INQAAHE Forum 2024
Transforming Society: Social Reponsibility trough Quality Assurance of Tertiary Education
June 11, 2024
Design-thinking workshop
Sub-theme 3: Designing Curricula for Societal Impact
Academic integrity-artificial intelligence nexus
Universities face regulatory, ethical and legal considerations in treating academic integrity cases. These are complicated by the development of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) software. The nexus of the two challenge the relevance and effectiveness of curricula in meeting disciplinary/professional outlooks and social impact. Institutional agility, particularly through policy and procedure development and implementation, is critical because the fast-evolving technology and the learning curve that occurs to determine the negative and positive impacts of GAI on the assurance of the outcomes derived from learning and research processes. This presentation takes a risk-based look at issues influencing institutional agility in maintaining quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) from the perspective of implied warranty of fitness, i.e., that student performance is the student’s own, and the research output of staff and students is the result of their own efforts.
The aims of this design-thinking workshop are the following:
- Provide the basis for considering and treating the connection between academic integrity-artificial intelligence as a nexus with its special parameters.
- Give feedback on the appropriateness of the issues identified by the presenters affecting the nexus by adding, eliminating or modifying the initial areas given.
- Generate a discussion from a risk-based perspective to the issues impacting effective institutional responses to this nexus to inform the guideline documents to higher education institutions (HEIs) regarding institutional approaches to meeting regulatory requirements on academic integrity and/or acceptable/unacceptable application of GAI software within an HEI.
- Identify practices HEIs can use to meet regulatory requirements and/or establish good practices on how to manage the academic integrity-artificial integrity nexus.
The format used is based on getting participants to contribute to solving the issues surrounding how HEIs manage the challenges associated with the academic integrity-artificial intelligence nexus in a way that does not inadvertently disallow the teaching of GAI within disciplines adopting GAI as part of their professional skill sets while still allowing them to warrant the veracity of their academic credentials and outputs.
Facilitated by:
Associate Professor Fernando Padró, PhD
Dr. Padró is Associate Professor (Pathways) and Chair of the Academic Board at the University of Southern Queensland. His primary research area is quality assurance in higher education and quality in learning and teaching, presently serving as series editor of Handbook on University Development and Administration for Springer. He has experience as an external examiner for different accrediting bodies in the USA and the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. He also is a Senior Member of the American Society for Quality and served as Chair of the Education Committee and as Chair of the E.L. Grant Medal Selection Panel.
Professor Karen Trimmer
Professor Karen Trimmer focus is leadership for community capacity building, through research that impacts on education, social justice, policy and governance through professional development and empowerment of leaders in education organisations and communities. In previous positions she conducted reviews evaluating outcomes of government initiatives, including small- and large-scale studies in education, resulting in research reports utilised for policy development in state and national departments. At the University of Southern Queensland, she held leadership roles including Postgraduate Program Coordinator–Education, Assistant Dean Staffing, A/Head of School and A/Head of College for Indigenous Studies, Education and Research. She currently works within the School of Education to develop leadership in practice, with postgraduate students, and in assessment of quality in higher education acting as Chair and panel member of Quality Assurance Review Panels for Papua New Guinea Department of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology and the Samoan Qualifications Authority.
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