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The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI – Dr Tricia Bertram Gallant and Dr David Rettinger 16.00-17.00 26 Mar 2025 Part of the Academic Integrity online webinar series Feb/Mar 2025 Join us for a transformative session focused on integrity in education. We will explore research insights into why students engage… Read more » about The Opposite of Cheating – Academic Integrity online webinar series
We’re continuing to share examples from our Student AI Literacy series of exercises, created by FLIE for you to use with your students to help develop their AI literacy. Each exercise is designed to be led within a classroom environment with students undertaking a guided hands-on activity, improving skills such as prompting and evaluating AI… Read more » about Student AI Literacy resources – AI as negotiating counterpart
We’re continuing to share examples from our Student AI Literacy series of exercises, created by FLIE for you to use with your students to help develop their AI literacy. Each exercise is designed to be led within a classroom environment with students undertaking a guided hands-on activity, improving skills such as prompting and evaluating AI… Read more » about Student AI literacy exercises – AI as prompt engineer
What can GenAI tell us about why students cheat? – Dr Thomas Lancaster 14.00-15.00 20 Mar 2025 Part of the Academic Integrity online webinar series Feb/Mar 2025 The problem of why students cheat is one of the most studied in academic integrity. Thomas will discuss how he has used GenAI to help to process existing… Read more » about What can GenAI tell us about why students cheat? -Academic Integrity online webinar series
Future-proofing Academic Integrity: Human Rights and Dignity in a Postplagiarism Era – Prof Sarah Elaine Eaton 15.00-16.00 12 Mar 2025 Part of the Academic Integrity online webinar series Feb/Mar 2025 New technologies can send educators and policy makers into a tizzy about academic cheating. It happened with the Internet and it’s happening again with artificial… Read more » about Future-proofing Academic Integrity – Academic Integrity online webinar series
Professor Lydia Arnold shared some inspiring insights in her AI Summit Keynote last week. Professor Arnold took us on a fascinating journey, starting with her research in assessment design and exploring the multifaceted layers of authenticity in assessments. She shared invaluable insights on the importance of developing feedback literacy processes with students, and cautioning us… Read more » about BU AI Summit part 2 – slides and recording
We’re continuing to share examples from our Student AI Literacy series of exercises, created by FLIE for you to use with your students to help develop their AI literacy. Each exercise is designed to be led within a classroom environment with students undertaking a guided hands-on activity, improving skills such as prompting and evaluating AI… Read more » about Student AI literacy exercises – AI as a coach
AI Detectors: At best, buying us a little time to get our act together? – Dr Robin Crockett 15.00-16.00 6 Mar 2025 Part of the Academic Integrity online webinar series Feb/Mar 2025 AI ‘writers’ – chatbots – continue to improve and the text-quality continues to get closer to human equivalence, posing even more questions about… Read more » about AI Detectors – Academic Integrity online webinar series
Ramadan is the 9th month of the Islamic calendar. It’s considered one of the most spiritual times of the year and signifies the time during which the Qur’an was revealed. Different people will be celebrating Ramadan in various ways. Many Muslims find Ramadan is a time where their usual spiritual practice increases, whilst other Muslims find… Read more » about Ramadan: How to support our Muslim colleagues and students
Studiosity have teamed up with Universities UK to offer a free trial of their AI study success service ‘Writing Feedback Plus & Study Assist’. The tool provides AI-generated feedback for students on their formative assessments. Students apply the changes themselves and learn as they go. The feedback covers 5 main areas: spelling and grammar, structure,… Read more » about Free trial of Studiosity formative feedback tool
