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Bring back the viva.
Let's take a look at an interesting real example: & [Don’t let your students use AI as a ghostwriter]
What is new? Neoliberals often quote Adam Smith, but few have actually read Wealth of Nations, much less Moral Sentiments. So-called Marxists never read Capital. Many refer to the Bible for moral justifications, but struggle to find the passages they believe are written. To read or not to read has always been a choice. Nothing new under the sun - Ecclesiastes 1:9.
well she should do her job.. If as an academic you are not able so see if it is fabricated... You may teach at Oxford but you are not doing your job
Robert Hutchinson The difference is people are now offloading both their thinking and reading, where before it was just their reading. People are losing the skills of critical thinking and the ability to construct an argument because they're not actively engaging in it.
Adrian Scandrett my thoughts exactly. There should be multiple formative presetation as well as viva, plus summative viva.
The solution is obvious just award degrees based on final written exams
Increase “live thinking” as assessment.
With the greatest respect, l think academicians, need to change the way they Assess.. For example a large part of the coursework should be practical where pupils have to answer questions on what they have written and that should form a large part of the grade. AI is here to stay so it's time to hear some creative solutions.
I am sorry to say that I my experience, this was the case even before AI.
Sharmin Shabnam Rahman, PhD, FHEA, CMBE, FCMA, CGMA.
Scary
What I hate most is we are grading AI, not students. This fact makes our evaluation nonsense.
I wish the assessing process would: 40% written and 30% project 30% viva.
LeVinh Nguyen Exactly. We pretend to teach and they pretend to learn. Performative "education". With new assessments, however, this could change.
A lot of students weren't really reading the books anyway. AI has revealed a structural issue from education's Pandora's Box. We can either try to stuff it back in there (good luck), or work towards system-wide structural change to ensure effective learning and critical thinking is taking place.
(sadly, the article is behind a paywall, so I don't know what it says... but I happen to be taking a break from grading essays to scan linkedin to remind myself of other things I could be doing right now lol). It's a sad state of affairs. I think about how the students of today will possess degrees but none of the actual knowledge and skills that those degrees represent. It isn't all of them, thankfully. There are some students in my classes who take a stance against using AI. They see it as harmful to the environment or just think it's wrong. For those few, I carry on trying to do my job. For me, the saddest part is that those that are choosing to shortcut and outsource the difficulty of learning are doing themselves a great disservice. I wish I could convince each one of my students (and all of their parents and caregivers who are guilty of pushing them to get good grades) that the grades ultimately mean nothing. It's what they actually learn that matters. Anyway, I just hope they figure it out before they have to run the planet.
This is just another example of an academic who does not understand the role of AI in education. Sad that this comes from one of UK's top universities. Really, university academics must be re-trained in their future role at academia if they hope to stay relevant.
Yes, students can now use AI to generate essays without deeply reading books, but the real issue is not AI itself — it is whether universities are building strong ethical, intellectual, and practical frameworks around it. AI and machine learning can become far more dynamic than static textbooks when designed with reliable data, strong systems, and continuous improvement. But AI cannot replace human judgement, critical thinking, creativity, emotional understanding, or wisdom. What is deeply worrying is the growing gap between powerful AI capability and poor-quality AI implementation — including weak AI-driven recruitment, aggressive behavioural targeting, and low-quality Account-Based Marketing in higher education itself. If even world-leading universities increasingly depend on commercial AI engagement while struggling to protect deep learning cultures, it raises painful questions about financial pressure, institutional priorities, and the future identity of UK higher education.
Actually, have a physical thorough VIVA for Bachelors, Masters and PhD. May be Oral Exam every 6 months, grill, if they possess all the knowledge despite AI was cranking in the backend, so be it, they are good to go. But from my experience so far, if AI is cranking full-on in the backend, students will never pass an oral exam unless the examiners are clueless...