#generative ai Articles


Our Guidelines for Using Generative AI for Graded Writing

Like all educators these last few years, we are figuring out how to handle students offloading their learning to generative AI and our corresponding challenges in having to read the AI's writing instead of our students. I wrote this as a statement for my students as guidelines for writing their …

You Don't Expect Me to Read 100 Papers, Do You?

I was the (co-)grader today for presentations about MSc students' literature studies. A student presenter shared that they had read through 100 papers to find the results for their literature study. Following the presentation, a student in the audience asked something like: "One hundred papers sounds like a lot …

Assessing a Thesis in the Time of Generative AI

At today's department meeting I asked about the progress of the faculty's policy/advice on generative AI use in writing MSc theses. It was announced to us before the summer that it was forthcoming. I was told it was unlikely to arrive and that, if it did, it wouldn't be …