survey of UK undergraduates’ attitudes to new technologies shows little agreement on whether huge increase in usage has been a good thing
Humans’ epistemic arrogance belies the fact that subject knowledge is always incomplete and cognitive bandwidth is strictly finite, says Prince Sarpong
If we treat AI as a purely rational evolution of human intelligence, we risk repeating colonial erasure on a digital scale, says Agnieszka Piotrowska
We cannot bureaucratise our way into producing better thinkers, any more than we can automate wisdom, says Akhil Bhardwaj
New tool promising to watch lectures and complete assignments for students abruptly taken down amid concerns about cheating and data protection
Universities encouraged to develop new sites in flagship Northern Metropolis development, backed by increased government funding
Worries over admitting ChatGPT use for editing and drafting may explain extremely low disclosure rates, study suggests
Partnership with ETS will replace 20-year-old traditional entry exam with modular, skills-based assessment as part of bid to modernise national system
Framing this technology as a helpful ‘tool’ disguises how much it guides every element of critical thinking that academics seek to cultivate, says James Garvey
Increased use of new technologies accompanied by rising fear of being accused of cheating, with many universities’ policies on what is acceptable still unclear
Investing in sector by focusing on new technologies can combat brain drain and help institutions escape from their reliance on the West, say experts
Rapid growth in number of students studying AI courses reflects its cultural prominence but experts warn content could lack rigour and quickly become outdated
Grande école embarks on biggest redevelopment for more than 50 years amid changing enrolment patterns and disruptions to traditional teaching models
After filling the map with overseas campuses, central Asian country targets research links and technological innovation
New flagship institution intended to rival region’s best faces lengthy delays as highly ambitious plans to create sustainable city in the desert unravel
Ever more processes rely on artificial intelligence, yet our governance is still stuck at the level of ‘is it OK for students to use ChatGPT in essays?’, says Tom Smith
The claim that AI can’t make meaning contradicts what researchers are finding when they put these tools to careful, critical use, says James Goh
Quarter of institutions admit they don’t know if PhD candidates are working with AI, while only a small proportion say they are coming up with guidelines on its use
It is vital to examine what chatbots’ behaviour reveals about their underlying structures – and human responses to them, says Agnieszka Piotrowska
Maybe I need to drop the illusion that I can spot AI-written text and, instead, devise assignments that AI can’t help with, says David Mingay
We need a holistic approach that teaches students not just to use AI but to survive its psychological terrain, say Sean McMinn and Nick McIntosh
The various reactions to my recent article on universities’ tardy AI adoptance underlines their allergy to internal transformation, says Ian Richardson
If a student feels remembered by a machine but overlooked by humans, something in the educational contract has broken, says Agnieszka Piotrowska
Without exemptions for commercial as well as academic data mining, the government’s AI for Science Strategy will fall flat, says Benjamin White
Employers in many industries may soon conclude they can train, assess and credential employees more effectively than universities can, warns Ali Hindi
While new technologies seen as ‘game changer’ for national-level research assessment, study finds vehement opposition, particularly among humanities scholars
Institutions urged to take a step back and think about what they are trying to achieve before ‘jumping on AI bandwagon’
We need memorable concepts targeting specific types of problematic AI output or use, not blanket moral judgements, says Andrew J. Routledge
Academics warn recall-based exams are ‘obsolete’ and policing AI is ‘unrealistic’ after hundreds admit manipulating online exam at Yonsei University
Conversations around cheating ‘misguided’ because students want technology to assist learning, not give them the answers, education lead at tech giant says
It is difficult to think of another sector that has so dismally failed to strategically engage with the transformative potential of IT, says Ian Richardson
Promises of more personalised education may stifle students’ ability to grow and change, according to UCL provost
Technology can be used to offer vital research experience and create inclusive curricula, according to physicist Jess Wade
To protect critical, context-rich thinking in HE, knowledge agency must be quickly reclaimed from Big Edtech, say Dirk Lindebaum and Gazi Islam
Survey of more than 3,000 researchers by Cambridge University Press reveals widespread concerns over the rise of ChatGPT-assisted papers
Institutions should retrain staff affected now rather than ‘sustain jobs which machines can do better and cheaper’, expert argues
Most prospective students have at least three countries in the frame, survey finds
Clear policies, transparent disclosure and shared accountability are essential to protect the integrity of research, says George Chalhoub
Divergent attitudes towards the use of AI in assessments risks weakening the credibility of academic certifications and driving mistrust between students and teachers
Can AI match the insights of human referees? We don’t know. So before implementation, let’s run the experiment, says Sheldon H. Jacobson
Poll finds most students see generative technology as a support tool, but small minority use it for entire assessment submissions
Reversing some recent trends in teaching and learning is sure to generate mixed responses from students. Regulators must step in, says Ian Pace
Aston and Leeds plan to create resources and training tools for students, supervisors and examiners
Failure to explain how AI-aided academic writing is a form of plagiarism leaves graduate students horribly compromised, says E.M. Wolkovich
Fears raised over ‘culturally encouraged introversion’ but could study assistants help bridge gap between universities and Silicon Valley?
Asking undergraduates to submit pen-on-paper essays is a desperate and retrograde step that undermines assessment rather than safeguards it, says Dan Sarofian-Butin
As an editor, I am receiving submissions from spurious authors consisting of previously published papers altered by AI. But why, asks Seongjin Hong
OpenAI builds tool to combat student reliance on AI answers, but insists that cheating requires ‘holistic’ approach from universities and tech firms
‘Huge potential’ for higher education to tap into ‘massive pool of interested students’, finds report
Ombudsman tells universities to be mindful of ‘limitations’ of detection tools and to consider if they are biased against international students
