Every month, our AI blog provides a selection of literature and resources on artificial intelligence in teaching and learning. Here’s the roundup for October 2025:
Excerpt: “As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly reshapes the scientific landscape, the International Science Council (ISC) is releasing a series of three technical primers to support informed engagement across global science systems. These primers explore the practical applications, environmental implications, and data governance challenges of AI in science - helping policy-makers, researchers, and institutions navigate complex and fast-evolving terrain.”
Excerpt: “Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is having a profound impact on higher education. In the 2025 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report: Teaching and Learning Edition, GenAI was included—either explicitly or implicitly—in all six of the key technologies and practices anticipated to have significant impact on the future of teaching and learning…”
Excerpt: “An artifact of the race to the top in artificial intelligence is that mistakes inevitably occur. One of those many mistakes apparently led to hallucinations in outputs.”
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Excerpt: “This week, I: Describe some of the research on AI’s effects on learning; point you to an essay asking whether AI is making college students lonelier.”
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Excerpt: “The large language models struggled to create unique narratives, even when researchers provided them with specific characteristics of the essay writer. In fact, providing those specific characteristics often made the essays sound even more robotic, as the AI would force keywords about the author's identity into the essay, the researchers found.”
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Excerpt: “AI web harvesting bots are emerging as a significant IT management problem for content-rich websites across numerous industries. This is a byproduct of both the exploding market demand, as well as the technical choices and tremendous resource consumption of AI harvesters compared to traditional web crawlers.”
Excerpt: “From the demographic cliff to the search cliff, the drop in international enrollment to the decline in the public perception of higher education, our industry is fraught with challenges. When we combine these challenges with the escalating expectations from students and families and the ‘experience economy,’ we’re setting ourselves up to fall dangerously behind.”
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Excerpt: “Far from heralding the collapse of higher education, artificial intelligence offers a transformative opportunity to scale meaningful, individualized learning experiences across diverse classrooms.”
Excerpt: “We have begun a transformation in higher education that will make us more responsive, efficient and effective at achieving our multiple missions. This will not be easy or without trauma, but it is necessary.”
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Excerpt: “A recent NACE survey found that fewer than one in three college students use AI tools in their job hunt, most often for writing cover letters, interview prep and tailoring résumés.”
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Excerpt: “Ask any clear-eyed college professor what’s happening, and they’ll admit the truth: Everyone is cheating with generative artificial intelligence — tools like ChatGPT — and no one knows what to do about it. In this new academic reality, assigning traditional take-home essays isn’t just outdated; it’s becoming educationally indefensible.”
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Excerpt: “A new collection of essays, AI and the Future of Universities (HEPI Report 193) edited by Dr Giles Carden and Josh Freeman, brings together leading voices from universities, industry and policy. The collection comes at a point when Artificial Intelligence (AI) is projected to have a profound and transformative impact on virtually every sector of society and the economy, driving changes that are both beneficial and challenging. The various pieces look at how AI is reshaping higher education – from strategy, teaching and assessment to research and professional services.”
Excerpt: “Through this alliance, we’re trying to align resources and expand access to institutionally supported AI tools. So when people are using the free tools, they’re not free, right? They’re paying for them with their privacy, with their intellectual property. We want to make sure that they have access, not only to the training they need to use these tools responsibly, but also to the high-quality tools that are more accurate and that have commercial data protection so that they can rest assured that their intellectual property isn’t being used to train the underlying large language models.”
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Excerpt: “This article proposes a four-stage framework—explore, build, connect, refine—for guiding students’ generative AI use in professional development.”
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Excerpt: “For decades, EAL [English as an additional language] researchers have faced systemic disadvantages in publishing. Now, AI writing tools such as Grammarly, Paperpal, Perplexity, Claude, or ChatGPT promise relief of this linguistic burden. Yet, they bring new risks into science. They promise seamless language polishing, yet also carry the potential to blur our voice, standardize our style, and insert new biases.”
Excerpt: “In the urgency to manage the classroom effects of AI, education leaders risk overlooking an even more profound development outside their walls: the dramatic reshaping of the labor market.”
Excerpt: “Just as there are quiet cars on trains, there can be quiet areas of the internet. Learning management systems and assessment platforms should be one such area.”
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Excerpt: “There are many discussions right now about the exciting possibilities that AI can offer, and chatbots can certainly be valuable tools that can support learning and streamline the process of gathering and evaluating information. However, as crucial as it is to discuss the substantial downsides of AI, such as its environmental costs, we also need to examine the long-standing factors that sometimes encourage students to use AI unethically in the first place.”
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Excerpt: “Artificial intelligence tools are becoming more common on college campuses, with many institutions encouraging students to engage with the technology to become more digitally literate and better prepared to take on the jobs of tomorrow. But some of these tools pose risks to young adults and teens who use them, generating text that encourages self-harm, disordered eating or substance abuse.”
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Excerpt: “Mandatory disclosure statements feel an awful lot like a confession or admission of guilt right now. And given the culture of suspicion and shame that dominates so much of the AI discourse in higher ed at the moment, I can’t blame students for being reluctant to disclose their usage.”
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Excerpt: “If we want students to learn to write, AI tools shouldn’t have much of a role. If we don’t think students need to learn to write anymore, I’m not sure what we’re doing here.”
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Every month, our AI blog provides a selection of literature and resources on artificial intelligence in teaching and learning. Here’s the roundup for October 2025:
New Resources: Primers from the International Science Council on AI and science.
Excerpt: “As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly reshapes the scientific landscape, the International Science Council (ISC) is releasing a series of three technical primers to support informed engagement across global science systems. These primers explore the practical applications, environmental implications, and data governance challenges of AI in science - helping policy-makers, researchers, and institutions navigate complex and fast-evolving terrain.”
Robert J. 2025 Horizon Action Plan: building skills and literacy for teaching with GenAI. EDUCAUSE [Internet]. 2025 Sep 29. Available from: https://library.educause.edu/resources/2025/9/2025-educause-horizon-action-plan-building-skills-and-literacy-for-teaching-with-genai
Excerpt: “Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is having a profound impact on higher education. In the 2025 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report: Teaching and Learning Edition, GenAI was included—either explicitly or implicitly—in all six of the key technologies and practices anticipated to have significant impact on the future of teaching and learning…”
Schroeder R. AI hallucinations may soon be history. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Oct 1. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/online-trending-now/2025/10/01/ai-hallucinations-may-soon-be-history
Excerpt: “An artifact of the race to the top in artificial intelligence is that mistakes inevitably occur. One of those many mistakes apparently led to hallucinations in outputs.”
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McMurtrie B. Teaching: What research says about how AI use affects learning. Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2025 Oct 2. Available from: https://www-chronicle-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/newsletter/teaching/2025-10-02
Excerpt: “This week, I: Describe some of the research on AI’s effects on learning; point you to an essay asking whether AI is making college students lonelier.”
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Warner J. Making progress on teaching in a world With AI. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Oct 3. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/just-visiting/2025/10/03/we-dont-need-retreat-challenge-ai-schools
Excerpt: “Some common traits at institutions successfully meeting the challenge of teaching in today’s world.”
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Alonso J. Admissions essays written by AI are generic and easy to spot. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Oct 6. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/10/06/admissions-essays-written-ai-are-generic-and-easy-spot
Excerpt: “The large language models struggled to create unique narratives, even when researchers provided them with specific characteristics of the essay writer. In fact, providing those specific characteristics often made the essays sound even more robotic, as the AI would force keywords about the author's identity into the essay, the researchers found.”
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Dohe K. Guest post — “Have you proved you’re human today?” Open content and web harvesting in the AI era. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. 2025 Oct 7. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/07/guest-post-have-you-proved-youre-human-today-open-content-and-web-harvesting-in-the-ai-era
Excerpt: “AI web harvesting bots are emerging as a significant IT management problem for content-rich websites across numerous industries. This is a byproduct of both the exploding market demand, as well as the technical choices and tremendous resource consumption of AI harvesters compared to traditional web crawlers.”
Hunt J. Stop dabbling with AI. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Oct 7. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/call-action/2025/10/07/why-higher-ed-must-be-intentional-ai
Excerpt: “From the demographic cliff to the search cliff, the drop in international enrollment to the decline in the public perception of higher education, our industry is fraught with challenges. When we combine these challenges with the escalating expectations from students and families and the ‘experience economy,’ we’re setting ourselves up to fall dangerously behind.”
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Frechette J. Guest post — the economics of AI in academic research. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. 2025 Oct 9. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/09/guest-post-the-economics-of-ai-in-academic-research
Excerpt: “But the most misunderstood issue, in my view, is the one at the heart of it all — how AI will reshape the economics of academic research.”
Placido R. A more human university: the role of AI in learning. EDUCAUSE Review [Internet]. 2025 Oct 9. Available from: https://er.educause.edu/articles/2025/10/a-more-human-university-the-role-of-ai-in-learning
Excerpt: “Far from heralding the collapse of higher education, artificial intelligence offers a transformative opportunity to scale meaningful, individualized learning experiences across diverse classrooms.”
Adams R. Pupils fear AI eroding study ability. The Guardian [Internet]. 2025 Oct 15. Available from: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/15/pupils-fear-ai-eroding-study-ability-research
Excerpt: “One in four students say AI ‘makes it too easy’ for them to find answers.”
Schroeder R. Higher education AI transformation 2030. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Oct 15. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/online-trending-now/2025/10/15/higher-education-ai-transformation-2030
Excerpt: “We have begun a transformation in higher education that will make us more responsive, efficient and effective at achieving our multiple missions. This will not be easy or without trauma, but it is necessary.”
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Mowreader A. Students weigh in on AI-assisted job searches. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Oct 16. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/life-after-college/2025/10/16/students-weigh-ai-assisted-job-searches
Excerpt: “A recent NACE survey found that fewer than one in three college students use AI tools in their job hunt, most often for writing cover letters, interview prep and tailoring résumés.”
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Carlson S. The Edge: stop assigning traditional essays. Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2025 Oct 16. Available from: https://www-chronicle-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/newsletter/the-edge/2025-10-16
Excerpt: “Ask any clear-eyed college professor what’s happening, and they’ll admit the truth: Everyone is cheating with generative artificial intelligence — tools like ChatGPT — and no one knows what to do about it. In this new academic reality, assigning traditional take-home essays isn’t just outdated; it’s becoming educationally indefensible.”
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Carden G, Freeman J, editors. AI and the future of universities. Oxford: Higher Education Policy Institute; 2025 Oct 16. 52p. Report No.: 193. Available from: https://www.hepi.ac.uk/reports/right-here-right-now-new-report-on-how-ai-is-transforming-higher-education
Excerpt: “A new collection of essays, AI and the Future of Universities (HEPI Report 193) edited by Dr Giles Carden and Josh Freeman, brings together leading voices from universities, industry and policy. The collection comes at a point when Artificial Intelligence (AI) is projected to have a profound and transformative impact on virtually every sector of society and the economy, driving changes that are both beneficial and challenging. The various pieces look at how AI is reshaping higher education – from strategy, teaching and assessment to research and professional services.”
Mowreader A. Listen: sharing resources, best practices in AI. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Oct 17. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/academic-life/2025/10/17/podcast-san-diego-colleges-create-equitable-ai
Excerpt: “Through this alliance, we’re trying to align resources and expand access to institutionally supported AI tools. So when people are using the free tools, they’re not free, right? They’re paying for them with their privacy, with their intellectual property. We want to make sure that they have access, not only to the training they need to use these tools responsibly, but also to the high-quality tools that are more accurate and that have commercial data protection so that they can rest assured that their intellectual property isn’t being used to train the underlying large language models.”
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Vasileios Chremos I & Repetto WA. A framework for generative AI in graduate professional development. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Oct 20. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/carpe-careers/2025/10/20/framework-genai-graduate-career-development-opinion
Excerpt: “This article proposes a four-stage framework—explore, build, connect, refine—for guiding students’ generative AI use in professional development.”
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Taubenheim C. Guest post — from language barrier to AI bias: the non-native speaker’s dilemma in scientific publishing. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. 2025 Oct 20. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/20/guest-post-from-language-barrier-to-ai-bias-the-non-native-speakers-dilemma-in-scientific-publishing
Excerpt: “For decades, EAL [English as an additional language] researchers have faced systemic disadvantages in publishing. Now, AI writing tools such as Grammarly, Paperpal, Perplexity, Claude, or ChatGPT promise relief of this linguistic burden. Yet, they bring new risks into science. They promise seamless language polishing, yet also carry the potential to blur our voice, standardize our style, and insert new biases.”
Gandal M. AI will transform the workplace. Will education keep up? Forbes [Internet]. 2025 Oct 20. Available from: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattgandal/2025/10/20/ai-will-transform-the-workplace-will-education-keep-up
Excerpt: “In the urgency to manage the classroom effects of AI, education leaders risk overlooking an even more profound development outside their walls: the dramatic reshaping of the labor market.”
Fixdal M. Without AI ‘quiet cars,’ learning is at risk. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Oct 21. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/learning-innovation/2025/10/21/without-ai-quiet-cars-learning-risk
Excerpt: “Just as there are quiet cars on trains, there can be quiet areas of the internet. Learning management systems and assessment platforms should be one such area.”
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Reyes E. Ask your students why they use AI. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Oct 22. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/teaching/2025/10/22/ask-your-students-why-they-use-ai-opinion
Excerpt: “There are many discussions right now about the exciting possibilities that AI can offer, and chatbots can certainly be valuable tools that can support learning and streamline the process of gathering and evaluating information. However, as crucial as it is to discuss the substantial downsides of AI, such as its environmental costs, we also need to examine the long-standing factors that sometimes encourage students to use AI unethically in the first place.”
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Mowreader A. Report: ChatGPT suggests self-harm, suicide and dangerous dieting plans. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Oct 23. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/health-wellness/2025/10/23/how-chatgpt-encourages-teens-engage-dangerous
Excerpt: “Artificial intelligence tools are becoming more common on college campuses, with many institutions encouraging students to engage with the technology to become more digitally literate and better prepared to take on the jobs of tomorrow. But some of these tools pose risks to young adults and teens who use them, generating text that encourages self-harm, disordered eating or substance abuse.”
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McCown J. The case against AI disclosure statements. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Oct 28. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/10/28/case-against-ai-disclosure-statements-opinion
Excerpt: “Mandatory disclosure statements feel an awful lot like a confession or admission of guilt right now. And given the culture of suspicion and shame that dominates so much of the AI discourse in higher ed at the moment, I can’t blame students for being reluctant to disclose their usage.”
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Mowreader A. Listen: putting AI tools in the classroom. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Oct 29. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/college-experience/2025/10/29/podcast-teaching-alongside-generative-ai-student
Excerpt: The author interviews a university associate provost for artificial intelligence to see how his university navigates the use of AI.
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Warner J. Teach writing, not document production. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Oct 29. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/just-visiting/2025/10/29/writing-classes-are-about-writing-not-ai-aided-production
Excerpt: “If we want students to learn to write, AI tools shouldn’t have much of a role. If we don’t think students need to learn to write anymore, I’m not sure what we’re doing here.”
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