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 Eliza.Compton, 25 June, 2024

RIP assessment?

Illustration of human and robot in an arm wrestle
How can educators make learning and human intelligence visible in the age of GenAI? Abby Osborne and Christopher Bonfield outline a model to rethink assessment and reward non-AI knowledge and understanding
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4minutes
By Laura.Duckett, 13 June, 2024

Enhance GenAI collaboration for future-proof research support

Human and AI working together
Embrace the possibilities of generative AI in research support with a strategic mindset. Ryan Henderson, Ayla Kruis and Tse-Hsiang Chen share their practical framework for successful human-AI collaboration
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5minutes
By miranda.prynne, 11 June, 2024

Get your students workplace-ready

Spotlight guide: Get students workplace ready
With the shape of the future job market harder to predict than ever before, here’s how to prepare your students with transferable skills and digital literacy, ready them for job applications and strengthen your university career services
By Eliza.Compton, 3 June, 2024

Talking to students about AI

robot tin can telephone
Socio-economic, cultural, geographic and other factors mean that some students know more about AI than others, and we can’t have an effective discussion about AI and academic integrity until we all know what we’re talking about, writes John Weldon
By Eliza.Compton, 17 May, 2024

The (AI) sky isn’t falling

Robot hand typing
Students using generative AI to write their essays is a problem, but it isn’t a crisis, writes Christopher Hallenbrook. We have the tools to tackle the issue of artificial intelligence
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4minutes
Artificial intelligence in higher education