Dr Simon Paul Atkinson (PFHEA)
Enhancing Institutional Outcomes
It was my pleasure last week to deliver a mini-workshop at the Independent Schools of New Zealand Annual Conference in Auckland. Intended to be more dialogue than monologue, I’m not sure if it landed quite where I had hoped. It is an exciting time to be thinking about educational governance and my key message was …
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I briefly had a form up on my website for people to be able to contact me if they wanted to use any of my visualizations, visuals of theory in practice. I had to take it down because ‘people’ proved incapable of reading the text above it which clearly stated its purpose. They insisted on …
Continue reading “Authenticity: honest authors, being human”
During the Empower Learners for the Age of AI (ELAI) conference earlier in December 2022, it became apparent to me personally that not only does Artificial intelligence (AI) have the potential to revolutionize the field of education, but that it already is. But beyond the hype and enthusiasm there are enormous strategic policy decisions to …
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The threat to the integrity of educational assessments is no longer from ‘essay mills’ and contract cheating but from Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is not so long ago that academics complained that essay mills, ‘contract cheating’ services, and commercial companies piecing together ‘bespoke’ answers to standard essay questions, were undermining the integration of higher education’s …