Artificial intelligence in higher education

What role should artificial intelligence play in higher education? From ChatGPT to DeepSeek, generative AI (GenAI) tools of all kinds are forcing a rethink of university teaching, assessment, research and administrative work. Find out how to build AI literacy across an institution, use GenAI to support learning, harness AI tools as teaching and research assistants and manage the risks posed by GenAI and other AI technologies.

By dene.mullen, 16 August, 2023

Practical tips for designing activities using ChatGPT

Including generative AI in students’ learning is still in its early stages. Agustín Rodríguez Hernández provides general considerations he has picked up thus far

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3minutes

By Miranda Prynne, 15 August, 2023

ChatGPT and generative AI: 25 applications in teaching and assessment

A robot teacher in front of a blackboard

In the second part of their series looking at 100 ways to use ChatGPT in higher education, Seb Dianati and Suman Laudari share 25 prompts for such AI tools to assist with teaching and assessment

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5minutes

By sara.custer, 7 August, 2023

Campus talks: the AI university is coming

Universities on Fire climate change podcast

AI expert Ashok Goel is back on the podcast to help us understand the implications of ChatGPT for higher education and what will happen next

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38minutes

By Miranda Prynne, 7 August, 2023

An introduction to prompting generative AI like ChatGPT for teaching and learning

Illustration of human intelligence interacting with artificial intelligence

To fulfil its potential, generative artificial intelligence requires effective instructions. In the first of a five-part series, Seb Dianati and Suman Laudari explain how to craft a useful AI prompt

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3minutes

By dene.mullen, 3 August, 2023

Campus webinar: Artificial intelligence and academic integrity

Academics from Campus+ partner institutions discuss the impact that generative AI such as ChatGPT is having, and will have, on academic integrity

By Miranda Prynne, 20 July, 2023

How ChatGPT killed my discussion boards and prompted new prompts

Conceptual image of someone using AI generated knowledge

Advice on learning and discussion prompts that require students to think beyond the remit of AI responses

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4minutes

By Miranda Prynne, 13 July, 2023

Indigenous knowledge provides skills for lifelong learning that AI cannot

Indigenous Australian people perform a ritual of lighting a fire

Indigenous ways of knowing can provide skills and strategies for learning that could assist educators in addressing the climate emergency, decolonisation and balance the outsourcing of knowledge to AI, Alexandra Sherlock writes

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5minutes

By dene.mullen, 6 July, 2023

Teaching originality: an essential skill in the age of ChatGPT

Darwin and teaching originality in university

Academic originality is not about chance, genius or magic. It is about engagement and a clear sense of scholarly contribution. And it can be taught, writes Alastair Bonnett

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4minutes

By Eliza.Compton, 6 July, 2023

THE podcast: how to use generative AI in your teaching and research

Higher education is only beginning to understand the impact that generative AI tools such as ChatGPT will have on teaching and research. Three intrepid explorers join us in this episode to share what useful functions they’ve discovered for the technology

By Eliza.Compton, 27 June, 2023

Is critical thinking the answer to generative AI?

Three The Thinker statues around a laptop

Designing assessment that tests critical thinking has value and practicality, so the challenge is figuring out questions that flummox the AI without creating wildly difficult problems for students, write Luke Zaphir and Jason M. Lodge

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4minutes

Artificial intelligence in higher education