Chief Commissioner Peter Coaldrake states the power of new tools requires a deep think on approaches to teaching and learning and assessment practices

However the Tertiary Education Quality Standards Agency is interested in more than academic integrity. In a letter to HE providers yesterday Professor Coaldrake also pointed to, the potential for AI in preparing grant applications and writing research papers.

And he pointed to potential problems in counter measures – citing privacy and IP issues in uploading student assessment tasks to third-party platforms to detect AI.

Professor Coaldrake added that last March he had highlighted, “the impending release of powerful AI tools” and urged institutions, “to ensure that their academic integrity policies and communication with students were responding to contemporary circumstances.”

“Some,” he adds, “have responded actively to the challenges and are now well placed to respond to generative AI.”  He advises that TEQSA is keen to understand the different approaches being taken.