In Expert Opinion

Academic Integrity expert Cath Ellis (UNSW) on the brand new, GPT IV. “It’s a very compelling proposition on two extremes. On the one hand it is offering to assist us in terms of being teachers and/or students as learners. But at the other extreme it is presenting a very real and present threat to how we have done things for a very long time, not just in measuring learning outcomes, through our assessment, but also in terms of what we think our students need to know, to be able to do to be safe and productive practitioners and professionals.”

Strong start for a wide-ranging interview, HERE.

 and in Features this morning

Merlin Crossley (UNSW) on the pain and plight of early career academics and what can and can’t be done, HERE.

plus Open ed experts are talking about how to embrace AI for student and staff productivity. Michael Sankey reports the results from the Australasian Council on Open, Distance and eLearning, HERE

with Jaymee Beveridge and Kylie Austin (Uni Wollongong) on how their university reimagined graduations by connecting them to Indigenous history. Commissioning Editor Sally Kift’s new selection for her series Needed now in learning and teaching, HERE