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Welcome to the AI in Education podcast With Dan Bowen from Microsoft Australia and Ray Fleming from InnovateGPT It's a weekly chat about Artificial Intelligence in Education - what it is, how it works, and the different ways it is being used. It's not too serious, or too technical, and is intended to be a good conversation of background information. Of course, as well as getting it here on the website, you can also just subscribe to your normal podcast service:      “This podcast is produced by a Microsoft Australia & New Zealand employee, alongside an employee from InnovateGPT. The views and opinions expressed on this podcast are our own.”

Feb 13, 2025

Book Club Podcast?

Before we even got to the News and Research, this week we discussed the AI-related books we're currently reading:

Dan's reading:

Ray's reading 

News Links

Links to the reports and news we discuss in the episode:

OpenAI's new Education newsletter
https://openaiforeducation.substack.com/

Ethan Mollick's new "AI in Education: Leveraging ChatGPT for Teaching" course on Coursera
https://www.coursera.org/learn/wharton-ai-in-education-leveraging-chatgpt-for-teaching

World Economic Forum "Future of Jobs report"
https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-report-2025/infographics-94b6214b36/

Student expelled and deported because they were accused of using ChatGPT by their professor. So they're suing their professor
https://www.fox9.com/video/1574324

Digital Education Council Global AI Faculty Survey 2025
https://www.digitaleducationcouncil.com/post/digital-education-council-global-ai-faculty-survey
We'll discuss this report with one of the authors in next week's episode

UK government policy paper on "Generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education"
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/generative-artificial-intelligence-in-education/generative-artificial-intelligence-ai-in-education

Year13 Case Study on AI use
https://news.microsoft.com/en-au/2024/12/13/guiding-school-leavers-with-ai-support-year13s-mission-to-democratise-opportunities-for-young-people/

AI Use by industry employees - US, 2024
https://www.nber.org/papers/w32966

In the discussion of energy use by AI, Ray mentioned some stats from this research report:
"The Carbon Emissions of Writing and Illustrating Are Lower for AI than for Humans" 
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2303/2303.06219.pdf

Research Papers

And finally, links to the research papers we discussed this week

ChatGPT and Its Educational Impact: Insights from a Software Development Competition
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03779 

How to Align Large Language Models for Teaching English? Designing and Developing LLM based-Chatbot for Teaching English Conversation in EFL, Findings and Limitations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.04987 

AI Meets the Classroom: When Does ChatGPT Harm Learning?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.09047 

Are Large Language Models Good Essay Graders?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13120 

An Education Researcher's Guide to ChatGPT
https://osf.io/spbz3 

A Step Towards Adaptive Online Learning: Exploring the Role of GPT as Virtual Teaching Assistants in Online Education
https://osf.io/preprints/edarxiv/rw45b 

The AI Assessment Scale (AIAS) in action: A pilot implementation of GenAI-supported assessment
https://ajet.org.au/index.php/AJET/article/view/9434