Every month, our AI blog provides a selection of literature and resources on artificial intelligence in teaching and learning. Here’s the roundup for April 2025:
Turner P. Mapping a multidimensional framework for GenAI in education. EDUCAUSE Review [Internet]. 2025 Apr 2. Available from: https://er.educause.edu/articles/2025/4/mapping-a-multidimensional-framework-for-genai-in-education
Excerpt: “Prompting careful dialogue through incisive questions can help chart a course through the ongoing storm of artificial intelligence.”
McMurtrie B. Should college graduates be AI literate? Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2025 Apr 3. Available from: https://www-chronicle-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/article/should-college-graduates-be-ai-literate
Excerpt: “More institutions are saying yes. Persuading professors is only the first barrier they face.”
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Padilla T. Preserving AI. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Apr 4. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/04/04/ai-preservation-unaddressed-challenge-opinion
Excerpt: “As artificial intelligence rapidly evolves, how can we effectively preserve it? As a librarian, technologist and community builder who has worked at places like the Internet Archive, the Library of Congress and university research libraries, I see AI preservation as a core challenge that remains to a large extent unaddressed. How can we best understand society moving forward without ongoing access to some version of the tools that fundamentally affect how knowledge in our time is produced?”
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Basgen B. AI as a thought partner in higher education. EDUCAUSE Review [Internet]. 2025 Apr 9. Available from: https://er.educause.edu/articles/2025/4/ai-as-a-thought-partner-in-higher-education
Excerpt: “When used thoughtfully and transparently, generative artificial intelligence can augment creativity and challenge assumptions, making it an excellent tool for exploring and developing ideas.”
McMurtie B. Teaching: Will AI change our uniquely human traits? The Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2025 Apr 10. Available from: https://www-chronicle-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/newsletter/teaching/2025-04-10
Excerpt: “This week, I: Share the results of a survey on how human traits might change by 2035; Distill the results from a new survey on how students are using AI tools.”
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Swaak T. Students found out AI will help read their names at commencement. Protest ensued. The Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2025 Apr 10. Available from: https://www-chronicle-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/article/students-found-out-ai-will-help-read-their-names-at-commencement-protest-ensued
Excerpt: “This year, the university, which serves more than 19,000 students, plans to adopt a third-party service that uses AI technology to clone the voices of compensated “professional voice artists” and create synthetic recordings of students’ names. Students can then review the recordings before the ceremony and send them back for alterations if they’re wrong.”
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National Academy of Medicine. Generative artificial intelligence in health and medicine: opportunities and responsibilities for transformative innovation. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press; 2025. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17226/28907
Excerpt: “The integration of large language models (LLMs) and generative artificial intelligence (AI) in health care holds the potential to transform the practice of medicine, the work and experiences of health care providers, and the health and well-being of patients. Generative AI can support clinical decision making and streamline workflows, promote patients and their support networks’ engagement in care processes, and support clinical research.”
Kaufman R. American Psychological Association’s stepped approach to managing responsible AI: an interview with Aaron Wood on employee policies, rights reservation, and research integrity. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. 2025 Apr 14. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/14/american-psychological-associations-stepped-approach-to-managing-responsible-ai-an-interview-with-aaron-wood-on-employee-policies-rights-reservation-and-research-integrity
Excerpt: “During the session, I had the opportunity to interview Aaron Wood, Head of Product and Content Management for APA [American Psychological Association], about APA’s multi-faceted approach to Artificial Intelligence and the change management it engenders. I was especially excited about this interview, given the APA’s comprehensive approach to AI. The following is adapted from the talk.”
Clewley C & Clewley L. Building connections with AI industry is vital to keeping degrees relevant. Times Higher Education [Internet]. 2025 Apr 14. Available from: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/building-connections-ai-industry-vital-keeping-degrees-relevant
Excerpt: “In rapid innovation lies tension. Nowhere is this tension more evident than in the swift rise of generative AI and its profound impact on higher education. Universities now face a stark reality: students will embrace these technologies regardless of institutional policy.”
Decker S. Guest post — The open access – AI conundrum: does free to read mean free to train? In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. 2025 Apr 14. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/15/guest-post-the-open-access-ai-conundrum-does-free-to-read-mean-free-to-train
Excerpt: “The readers envisaged by proponents of OA were obviously human (academics as well as the wider public). While text mining had been considered as one potential application, they could not foresee the development of large language models (LLMs) which would begin to rapaciously ingest large amounts of text. OA literature has become particularly attractive for AI training precisely because it lacks the legal and technical barriers that might protect traditionally published content.”
Westling C & Mishra MK. Artificial intelligence: lessons learned from a graduate-level final exam. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Apr 15. Available from: https://er.educause.edu/articles/2025/4/artificial-intelligence-lessons-learned-from-a-graduate-level-final-exam
Excerpt: “The need for deep student engagement became clear at Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine when a potential academic-integrity issue revealed gaps in its initial approach to artificial intelligence use in the classroom, leading to significant revisions to ensure equitable learning and assessment.”
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Schroeder R. The disruptive future of society as AI dominates the workplace. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Apr 16. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/online-trending-now/2025/04/16/disruptive-future-society-ai-dominates-workplace
Excerpt: “Generative artificial intelligence gained worldwide attention with the initial release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and it has continued to expand at awesome speed and capability ever since.”
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Chawla DS. AI bots are overwhelming some journals. Chemical & Engineering News [Internet]. 2025 Apr 16. Available from: https://cen.acs.org/policy/publishing/AI-bots-overwhelming-journals/103/web/2025/04
Excerpt: “Traffic from bots run by artificial intelligence companies is disrupting scientific journal websites. Some publications report that their websites are now visited more by bots than by genuine users.
Scalon PM. Ghosts are everywhere. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Apr 18. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/04/18/how-ai-challenges-notions-authorship-opinion
Excerpt: “Still, we have to face the question of ghostwriting’s ethicality in other instances. When is it allowable? I think for practical, workaday writing chores, AI technology has already won out.”
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Flaherty C. The digital divide: student generative AI access. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Apr 21. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2025/04/21/half-colleges-dont-grant-students-access
Excerpt: “Half of chief technology officers say their institution doesn’t grant students access to generative AI tools. How does your college compare?”
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Wood H. Publishers’ Licensing Services and Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society create ‘pioneering’ AI licence. The Book Seller [Internet]. 2025 Apr 23. Available from: https://www.thebookseller.com/news/publishers-licensing-services-and-authors-licensing-and-collecting-society-create-pioneering-ai-licence
Excerpt: “The two collective management organisations representing publishers and authors have agreed to the development by the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) of a new collective licence for generative AI.”
Ross J. AI research summaries ‘exaggerate findings,’ study warns. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Apr 24. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2025/04/24/ai-research-summaries-exaggerate-findings
Excerpt: “Bots’ tendency to display ‘unwarranted confidence’ and fixate on ‘pink elephants’ is particularly risky in medical research, according to a new paper.”
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Ross J. AI summary ‘trashed author’s work’ and took weeks to be corrected. Times Higher Education [Internet]. 2025 Apr 24. Available from: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ai-summary-trashed-authors-work-and-took-weeks-be-corrected
Excerpt: “Study findings misrepresented in experimental Q&A published with paper, amid concerns efforts to save researchers time are fuelling mistakes.”
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Reece G. We already have an ethics framework for AI. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Apr 25. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/04/25/we-already-have-ethics-framework-ai-opinion
Excerpt: “An accepted framework guiding human subjects research can help us make ethical judgments about different AI uses...”
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Kaufman R. Innovation, governance, and public trust: The US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issues guidance on AI. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. 2025 Apr 28. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/28/innovation-governance-and-public-trust-the-us-office-of-management-and-budget-omb-issues-guidance-on-ai
Excerpt: “We are expecting the AI Action Plan to be issued over the summer. This will be the ‘official’ policy document. We may, however, glean some of the administration’s views by looking at a recently issued memo from Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Voight.”
Zhou H & Hetzscholdt P. AI strategy, governance, and monetization in scholarly publishing: lessons from industry front-runners. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. 2025 Apr 29. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/29/ai-strategy-governance-and-monetization-in-scholarly-publishing-lessons-from-industry-front-runners
Excerpt: The authors describe how the takeaways from a generative AI summit can be applied to publishers.
Chaudhuri A & Trainor J. 3 laws for curriculum design in an AI age. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Apr 30. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/04/30/three-laws-curriculum-design-ai-age-opinion
Excerpt: "The need for faculty to clarify the role of AI in the curriculum is pressing. To address this...we have developed what we are calling 'Three Laws of Curriculum in the Age of AI,'...written to ensure that humans remained in control of technology. Our three laws are not laws, per se; they are a framework for thinking about how to address AI technology in the curriculum at all levels, from the individual classroom to degree-level road maps, from general education through graduate courses."
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Schroeder R. Urgent need for AI literacy. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Apr 30. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/online-trending-now/2025/04/30/urgent-need-ai-literacy
Excerpt: "As we approach May, alarm bells are ringing for all colleges and universities to ensure that AI literacy programs have been completed by learners who plan to enter the job market this year and in the future."
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