Every month, our AI blog provides a selection of literature and resources on artificial intelligence in teaching and learning. Here’s the roundup for May 2025:
Warner J. An AI thought experiment. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 May 1. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/just-visiting/2025/05/01/adjusting-generative-ai-education-means-getting-roots
Excerpt: “To help folks think through what we should be considering regarding the impact on education of generative AI tools like large language models, I want to try a thought experiment.”
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McMurtrie B. Is your online student a bot? Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2025 May 1. Available from: https://www-chronicle-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/article/is-your-online-student-a-bot
Excerpt: “As AI gets better, online education becomes more vulnerable to fraud. Just ask instructors in California.”
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Mintz S. Teaching writing in the age of AI. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 May 2. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/higher-ed-gamma/2025/05/02/challenges-and-approaches-teaching-writing-age-ai
Excerpt: “If writing is to remain a meaningful intellectual endeavor, I—and you—must help our students understand its deeper purpose—not as a task to complete, but as a tool for thinking, analysis and real-world influence.”
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Watkins M. Your students need an AI-aware professor. Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2025 May 5. Available from: https://www-chronicle-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/article/your-students-need-an-ai-aware-professor
Excerpt: “Here’s a sustainable plan to bring you up to speed on a technology that academe can’t afford to ignore.”
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Galef D. Q&A with an AI on its creative process. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 May 6. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/05/06/qa-ai-its-creative-process-opinionhumor
Excerpt: The author prompts an AI tool on how it writes.
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Kim J. 3 questions on AI and innovation for Tawnya Means. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 May 8. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/learning-innovation/2025/05/08/three-questions-ai-and-innovation-tawnya-means
Excerpt: “I asked if Tawnya would be willing to answer my questions about her work and her thinking about AI and higher education, and she graciously agreed.”
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McMurtrie B. Teaching: Can AI improve creative writing? A small study investigates. Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2025 May 8. Available from: https://www-chronicle-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/newsletter/teaching/2025-05-08
Excerpt: “This week, I: Describe one AI study and what it says about the creative process; Ask how you know whether your students are learning if they use AI.”
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Mowreader A. Report: Instructors want more guidance on AI usage. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 May 8. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/academic-life/2025/05/08/professors-using-ai-need-more-administrative-support
Excerpt: “A recent report from Ithaka S+R finds professors are increasingly engaging with generative AI but want more support navigating its application and AI policy in the classroom.”
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Hansen SL. Guest post — Fostering AI adoption and literacy within your organization. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. 2025 May 14. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/05/14/guest-post-fostering-ai-adoption-and-literacy-within-your-organization
Excerpt: “For the last two years, AI has dominated our industry: conference agendas, whitepapers, webinars, and even these pages. It feels like AI is everywhere. And yet, organizational adoption of AI is still far from universal, with some companies still outright banning the use of AI tools.”
Schroeder R. Becoming AI literate this summer. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 May 14. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/online-trending-now/2025/05/14/becoming-ai-literate-summer
Excerpt: “Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a cornerstone of contemporary practice in higher education. This summer is an ideal time to become AI literate for the fall.”
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Mowreader A. Research: ChatGPT can pass an engineering class. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 May 19. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/academic-life/2025/05/19/chat-bot-passes-college-engineering-class-minimal
Excerpt: “The chat bot earned a B, slightly below the class average. It excelled in practice problems and computing exercises but was unable to justify its work or simplify systems.”
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Turcio AL. Can AI bring us closer to prospective students? Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2025 May 19. Available from: https://www-chronicle-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/article/can-ai-bring-us-closer-to-prospective-students
Excerpt: “Used with intention, this tech will free up your time to do the human parts of enrollment work that matter most.”
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Ghildiyal A. Guest post — Beyond efficiency: reclaiming creativity and wellbeing in the age of AI and scholarly publishing. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. 2025 May 20. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/05/20/guest-post-beyond-efficiency-reclaiming-creativity-and-wellbeing-in-the-age-of-ai-and-scholarly-publishing
Excerpt: “The scholarly publishing industry stands at a defining crossroads. Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming knowledge work, promising increased efficiency, scalability, and automation. Yet in our rush to explore its technical capabilities, we risk overlooking the human dimension — specifically, how AI is impacting the mental health, creative fulfillment, and cognitive engagement of the very people who create, review, and disseminate scholarly content.”
Flaherty C. AI and threats to academic integrity: what to do. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 May 20. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/academics/2025/05/20/experts-weigh-everyone-cheating-college
Excerpt: “Three in four chief technology officers say that artificial intelligence has proven to be a moderate or significant risk to academic integrity at their institution. Experts have ideas as to what can help.”
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Hsien ATC. Deep dive into three AI academic search tools. Katina Magazine [Internet]. 2025 May 20. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1146/katina-052025-2
Excerpt: “AI add-ons incorporating retrieval-augmented generation are everywhere in academic search. But how—and how well—do they work? Our reviewer put Primo Research Assistant, Web of Science Research Assistant, and Scopus AI to the test.”
Khushalani B. Empowering student success through AI-driven collaboration. EDUCAUSE Review [Internet]. 2025 May 22. Available from: https://er.educause.edu/articles/2025/5/empowering-student-success-through-ai-driven-collaboration
Excerpt: “Student success is a shared institutional commitment. Increasingly diverse student populations, mounting mental health concerns, and the exponential growth of digital information call for a reimagined approach to academic support—one that is proactive, personalized, and collaborative.”
McMurtrie B. The reading struggle meets AI. Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2025 May 22. Available from: https://www-chronicle-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/article/the-reading-struggle-meets-ai
Excerpt: “The crisis has worsened, many professors say. Is it time to think differently?”
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Burzlaff J. What AI can’t read: ambiguities and silences. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 May 23. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/05/23/what-ai-cant-read-ambiguities-and-silences-opinion
Excerpt: “By using AI for a task for which it is particularly ill-equipped—analyzing the testimony of Holocaust survivors—students deepen their own thinking.”
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Lim KYT, Hilmy AH, Wei, BKZ. AI operators or creators? Two visions of agency and learning. UNESCO. 2025 May 26. Available from: https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/ai-operators-or-creators-two-visions-agency-and-learning
Excerpt: “When seeking to understand how the notion of agency might evolve as learners interact with AI, scenarios play a useful part.”
O’Neill J. Dispensed with a matronly air: trust and AI. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. 2025 May 28. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/05/28/dispensed-with-a-matronly-air-trust-and-ai
Excerpt: “In recent weeks, BBC Maestro released a ‘Making Of’ blog post about their own disruptive AI project, one integrating AI, vocal, and visual technologies to recreate the presence of Agatha Christie. With the involvement of a team of more than 100 individuals and with the consent of the Christie family, the educational streaming platform announced the launch of a writing course taught by the famed author herself.”
Every month, our AI blog provides a selection of literature and resources on artificial intelligence in teaching and learning. Here’s the roundup for June 2025:
New Resource: National Academy of Medicine. 2025. An Artificial Intelligence Code of Conduct for Health and Medicine: Essential Guidance for Aligned Action. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/29087
Excerpt: “This NAM Special Publication, An Artificial Intelligence Code of Conduct for Health and Medicine: Essential Guidance for Aligned Action, addresses this imperative. By harmonizing existing AI principles, identifying gaps, and aligning them with the core commitments of the NAM’s Learning Health System (LHS), it provides a comprehensive, adaptable set of guidelines for health care organizations and stakeholders. These principles are intended as guideposts for the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of AI systems, ensuring they uphold the highest standards of integrity, safety, and effectiveness.”
Reuscher J. Evaluating Web of Science’s AI-powered research assistant. 2025 Jun 4. In: Choice. LibTech Insights [Internet]. Middletown, CT: Choice. Available from: https://www.choice360.org/libtech-insight/evaluating-web-of-sciences-ai-powered-research-assistant/
Excerpt: “Web of Science (WoS) has released a Research Assistant (RA) intended for research and scholarship at all levels, from undergraduate to faculty and professional study. Because the WoS Core Collection comprises 120 years of indexed research, RA is a new way to visualize and interact with the scholarly record, leaving the detritus of the web outside of its search parameters.”
McMurtrie B. Teaching: What professors want to know about AI and teaching. Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2025 Jun 5. Available from: https://www-chronicle-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/newsletter/teaching/2025-06-05
Excerpt: “This week, I: Share insights from a conference on teaching with AI; Describe my latest story on the ongoing reading challenge.
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Barnard B. A call for college application innovation. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Jun 9. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/06/09/call-college-application-innovation-opinion
Excerpt: “AI opens up new avenues to allow applicants to present themselves creatively...”
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Meletiadou E. Empowering mature students through inclusive AI literacy: advancing digital equity and social justice in higher education. HEPI [Internet]. 2025 Jun 9. Available from: https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/06/09/empowering-mature-students-through-inclusive-ai-literacy-advancing-digital-equity-and-social-justice-in-higher-education
Excerpt: “As higher education embraces artificial intelligence (AI) to drive digital transformation, there is a growing risk that older, non-traditional, or mature students will be left behind. This blog post draws on insights from the QAA-funded ‘Using AI to promote education for sustainable development and widen access to digital skills' project I have been leading alongside findings from the EU COST Action DigiNet (WG5), where I co-lead research into media portrayals and digital inequalities impacting mature learning workers.”
Frazier K. Please plagiarize my work. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Jun 10. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/06/10/i-want-ai-plagiarize-my-work-opinion
Excerpt: “In an AI era, a preoccupation with issues of credit and citation limits the reach of our research...”
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Warner J. Hasty lurches toward an uncertain AI future. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Jun 12. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/just-visiting/2025/06/12/higher-ed-should-be-very-cautious-about-ai-partnerships
Excerpt: “There have been several points during this era of AI availability in education where I’ve been genuinely shocked that something that seems to me to be clearly out of bounds or incredibly rash is viewed by others as quite workable, or even desirable.”
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Carpenter TA. We need AI standards for scholarly publishing: A NISO workshop report. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. 2025 Jun 12. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/12/we-need-ai-standards-for-scholarly-publishing-a-niso-workshop-report
Excerpt: “Notably last month, NISO ( National Information Standards Organization — full disclosure, my employer) hosted a series of workshops for scholarly publishing leadership to identify and prioritize efforts to address some of the challenges around AI and interoperability. These collective actions can help reduce the number of issues and we can all benefit from the opportunities AI provides.”
Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University. How language bias persists in scientific publishing despite AI tools. [Internet]. 2025 Jun 16. Available from: https://hai.stanford.edu/news/how-language-bias-persists-in-scientific-publishing-despite-ai-tools
Excerpt: “For now, English remains the lingua franca of indexed science, dominating most peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. This puts non-native speakers at a significant disadvantage. While large language models can assist authors to help overcome some language barriers, a new study by two researchers with the Stanford Graduate School of Education suggests that bias against non-native speakers persists even when these tools are used.”
Alonso J. The handwriting revolution. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Jun 17. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/curriculum/2025/06/17/amid-ai-plagiarism-more-professors-turn-handwritten-work
Excerpt: “Five semesters after ChatGPT changed education forever, some professors are taking their classes back to the pre-internet era.”
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Zheng H. Leveraging GenAI to transform a traditional instructional video into engaging short video lectures. EDUCAUSE Review [Internet]. 2025 Jun 17. Available from: https://er.educause.edu/articles/2025/6/leveraging-genai-to-transform-a-traditional-instructional-video-into-engaging-short-video-lectures
Excerpt: “By leveraging generative artificial intelligence to convert lengthy instructional videos into micro-lectures, educators can enhance efficiency while delivering more engaging and personalized learning experiences.”
Mellors J. The em dash is not the problem. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Jun 20. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/06/20/whats-em-dashai-anxieties-opinion
Excerpt: “What might seem like a minor point of style has, in some cases, become a litmus test for authenticity...Because here is the thing: There is no definitive rule about how em dashes should be spaced. Merriam-Webster, for instance, notes that many newspapers and magazines insert a space before and after the em dash, while most books and academic journals don’t. Yet, a certain kind of scholar will see a tightly spaced dash and declare: ‘AI.’”
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Hinchcliffe LJ. Are AI bots knocking digital collections offline? An interview with Michael Weinberg. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. 2025 Jun 23. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/23/are-ai-bots-knocking-digital-collections-offline
Excerpt: “Last week, the GLAM-E Lab published the results of an investigation into reports that servers and collections were straining – and sometimes breaking – under the load of swarming bots... Today, I interview Michael Weinberg, Executive Director, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, NYU Law, and Co-Director of the GLAM-E Lab, about the study and what this phenomenon portends for information access and sustainable infrastructures.”
Georgieva M & Stuart J. Ethics is the edge: the future of AI in higher education. EDUCAUSE Review [Internet]. 2025 Jun 24. Available from: https://er.educause.edu/articles/2025/6/ethics-is-the-edge-the-future-of-ai-in-higher-education
Excerpt: “A new framework outlines eight ethical principles to guide higher education's implementation of artificial intelligence.”
Blake J. Howard and Google aim to advance AI technology for Black users. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Jun 25. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/06/25/howard-and-google-aim-improve-ai-tech-black-users
Excerpt: “Researchers at Howard University and Google are working to improve Black individuals’ experience when using artificial intelligence and automatic speech-recognition technologies, like Siri, Alexa or Google Assistant.”
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Schroeder R. Walking, talking, engaging AI in higher ed. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Jun 25. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/online-trending-now/2025/06/25/walking-talking-engaging-ai-higher-ed
Excerpt: “A front-row seat to the maturing of AI in higher education.”
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Rowsell J. Universities ‘at risk of overassessing’ in response to AI. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Jun 27. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/2025/06/27/universities-risk-overassessing-response-ai
Excerpt: “Universities risk overassessing students as they race to future-proof themselves against artificial intelligence, academics have warned.”
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Kaufman R, Anderson R, Carpenter TA. Ask the Chefs — New court decisions issued in cases addressing AI training and copyright. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. 2025 Jun 30. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/30/ask-the-chefs-new-court-decisions-issued-in-cases-addressing-ai-training-and-copyright/
Excerpt: “Last week saw the release of two court decisions in cases addressing the use of copyrighted material for training of artificial intelligence (AI) platforms, Bartz et al., v. Anthropic, and Kadrey et al., v. Meta. We asked the Chefs for their thoughts on these decisions and the potential impacts on publishers and authors.”
Trumbore A. Slaves to the machine. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Jun 30. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/06/30/profit-motives-skew-ed-tech-they-dont-have-opinion
Excerpt: “In 1966, a Stanford University professor promised to harness the power of the computer to provide “the personal services of a tutor as well informed and as responsive as Aristotle.” In 2023, Sal Khan proclaimed, “We’re at the cusp of using AI for probably the biggest positive transformation that education has ever seen. And the way we are going to do that is by giving every student on the planet an artificially intelligent but amazing personal tutor.” Same dream, different era, but with one key difference: Who is building the tools, and why?”
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