Dyslexia and artificial intelligence
Most readers will now most probably have heard of ChatGPT. For some this word may fill us with hope and anticipation. Others may tremble. Before we describe the potential applications of ChatGPT...
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Artificial intelligence in educational research and practice
While artificial intelligence (AI), as an academic discipline, has been with us since the 1950s, knowledge of AI’s impact on formal education and all its stakeholders is in its infancy. To plug this knowledge gap, the BERA Blog invites research-informed contributions on all aspects of AI and educational research in a brand new BERA Blog series. From AI technology to the ethical implications of its use; from knowledge creation, representation to its assessment; from its application to pedagogy and the curriculum – we invite contributors to summarise new research, find new applications for existing scholarship and, above all, share research-informed opinions, experiences and advice. This promises to be an unmissable BERA Blog series. Please see our submission policy for details of how you can make a contribution.
Rethinking artificial intelligence through a relational lens
Artificial intelligence (AI) prompts an existential crisis for universities (Bearman et al., 2022), stoking concerns that we may lose the human touch or that teachers and institutions may be...
Artificial intelligence: What questions should we be asking?
The Russell Group (2023) recently published five guiding principles in advocating artificial intelligence (AI) usage in higher education. The document uses the ‘ethical use of generative AI’...
What can essay mills teach us about artificial intelligence?
Academics are increasingly warned that cheating assisted by artificial intelligence (AI) could pose new challenges to the world of learning and teaching (Cotton et al., 2023). To understand the...
The future of the artificially intelligent examination
In education, it is common for people to talk about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in assessment as something in the future, but it’s not – it’s here, and it’s been working away...
The reawakening of the old idea of children doing AI programming
In the recently published British Journal of Educational Technology article, ‘Constructionism and AI: A history and possible futures’, Niall Winters and I examine the 50-year history of...
Natural language processing: A tool for microgenetic analysis
Microgenetic analysis is a Vygotskyan educational research method that supports uncovering student sense-making activity during collaborative learning. Investigating learning using microgenetic...
Artificial intelligence and multimodal data in the service of human decision-making
The question, ‘What is an appropriate role for Artificial Intelligence(AI)?’, is the subject of much discussion and interest. There is little doubt about the great potential and the disruptive...
The ethics of using pedagogical agents in intelligent tutoring systems
Recognising that learning is a social activity, intelligent tutoring systems enable learners to engage in (virtual) face-to-face social interactions with autonomous animated software characters,...
Escape from the Skinner box
Now that artificial intelligence (AI) is very much in the public eye, the issue of its use in education has attracted much attention, both good and bad. Within the context of education, one...
Robots in the classroom? Preparing for the automation of teaching
Fifty years after Stanley Kubrick introduced cinemagoers to HAL9000, the prospect of a robot-infused world still feels more science fiction than social fact. Yet robots are steadily beginning to...
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Robots in the classroom? Preparing for the automation of teaching
Fifty years after Stanley Kubrick introduced cinemagoers to HAL9000, the prospect of a robot-infused world still feels more science fiction than social fact. Yet robots are steadily beginning to...
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Artificial intelligence and multimodal data in the service of human decision-making
The question, ‘What is an appropriate role for Artificial Intelligence(AI)?’, is the subject of much discussion and interest. There is little doubt about the great potential and the disruptive...
Continue reading blog post
The ethics of using pedagogical agents in intelligent tutoring systems
Recognising that learning is a social activity, intelligent tutoring systems enable learners to engage in (virtual) face-to-face social interactions with autonomous animated software characters,...
Continue reading blog post
Escape from the Skinner box
Now that artificial intelligence (AI) is very much in the public eye, the issue of its use in education has attracted much attention, both good and bad. Within the context of education, one...
Continue reading blog post
Natural language processing: A tool for microgenetic analysis
Microgenetic analysis is a Vygotskyan educational research method that supports uncovering student sense-making activity during collaborative learning. Investigating learning using microgenetic...
Continue reading blog post
The reawakening of the old idea of children doing AI programming
In the recently published British Journal of Educational Technology article, ‘Constructionism and AI: A history and possible futures’, Niall Winters and I examine the 50-year history of...
Continue reading blog post
What can essay mills teach us about artificial intelligence?
Academics are increasingly warned that cheating assisted by artificial intelligence (AI) could pose new challenges to the world of learning and teaching (Cotton et al., 2023). To understand the...
Continue reading blog post
The future of the artificially intelligent examination
In education, it is common for people to talk about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in assessment as something in the future, but it’s not – it’s here, and it’s been working away...
Continue reading blog post
Artificial intelligence: What questions should we be asking?
The Russell Group (2023) recently published five guiding principles in advocating artificial intelligence (AI) usage in higher education. The document uses the ‘ethical use of generative AI’...
Continue reading blog post
Rethinking artificial intelligence through a relational lens
Artificial intelligence (AI) prompts an existential crisis for universities (Bearman et al., 2022), stoking concerns that we may lose the human touch or that teachers and institutions may be...
Continue reading blog post
Dyslexia and artificial intelligence
Most readers will now most probably have heard of ChatGPT. For some this word may fill us with hope and anticipation. Others may tremble. Before we describe the potential applications of ChatGPT...
Continue reading blog post