Rapid developments in artificial intelligence mean the key skills that need to be taught by the education system are curiosity, adaptability, and critical and analytical thinking, according to two University of Technology Sydney students who gave evidence to a parliamentary committee on ...
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Women make up approximately 30 per cent of the tech workforce in Australia, and the federal government could do more to support gender equality in the industry, according to advocate groups. In a traditionally male-dominated industry, advocate organisations like social ...
More »AI best practice, the Accord, and HED
Since last November, the two focuses of higher education practitioners, leaders and commentators, have been the sector review of the interim report of the Australian Universities Accord, and the potential effects of artificial intelligence (AI). Both have also been a ...
More »Eight grand challenges for artificial intelligence and education
Educators and artificial intelligence specialists face eight grand challenges in dealing with the impact of AI on education, according to University of Sydney computer science professor Judy Kay, who heads the Human Centred Technology Research Cluster in the engineering and ...
More »The AI revolution in higher education: opinion
Generative artificial intelligence is a growing branch of AI which helps with generating new and original content. ChatGPT, the word-of-mouth generative AI these days, is a language model created by Open AI that uses algorithms to produce human-like answers to ...
More »The digital disruption facing higher education: opinion
The new reality is upon us – whether we like it or not. AI cheat ware and HE streaming are new challenges that we need to face head-on. There is no need for panic – just a sensible approach to ...
More »The next step: the assignment marking bot?
Amazing new AI bots are now able to convincingly write cogent academic essays and assist in penning other student assignment tasks. The release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT has caused consternation in a higher education environment already struggling to sustain its own ...
More »Survey reveals students’ key expectations on technology in their university experience
TechnologyOne recently published its latest annual Student Survey Report, which asked over 17 thousand students across Australia and New Zealand what they expect from their education experience to help uncover the developing trends in student behaviours and motivations in relation ...
More »EduTECH 2019: How analytics and AI are closing the ‘feedback loop’
Analytics and AI are combining to provide fantastic insights into “student learning and progress”. While today's learning platforms can provide basic feedback on, say, how much of text a student has read or whether they have completed a section of ...
More »Who decides who dies in driverless car accidents?
At least 11 auto manufacturers, including Toyota, Audi and Tesla, are putting driverless car plans in motion. With soon-to-be robot drivers comes the need to program ethics in them. Think, a situation like the trolley dilemma, where a driver must choose ...
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