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Podcasts
Andrew Parfitt and Kylie Readman on disruption
A HEDx event at University of Technology Sydney built around one question: are we actually going to change anything, or…
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Technology
Assessments not preparing students for AI: Danny Liu
A sector expert has called on curriculum and assessment bodies to update how students are tested to ensure they are…
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Technology
How AI ‘personalities’ shape our actions
Artificial intelligence models do not have personalities in the human sense, but they do display patterns of behavior that people…
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Podcasts
Universities in the AI storm
Lev Gonick, chief information officer at Arizona State University (AUS), and Alphia Possamai-Inesedy, head of student engagement at Western Sydney…
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Technology
UNSW’s AI companions for student wellbeing
UNSW researchers have developed AI companions designed to support students experiencing loneliness and isolation. The bilingual digital characters, Tom and…
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Podcasts
Podcast: A culture for change in AI era
In this episode Professor Lucy Marshall, deputy vice-chancellor (community and leadership) at the University of Sydney, joins Peter Chun, CEO…
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Commentary
The future of agentic AI for university students
Universities stand at a turning point. For years, headlines have framed AI as a threat to academic integrity. That narrative…
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Technology
Service fined $500k for helping students cheat
The Federal Court of Australia has ordered student support service Chegg to pay a $500,000 fine for giving students answers…
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Technology
Sector gets first AI pro vice-chancellor
La Trobe University has appointed the first AI-focused pro vice-chancellor position in the sector, who will also serve as chief…
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Podcasts
Tech leaders on how AI can help students
Managing Director of SEEK Investments Josh Nester is joined by leaders from some of the world’s most innovative EdTech companies…
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Policy & Reform
New standards address racism, disability issues
The panel responsible for setting operational standards for universities has asked academics their opinion of institutional approaches to racism, governance,…
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Policy & Reform
Unis should ban group assignments: Leeser
The shadow education minister has told universities they should ban group assignments and improve on antisemitism in his first address…
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Podcasts
What do leaders need to do about AI?
This episode includes Timothy Burt from the Future Skills Organisation, Gail Bray from Victoria University, Colin Gniel from LinkedIn and Kathryn Blyth from the University of Queensland.
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Technology
The impact of AI on graduate jobs
The head of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, has warned young people will suffer the most as an AI…
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Technology
Experts react to artificial intelligence plan
Australia's first national plan for artificial intelligence aims to upskill workers to boost productivity, but will leave the tech largely…
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Technology
How UNE trained an AI-literate workforce
Almost all employees at the University of New England use AI each day to augment tasks, despite the wider sector…
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Podcasts
HEDx: JCU vice-chancellor Simon Biggs
Vice-chancellor Simon Biggs said artificial intelligence is critical to help young people with companionship and loneliness.
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Technology
USyd responds to student concerns about ‘two-lane’ AI policy
The university arguably leading the sector in its use of artificial intelligence (AI) in assessment tasks has received criticism from…
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Podcasts
HEDx Podcast: AI in private vs public higher education sector – Episode 164
Partner at consultant KordaMentha John Dewar led a panel of public and private university leaders that re-examined the sector's current…
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Exclusive
How universities can use artificial intelligence to regain social license
Universities will need to prove to future students why university degrees are worth it in an artificial intelligence (AI) knowledge…
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Exclusive
Q&A: How will AI impact academic practice?
How artificial intelligence (AI) will be used in universities has been a hot topic of discussion since ChatGPT was made…
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Policy & Reform
HEDx Podcast: What would an AI-first university look like? – Bonus episode 134
In this bonus episode of HEDx Podcast, three top university leaders discuss what an artificial intelligence (AI) first university would…
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Policy & Reform
Fund unis to research gen AI in education, Senate inquiry recommends
An inquiry into generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) in education says the implementation of AI in education should be made…
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Podcasts
HEDx Podcast: Systemic issues with the HE model in an AI world – Episode 131
Deputy vice-chancellor of education at Edith Cowan University (ECU) Professor Rowena Harper is a leading innovator and pioneer in new…
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Features
An academic publisher has struck an AI data deal with Microsoft – without their authors’ knowledge
In May, a multibillion-dollar UK-based multinational called Informa announced in a trading update that it had signed a deal with…
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