To begin the work of enacting the five principles outlined in the Manifesto, we ask that faculties outline practical steps for student-staff collaboration in the following priority areas:
- Clear and Consistent Policies: Students support efforts to develop clear and consistent policies on AI use. This involves outlining acceptable and unacceptable uses of AI in coursework, assessment, and research, and ensuring that guidance on AI use is easy to find, up to date and consistently applied across programmes, courses, disciplines and modules.
- Thoughtful Assessment Design: Students call on staff to resist the urge to return to invigilated closed-book exams as a measure to ‘protect’ assessment from AI. Programmes should offer a variety of assessments which account for the availability of AI tools and prioritise learning outcomes that value critical thinking, creativity, authentic engagement, and the development of students’ capacity for lifelong learning.
- AI Literacy Provision: The university must offer both students and staff the necessary training and resources to develop our understanding of how AI systems work, including their limitations, biases, and ethical implications.
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