ChatGPT-3 became freely available on 30 November 2022, causing widespread concern among academic circles. Some have argued that students can now produce written work using artificial intelligence with very little effort, which effectively undermines the value of a university degree. In this article, Kate Lindsay explores various scenarios that illustrate how ChatGPT might influence the very nature of university assessment in the future.
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Guest Articles Teaching Concepts
Spoilt for choice? How Online Self-Assessments can help you choose what to study.
Do you remember? Towards the end of your time at school when you could actually see when you would “finally” be finished, you were inevitably faced with a big question: what now? Travel around…
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Guest Articles Teaching Tips
Storytelling in three steps – How to teach and fascinate people using stories
As Martin Luther once said: “If you preach about the article of justification, the people sleep and cough; but if you begin to speak of histories and examples, they prick up both their ears,…
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If it was not obvious before, it definitely became so during the COVID-19 pandemic: social relatedness is an important element in teaching at university. Practical examples from the project “Supporting self-learning phases in lectures…
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Guest Articles Teaching Practice
Between the trap of completeness and the emphasis on competency – Scaffolding for designing degree courses
The opening of a new department for Special Needs Education at the University of Regensburg has provided an opportunity to completely redesign the special needs part of the degree course, which encompasses 120 credits.…