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The BERA Guides: Critical Insights into Educational Research and Practice

Short, research-informed yet accessible introductions to key, interdisciplinary topics impacting education research and practice

Summer 2024

Research Intelligence issue 159: Partnering with generative artificial intelligence to write: The future of academic publishing

The future of AI in English language teaching and learning

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

Artificial intelligence (AI) can bring immediate and long-term benefits, but also challenges and risks to education systems (UNESCO, 2023). This is a hotly contested topic in English language...

BERA Artificial Intelligence (AI) Statement

Generative AI tools have rapidly evolved and are increasingly integrated into academic life through research, writing, and review processes. Their use must be approached with transparency,...

Generative AI in academia: Friend or foe?

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 marked a potential turning point in higher education. As a prime example of generative AI, capable of creating content and solving problems in previously...

Philosophical discourse surrounding artificial intelligence: Extended findings of a meta-synthesis on ChatGPT

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

In his seminal paper in 1950, ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’, Alan Turing raised the question: ‘Can machines think?’. Igniting debates among both philosophers and computer...

Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research, fifth edition (2024)

The fifth edition of BERA’s Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research has been revised and updated to enable researchers to conduct their work to the highest ethical standards in any and all...

Generative artificial intelligence and a return to dialogue in education

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

Socrates famously held a low opinion of writing, believing it encouraged superficial understanding. True understanding, he argued, requires face-to-face dialogue. This is not found on the written...

The role of language models in student learning and assessment

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

Language models, such as ChatGPT, Google Bard, claude.ai and pi.ai, are artificial intelligence-powered chatbots that generate intelligent-sounding text when responding to user prompts. Students...

AI is the answer: What was the question?

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

As we navigate through a significant technological paradigm shift, particularly in the education and healthcare sectors, my new book (Krumsvik, 2023) delves into the intricacies of artificial...

The impact of AI on the future of education

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

Artificial intelligence (AI) in education is not new. The pioneers of AI during the 1950s were cognitive scientists who were directly involved in education research (Doroudi, 2023). However, there...

Meet and Discuss – Artificial and Human Intelligence

The Artificial and Human Intelligence SIG meeting was held to network with colleagues, learn about the activities of the SIG and plans for 2024 and onwards. This meeting was hosted online, where...