Yesterday was the annual UCL Education Conference with a theme of Designing Futures-focused Education. The event was jampacked with a pre-event online session, multiple asynchronous sessions and a day of in-person keynotes and parallel sessions. The entire Digital Assessment TeamContinue reading… UCL Education Conference: Designing Futures-focused Education
Category: Academic integrity
Generative AI: Friend or Foe?
In this post I share two videos on generative AI including (of course) reference to ChatPT. These are designed for a general audience at UCL and will hopefully be of relevance to academic and professional service colleagues as well asContinue reading… Generative AI: Friend or Foe?
AI text generators (not chatGPT) on essays, citations and plagiarism
I like to think of myself as generally optimistic. Like everyone, I make jokes about the machines taking over but, by and large, I feel excited by the potentials of AI (whilst keeping one hand behind my back tightly grippingContinue reading… AI text generators (not chatGPT) on essays, citations and plagiarism
Designing Assessment for Academic Integrity (and AI)
Early in 2023, Leo Havemann and I ran workshops on Designing Assessments for Academic Integrity (including AI) – one in February and an update in March (material and links below). The original idea (way back in December 2022 whenContinue reading… Designing Assessment for Academic Integrity (and AI)
AI and implications for HE assessment – my tuppence worth*
When I can, Friday afternoons are a good time to fiddle with things. EVERYONE it seems has been fiddling with the OpenAI ChatGPT this week and much larking about and amusement has been had with the churning out of mostlyContinue reading… AI and implications for HE assessment – my tuppence worth*
Workshops on Academic Integrity
The Digital Assessment Team have been working with the Student Changemakers team (Sandra Lusk and Abbie King), Arena (Jenny Griffiths and Simon Walker) and the Academic Communication Centre (Ariane Smart) to design a series of workshops that explore how weContinue reading… Workshops on Academic Integrity
An institutional environment that increases academic integrity
Reposted from the Digital Education Team blog. Over the last two years UCL has made major strides in its use, support and understanding of digital assessment at scale. Prior to the pandemic there had been interest in providing a centrally-managedContinue reading… An institutional environment that increases academic integrity
Big Tech Headlights
Listen (7 mins) or read (5 mins) Whether it’s non-existent problems, unscalable solutions or a lack of imagination, we need to be careful about what educational technology appears to promise. I have written before about how easy it is toContinue reading… Big Tech Headlights