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 Miranda Prynne, 31 August, 2022

The potential of artificial intelligence in assessment feedback

Two people looking through assessment feedback

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to improve the way students receive assessment feedback. Elizabeth Ellis explores some of the ways in which AI can help students

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5minutes

By Eliza.Compton, 26 July, 2022

Go green, AI!

Can artificial intelligence be as green as it is integral to solving complex problems? As universities integrate courses on AI into different fields, they also need to show students its risks and costs, particularly for the environment

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4minutes

By dene.mullen, 12 January, 2022

Missing face-to-face interaction? Try becoming a ‘hologram professor’

The hologram professor project beams a life-sized video of university lecturers into classrooms

Beaming a hologram of lecturers into classrooms offers greater closeness than video systems, say Carla Victoria Ramírez López, Leticia Castaño Sánchez and Patricia Aldape Valdés

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3minutes

By dene.mullen, 4 October, 2021

How AI and chatbots can deliver personalised career planning

Chatbots can be vital tools for university careers services, with one-to-one discussions set to become a thing of the past

The development of careers chatbots could be considered a threat to guidance practitioners, but the reverse is true, says Caroline Tolond

Artificial intelligence in higher education