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Generative artificial intelligence has altered the assessment landscape in higher education. Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini can now generate essays, solve structured problems, summarize readings, and produce discussion posts that appear coherent and academically polished. AI detection tools are often unreliable, biased, and/or insufficient as integrity
Across recent research and practitioner guidance, a consistent theme emerges: AI is most productive when it automates the routine so you can focus on the human. In practical terms, AI can meaningfully reduce the time you spend on repetitive, well-defined tasks. What it cannot, and should not, replace is the
The use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (or GenAI) is present in all teaching modalities and levels. Tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, CoPilot, and Grammarly are embedded into our everyday software and everyday lives. The same can be said for our students, who have been making decisions about when, how, and why
2025 brought even more urgency to finding an answer to the question, “What is the role of educators when it comes to AI?” In early 2025, students recognized AI was generating uncertainty around future job prospects and noted a lack of formal AI integration into their studies.1 (Risepoint, 2025). As
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