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Placing selfhood construction at the centre of social justice provides a useful lens to view emerging ethical debates around Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) and beyond. Selfhood...
As artificial intelligence (AI) programs such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini become increasingly integrated into student work processes, universities are confronted with an uncomfortable question....
Generative AI (GAI) has sparked debate among academics. Some see its potential to boost productivity and simplify tasks, while others worry it could undermine rigorous scholarship. Currently, most...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly present in debates about education, including at policy level. Earlier this year, the UK Education Secretary (with responsibility for education in...
The rise of educational technology (EdTech) has transformed the learning landscape, with generative artificial intelligence (AI) offering a new frontier in personalised and accessible education...
Generative AI (GAI) is a form of AI that utilises machine learning and deep learning techniques to generate new data (such as text and images) (Yu et al., 2023). However, teachers’ application...
Academic outputs, conference and journal papers, are the primary mode of communication for academics, whether with other researchers, policymakers, or practitioners and the wider public. Scholarly...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming education. Effective integration of AI into higher education (HE) can scaffold students and academics with attributes to thrive within the competitive...
Introduction The rapid emergence of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT has already transformed the landscape of higher education (HE), offering learners resources to...
Our research indicates that the landscape of responsible AI use in education is uneven. Tight school budgets necessitate careful planning for teachers’ professional development, prompting us to...
The rise of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools has sparked significant debate within the academic community (for a systematic mapping review see Yusuf et al., 2024). These...
UNESCO defines artificial intelligence (AI) as ‘systems which display intelligent behaviour by analysing their environment and taking actions – with some degree of autonomy – to achieve...
GenAI and its pedagogical potential The introduction of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has sparked a debate in the higher education sector about its benefits and pitfalls, as well as...
As we navigate through a significant technological paradigm shift, particularly in the education and healthcare sectors, my new book (Krumsvik, 2023) delves into the intricacies of artificial...
As generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT become embedded within higher education (HE), we must ask not only how they shape student practices but also how they shift our...
Continue reading blog postPlacing selfhood construction at the centre of social justice provides a useful lens to view emerging ethical debates around Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) and beyond. Selfhood...
Continue reading blog postAs artificial intelligence (AI) programs such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini become increasingly integrated into student work processes, universities are confronted with an uncomfortable question....
Continue reading blog postGenerative AI (GAI) has sparked debate among academics. Some see its potential to boost productivity and simplify tasks, while others worry it could undermine rigorous scholarship. Currently, most...
Continue reading blog postArtificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly present in debates about education, including at policy level. Earlier this year, the UK Education Secretary (with responsibility for education in...
Continue reading blog postThe rise of educational technology (EdTech) has transformed the learning landscape, with generative artificial intelligence (AI) offering a new frontier in personalised and accessible education...
Continue reading blog postGenerative AI (GAI) is a form of AI that utilises machine learning and deep learning techniques to generate new data (such as text and images) (Yu et al., 2023). However, teachers’ application...
Continue reading blog postAs AI technologies like ChatGPT become more accessible, balancing innovation, academic integrity and ethics is crucial. While these tools enhance learning, they also raise concerns about...
Continue reading blog postAcademic outputs, conference and journal papers, are the primary mode of communication for academics, whether with other researchers, policymakers, or practitioners and the wider public. Scholarly...
Continue reading blog postArtificial intelligence (AI) is transforming education. Effective integration of AI into higher education (HE) can scaffold students and academics with attributes to thrive within the competitive...
Continue reading blog postSentience–sapience relations are of particular interest because they contribute to determinations of what a human being is, how human beings are different from other animals, meanings that we...
Continue reading blog postIntroduction The rapid emergence of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT has already transformed the landscape of higher education (HE), offering learners resources to...
Continue reading blog postOur research indicates that the landscape of responsible AI use in education is uneven. Tight school budgets necessitate careful planning for teachers’ professional development, prompting us to...
Continue reading blog postThere has been a significant increase in interest in artificial intelligence (AI) in education. As an engaged researcher in educational approaches, I’ve encountered a wide range of perspectives...
Continue reading blog postThe rise of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools has sparked significant debate within the academic community (for a systematic mapping review see Yusuf et al., 2024). These...
Continue reading blog postThe rise of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT has generated significant discourse within the educational sector (Ng et al., 2024). Initially met with apprehension...
Continue reading blog postUNESCO defines artificial intelligence (AI) as ‘systems which display intelligent behaviour by analysing their environment and taking actions – with some degree of autonomy – to achieve...
Continue reading blog postEducational digital assistants designed to understand and support students emotionally as well as academically are increasingly becoming a vital tool in learning environments. These assistants are...
Continue reading blog postIt’s 2030 – technological advancements continue at a rapid pace through artificial intelligence (AI) and digital developments, displacing businesses, disrupting business models and automating...
Continue reading blog postGenerative AI has been widely debated within educational settings, particularly around academic integrity, leading to educator apprehension about its use in teaching and learning. However, support...
Continue reading blog postGenAI and its pedagogical potential The introduction of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has sparked a debate in the higher education sector about its benefits and pitfalls, as well as...
Continue reading blog postThis blog post highlights the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) aligned with how the higher education (HE) sector needs to adjust assessment strategies and academic integrity policies to...
Continue reading blog postArtificial intelligence (AI) can bring immediate and long-term benefits, but also challenges and risks to education systems (UNESCO, 2023). This is a hotly contested topic in English language...
Continue reading blog postThe launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 marked a potential turning point in higher education. As a prime example of generative AI, capable of creating content and solving problems in previously...
Continue reading blog postIn his seminal paper in 1950, ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’, Alan Turing raised the question: ‘Can machines think?’. Igniting debates among both philosophers and computer...
Continue reading blog postSocrates famously held a low opinion of writing, believing it encouraged superficial understanding. True understanding, he argued, requires face-to-face dialogue. This is not found on the written...
Continue reading blog postLanguage models, such as ChatGPT, Google Bard, claude.ai and pi.ai, are artificial intelligence-powered chatbots that generate intelligent-sounding text when responding to user prompts. Students...
Continue reading blog postAs we navigate through a significant technological paradigm shift, particularly in the education and healthcare sectors, my new book (Krumsvik, 2023) delves into the intricacies of artificial...
Continue reading blog postArtificial intelligence (AI) in education is not new. The pioneers of AI during the 1950s were cognitive scientists who were directly involved in education research (Doroudi, 2023). However, there...
Continue reading blog postLearning unfolds as a dialogue between a student and a more knowledgeable other – in higher education, a lecturer – a dialogue marked by mutual respect, responsibility and trust as the key...
Continue reading blog postIntroduction This blog post is a reflection on the UNESCO report (Miao & Holmes, 2023), which underscores the importance of centring educators in the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution in...
Continue reading blog postDuring the Covid-19 pandemic emerging evidence showed the toll that the pandemic was having on the mental health of children (Anna Freud, 2020). We developed a module for our primary student...
Continue reading blog postMuch hype around artificial intelligence in education (AIE) is crystallised in the language. This was demonstrated emphatically in the ‘discombobulated’ tones of a working paper from Hamilton,...
Continue reading blog postImagine a world where a machine could offer students personalised feedback, generate new content tailored to their needs, or even predict their learning outcomes. With the rapid emergence of...
Continue reading blog postMost readers will now most probably have heard of ChatGPT. For some this word may fill us with hope and anticipation. Others may tremble. Before we describe the potential applications of ChatGPT...
Continue reading blog postArtificial intelligence (AI) prompts an existential crisis for universities (Bearman et al., 2022), stoking concerns that we may lose the human touch or that teachers and institutions may be...
Continue reading blog postThe Russell Group (2023) recently published five guiding principles in advocating artificial intelligence (AI) usage in higher education. The document uses the ‘ethical use of generative AI’...
Continue reading blog postThe field of early childhood education (ECE) has seen a rise in the use of programmable robotics to introduce coding, computational thinking (CT), and sequencing ability to young learners. While...
Continue reading blog postIn education, it is common for people to talk about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in assessment as something in the future, but it’s not – it’s here, and it’s been working away...
Continue reading blog postAcademics are increasingly warned that cheating assisted by artificial intelligence (AI) could pose new challenges to the world of learning and teaching (Cotton et al., 2023). To understand the...
Continue reading blog postIn the recently published British Journal of Educational Technology article, ‘Constructionism and AI: A history and possible futures’, Niall Winters and I examine the 50-year history of...
Continue reading blog postPicture your favourite childhood toy. What was it? What did you learn from it? How did you know it was for you? These questions, and others like it, underpin the questions raised by posthumanist...
Continue reading blog postDue to the Covid-19 pandemic, online learning in higher education is gaining in popularity more than ever. Since online learning is so prevalent, it is important that online courses offer learning...
Continue reading blog postMicrogenetic analysis is a Vygotskyan educational research method that supports uncovering student sense-making activity during collaborative learning. Investigating learning using microgenetic...
Continue reading blog postNow that artificial intelligence (AI) is very much in the public eye, the issue of its use in education has attracted much attention, both good and bad. Within the context of education, one...
Continue reading blog postRecognising that learning is a social activity, intelligent tutoring systems enable learners to engage in (virtual) face-to-face social interactions with autonomous animated software characters,...
Continue reading blog postThe question, ‘What is an appropriate role for Artificial Intelligence(AI)?’, is the subject of much discussion and interest. There is little doubt about the great potential and the disruptive...
Continue reading blog postFifty years after Stanley Kubrick introduced cinemagoers to HAL9000, the prospect of a robot-infused world still feels more science fiction than social fact. Yet robots are steadily beginning to...
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