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How do you deal with the latest developments around generative AI like ChatGPT in (higher) education? Can you still conduct reliable assessments if students can get the information and whole texts ready-made? Can we prevent students from using these kinds of tools? Should we? Is it to be seen as fraud? What policy is needed? Should we want to prevent it or can we actually make good use of it? At UT (and elsewhere), the risks but also the added value of this development are being explored. 
Below are a number of sources, both from the UT itself and from outside the UT related to this topic. 

  • On this site regular posts and the latest news regarding AI and Education (at the UT) can be found. 

  • A new UT toolbox for examiners to support them with assuring high quality assessments has been created (partly still under construction). Some additional themes are added, such as: AI and assessment | Assessment support  // Beneficial use of AI for teaching, learning and assessment | Assessment support

  • The developments regarding AI are going fast. Detection has become kind of a cat-and-mouse game. No AI detector can provide complete accuracy, especially as language models continue to evolve, with every chance for false positives and negatives. 
    Important points to consider are also privacy and security issues. If you use free tools, chances are that they might compromise user privacy or security. When paid services are used, data protection and compliance with privacy regulations might be better, but this has to be well established.  
    For the UT emplyees we now have Microsoft Copilot available. On the Copilot website you can work with this chatbot by using your UT-account. But although it is a closed-off environment, it does not (yet) adhere to the privacy agreements in data processing for the UT and any confidential data like personal, research or student information, should not be used [read more in Available for all employees: Microsoft Copilot (utwente.nl)]. Nevertheless Co pilot can be useful and assist you in your education efforts in other ways, see Meet your AI assistant for education: Microsoft Copilot | Microsoft Education Blog. 

    So for detection it might work better to trust your own eyes and feelings, although to prove something remains difficult. As teacher you can be alert on 'signals' suchs as:

    • (In)Consistency in Style. Long, complex sentences. Lengthy elaborations. 
    • Use of specialized terminology that differs from the terminology used in the course.
    • Mastery of the content exceeds what was offered in class. 
    • (In)Consistency in the quality of work across assignments.
    • Incorrect references. Unusual references. 
    • The work of the student doesn’t follow the required document formatting.
    • Similarity of work if a lot of stduents use AI with the same prompts. For instance for a programming or coding assignment. 
    • Unusual punctuation marks in a text. 

    You can also try out what will happen if you put your assignment text in an AI programme or the prompts you expect your students will use. 
    An interesting article about this topic (commercial site): Universities can detect ChatGPT, at least to some extent, by Funmi Somoye, in PC Guide (April 2024)

    Some detection tools mentioned by AI self (but keep in mind what is said in the introduction): 
    GPTZero // Scribbr’s AI Detector // Turnitin // CopyLeaks // Undetectable.ai. In this article some other tools are named: GPT detector. 
     

Support or a workshop?

Looking for support about AI in education? Contact TELT: TELT@utwente.nl   AI In Education | Learning & Teaching Portal (utwente.nl)

University Twente sources

SURF sources (Netherlands)

SURF is a cooperative association of Dutch educational and research institutions. They aim to work together to acquire or develop the best possible digital services and to encourage knowledge sharing through continuous innovation. SURF published several articles and blogs about ChatGPT and offers webinars on this topic. 

National sources

International sources

Courses

There are courses on this topic available free online. Below, some are mentioned (not checked for quality), but there surely will be more.
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