Restoring trust in graduate qualifications

What A.I. did to my college class

Cheating has become omnipresent. I don’t know a single person who hasn’t used A.I. to get through some assignment in college, yet the school was at first slow to realize how widespread this would become. As freshman year went on, some professors suggested that the “nuclear option” might be called for: allowing faculty to proctor in-person exams, a practice banned at the university for over a century to demonstrate “confidence in the honor” of students.

Theo Baker

Rampant AI cheating is ruining education alarmingly fast

Nearly 90 percent of college students had used ChatGPT to help with homework. Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate. We're talking about an entire generation of learning perhaps significantly undermined here.

James D. Walsh

How AI will destroy universities

The only pedagogically robust response to LLMs in universities is at least a partial return to traditional methods. Reliance on online coursework has to be reduced; a significant return to paper and pen is required. This is the only way we can guarantee that students are not cheating.

Paul Sagar

Chancellors give the warning: the customer is always right

Universities risk further reputational erosion if the public concludes that higher education exists primarily to collect fees and issue degrees while allowing AI-enabled academic dishonesty to proliferate unchecked.

Alan Manly OAM

Degrees mean nothing now. I’ve given up on graduates — give me grey hair and war wounds instead

Employers are losing faith in university qualifications as AI-driven cheating undermines the value of degrees. Businesses are increasingly favouring experienced candidates over fresh graduates whose skills and knowledge cannot be verified.

Gemma Tognini

Stop AI cheating by bringing back in-person exams, unis warned

Two of the nation's most respected former chancellors are urging universities to bring students back to campus for supervised exams and in-person assessments to counter an epidemic of students cheating using artificial intelligence.

Ros Thomas

Alan Finkel PhD on WA ABC Mornings

"70% of the final mark or thereabouts has to come from in-person supervised assessments. And the student has to pass that 70%." Alan Finkel PhD discusses the urgent need for assessment reform.

Interview starts at 4 minutes and 15 seconds.

Interview with Nadia Mitsopoulos

Did AI kill the contract cheater?

Contract cheating companies are resorting to increasingly desperate tactics such as sneaking into lectures, infiltrating group chats, and impersonating professors as generative AI takes over the cheating market from traditional essay mills.

Sally Rawsthorne

How Australia’s university students are using AI to cheat their way to a degree

Six senior academics in three states estimated 80 per cent of students are using ChatGPT or similar AI engines to cheat assignments, essays and exams, claiming university administrations are failing to crack down on the practice.

Ros Thomas

Over a dozen unis are using AI to catch AI — and getting it wrong

At least a dozen Australian universities are using AI detection software to catch AI cheating, and they are making mistakes. Students across the country say the false allegations are costing them money, time and stress.

Julia Bergin

How a liberal art college is fighting the AI cheating crisis

Assessments are to education what laws are to a virtuous life. For AI, or any technology, to be a net benefit, we need deep thinkers who understand how to use technology for the common good.

Paul Morrissey

Assessment reform for the age of artificial intelligence

A comprehensive discussion paper commissioned by TEQSA outlining directions for assessment reform in higher education in response to generative AI, emphasising the need for multiple, inclusive, and contextualised assessment approaches.

Jason M Lodge, Sarah Howard, Margaret Bearman et al.