AI in Teaching and Learning Blog

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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Every month, our AI blog provides a selection of literature and resources on artificial intelligence in teaching and learning. Here’s the roundup for August 2025: 

Jack P. Colleges meet just a fraction of demand for AI training. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Aug 1. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2025/08/01/universities-meet-just-fraction-demand-ai 

Excerpt: “Interest in artificial intelligence training is soaring, but only a fraction of the demand is being met by higher education, according to a new report.”

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Mowreader A. AI skills needed in many postgrad careers—not just tech. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Aug 1. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/life-after-college/2025/08/01/ai-skills-needed-several-postgrad-careers-not 

Excerpt: “More companies are seeking employees with experience using artificial intelligence tools outside of traditional computer science or IT fields, according to a recent report.”

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Steinhorn L. A professor’s dilemma. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Aug 1. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/08/01/professors-dilemma-ai-opinion   

Excerpt: “Knowing a student used AI is not the same as being able to prove it...”

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McEvilly C. Using ITHAKA’s Product Tracker to prepare for generative AI. 2025 Aug 4. In: Choice. LibTech Insights [Internet]. Middletown, CT: Choice. Available from: https://www.choice360.org/libtech-insight/using-ithakas-product-tracker-to-prepare-for-generative-ai 

Excerpt: “It lists tools that are either widely used in higher ed or intended for a higher ed audience and tracks tools under development. The Tracker is formatted as a table, and it includes basic information about each tool, including fields for Purchasing Model, Description, Key Features, Pros, Limitations, and  Comments.”

Green S. Guest post — fear, learning, and Luddites: opportunities to lead the AI revolution. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. 2025 Aug 5. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/05/guest-post-fear-learning-and-luddites-opportunities-to-lead-the-ai-revolution 

Excerpt: “Like the Luddites, we stand at the threshold of a technological revolution. Their fight wasn’t against progress, but for progress with a conscience — a reminder that every leap forward should be guided by the question: not just can we, but should we?”

Schroeder R. AI in the university: from generative assistant to autonomous agent. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Aug 5. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/online-trending-now/2025/08/05/ai-university-assistant-autonomous-agent 

Excerpt: “This fall we are moving into the agentic generation of artificial intelligence.”

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Good KD. Bring back the blue-book exam. Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2025 Aug 6. Available from: https://www-chronicle-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/article/bring-back-the-blue-book-exam 

Excerpt: “Like many professors, I’ve recently abandoned take-home essays in favor of blue-book exams. This turn toward low-tech, proctored assessments isn’t about ignoring AI: It’s about giving students the chance to develop as writers and thinkers without its interference.”

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Palmer K. Understanding value of learning fuels ChatGPT’s Study Mode. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Aug 7. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/artificial-intelligence/2025/08/07/understanding-value-learning-fuels-chatgpts 

Excerpt: “Two teaching and learning experts experimented with ChatGPT’s new Study Mode, which promises to support “deeper learning” among college students. Google and Anthropic have also unveiled similar tools, but their effectiveness will likely depend on the student.”

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Nicholson J. Guest post — a smarter way to license research articles for AI. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. 2025 Aug 7. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/07/guest-post-a-smarter-way-to-license-research-articles-for-ai 

Excerpt: “LLMs are not yet capable of meaningfully engaging with most peer-reviewed research articles. Why? Because most of the content is locked behind paywalls and isn’t accessible. If LLMs are the future of information discovery, valuable research disseminated by scholarly publishers risks being left behind — unless we build a bridge between authoritative research and intelligent retrieval.”

Knott K. Google to spend $1B on AI training in higher ed. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Aug 7. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/08/07/google-spend-1b-ai-training-higher-ed   

Excerpt: “Google is joining other AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, in investing in AI training in higher education. All three companies have rolled out new tools aimed at supporting 'deeper learning' among students and made their AI platforms available to certain students for free.”

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Whittet EO. Students are using ChatGPT to write their personal essays now. Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2025 Aug 11. Available from: https://www-chronicle-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/article/students-are-using-chatgpt-to-write-their-personal-essays-now 

Excerpt: “AI can replicate the shape of a narrative, but not the struggle that makes it meaningful.

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Brand A, Carrera D,  Gero K, Silbey S. Guest post — who controls knowledge in the age of AI? Part 1. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. 2025 Aug 12. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/12/guest-post-who-controls-knowledge-in-the-age-of-ai-part-1 

Excerpt: “The rise of large language models (LLMs) is reshaping knowledge production, raising urgent questions for research communication and publishing writ large. Drawing on qualitative survey responses from over 850 academic book authors from across a range of fields and institutions, we highlight widespread concern about the unlicensed use of in-copyright scientific and scholarly publications for AI training.”

Brand A, Carrera D,  Gero K, Silbey S. Guest post — who controls knowledge in the age of AI? Part 2, recommendations for stakeholders. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. 2025 Aug 13. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/13/guest-post-who-controls-knowledge-in-the-age-of-ai-part-2-recommendations-for-stakeholders 

Excerpt: “Most authors are not opposed to generative AI, but they strongly favor consent, attribution, and compensation as conditions for use of their work. While the key legal question — whether LLM training on in-copyright content is a fair use — is being actively litigated, universities and publishers must take the lead in developing transparent, rights-respecting frameworks for LLM licensing that consider legal, ethical, and epistemic factors.

Hartberg Y. AI writing disclosures are a joke. Here’s how to improve them. Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2025 Aug 15. Available from: https://www-chronicle-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/article/ai-writing-disclosures-are-a-joke-heres-how-to-improve-them 

Excerpt: “Scholars should log every step of the process of composition.”  

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Conrad LY. INFIDEO Friday: How AI is changing our search experiences. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. 2025 Aug 15. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/15/infideo-friday-how-ai-is-changing-our-search-experiences   

Excerpt: “It may feel like AI overviews have been around for ages, but Sundin demonstrates that we’ve been gradually shifting our expectations from search results as a list of sources to direct answers curated by search engines.”

Stokel-Walker C. AI-generated responses are undermining crowdsourced research studies. New Scientist [Internet]. 2025 Aug 19 [updated Aug 21]. Available from: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2492984-ai-generated-responses-are-undermining-crowdsourced-research-studies   

Excerpt: “Many answers to online research questions show signs of being generated by AI chatbots, raising doubts about the validity of behavioural data collected this way.”

Schroeder R. AI can facilitate mastery learning in higher education. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Aug 20. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/online-trending-now/2025/08/20/ai-can-facilitate-mastery-learning-higher-education 

Excerpt: “What if higher education moved beyond rigid calendars and assembly-line teaching to AI-powered, mastery-based learning where every student truly understands the material before moving forward?”

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University of California Curation Center. Exploring how AI can help research data management. California Digital Library [Internet]. 2025 Aug 21. Available from: https://uc3.cdlib.org/2025/08/21/exploring-how-ai-can-help-research-data-management 

Excerpt: “One key application of AI we are exploring is enhancing the quality and scale of our metadata curation activities, including those for the Research Organization Registry (ROR). ROR, a widely adopted persistent identifier service for research organizations, operates on a model where anyone can submit a request to add or update its records.”

Mowreader A. Helping students emotionally before they turn to AI. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Aug 21. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/health-wellness/2025/08/21/helping-college-students-emotionally-they-turn-ai 

Excerpt: “A counseling center director shares ways to engage students using technology to mitigate potential harms from emotional reliance on generative AI chat bots.”

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Vines T. Rise of the machine readers: what they really want to read. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. 2025 Aug 21. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/21/rise-of-the-machine-readers 

Excerpt: “As AI systems become serious consumers of research, scholarly publishing must rethink its formats, business models, and quality controls — because machine readers don’t want PDFs, they want structured, reliable science.”

Goldsher NB. Rise of the incompetents. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Aug 22. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/08/22/rise-incompetents-opinion 

Excerpt: “We’re not paying enough attention to the dangers AI poses to the competence of our future electorate—and the workforce...”

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Warner J. On the AHA AI Guidelines. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Aug 22. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/just-visiting/2025/08/22/american-historical-association-comes-close-misses   

Excerpt: “A great document to start a conversation, but off the mark for the conversation we need to be having.’

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Zappavigna M. ‘I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that’: Moral regulation in refusals by LLM chatbots. New Media & Society. Published online August 25, 2025. doi: 10.1177/14614448251356686.

Excerpt: “This article explores how Large Language Model (LLM) chatbots regulate moral values when they refuse ‘unsafe’ requests from users. It applies corpus-based discourse analysis to examine how the chatbots employ tenor resources of positioning, tuning, and orienting in the rhetoric of their refusals. This method is informed by Systemic Functional Linguistics, in particular the discourse semantic system of appraisal, which models evaluative meaning. Despite their contrite openings, chatbot refusals tend to raise stakes in terms of tenor. They deploy prosodies of propriety targeted at moral and taboo stances and behaviours. This rhetoric of oppositioning involves encapsulating key values into iconised attitudes as the chatbots advise users about what is ‘important’ and ‘not appropriate’.”

Zhou H & Soulière M. From detection to disclosure — key takeaways on AI ethics from COPE’s Forum. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. 2025 Aug 25. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/25/from-detection-to-disclosure-key-takeaways-on-ai-ethics-from-copes-forum    

Excerpt: “On July 1, the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) hosted a Forum discussion on Emerging AI Dilemmas in Scholarly Publishing, exploring the main challenges facing the scholarly community. Top of mind, of course, is how rapidly evolving AI technologies are transforming the way research is conducted, reported, reviewed, and published, raising opportunities and also complex ethical and practical issues for all parties involved. “

Baiocchi A. An AI tool says it can predict students’ grades on assignments. Instructors are skeptical. Chronicle of Higher Education [Internet]. 2025 Aug 26. Available from: https://www-chronicle-com.us1.proxy.openathens.net/article/an-ai-tool-says-it-can-predict-students-grades-on-assignments-instructors-are-skeptical 

Excerpt: “Students looking for feedback on their assignments typically go to office hours, join study groups, or share drafts with classmates for peer review. Now there’s a new artificial-intelligence tool that says it can do the same thing.”

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Smith T. Want to disguise your AI writing? Start with Wikipedia's new list. Fast Company [Internet]. 2025 Aug 27. Available from: https://www.fastcompany.com/91392747/want-disguise-your-ai-writing-start-wikipedias-new-list 

Excerpt: “It’s a master class in clichés, strange tropes, obsequious tones of voice, and other assorted oddities of AI-generated prose.”

Doyle B, Gentle-Genitty C, Studley JS. Working smarter in the age of AI. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Aug 28. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/beyond-transfer/2025/08/28/how-technology-can-smooth-pain-points-credit-evaluation 

Excerpt: “Members of the LEARN Commission outline a vision to improve credit evaluation and bring more learners into higher education.”

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Katz DS, Hosseini M, Edmunds SC. Guest post – code plagiarism and AI create new challenges for publishing integrity. In: Society for Scholarly Publishing. 2025 Aug 28. Scholarly Kitchen [Internet]. Mount Laurel, NJ: Society for Scholarly Publishing. Available from: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/28/guest-post-code-plagiarism-and-ai-create-new-challenges-for-publishing-integrity 

Excerpt: “One may argue that AI is not taking over coding from human developers, but rather augmenting their capabilities. Although such gains may be true in some contexts, similar to the increasing usage of AI tools in writing text, when using AI to write code, responsibility for the integrity of the code is diffused.”

Flaherty C. How AI is changing—not ‘killing’—college. Inside Higher Ed [Internet]. 2025 Aug 29. Available from: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/academics/2025/08/29/survey-college-students-views-ai 

Excerpt: “Key findings from Inside Higher Ed’s student survey on generative AI show that using the evolving technology hasn’t diminished the value of college in their view, but it could affect their critical thinking skills.”

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As we gear up for the Fall semester, the Library team is excited to connect with Mount Sinai educators at the July 24th AI in (Bio)Medical Education: Innovation in Teaching and Learning symposium. We look forward to learning new strategies for incorporating AI into the curriculum from our invited scholars and innovators: 

Dr. Stephen Harmon, Associate Dean of Research at Georgia Tech Professional Education, and Dr. José Antonio Bowen, Principal and Lead Innovator at Bowen Innovation Group, LLC. 

We invite you to read Dr. Bowen's e-book available through Levy Library: Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning. A Mount Sinai email address and password are required to access this e-book.

After the symposium, we will update this post with any additional resources shared along with updates from the event co-sponsors: 
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Peter and Leni May Department of Medical Education
Graduate Medical Education (GME)
Windreich Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health
Scholarly and Research Technologies

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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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.”