ECEIA 2025, Day 1

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I am in Uppsala for the European Conference on Ethics and Integrity in Academia 2025 (June 16-19, 2025). I decided to "toot" the conference on Mastodon and have set up a Bluesky bridge that actually seems to be working. Since I am unable to blog and toot at the same time, I will be copying the toots here, hopefully in the correct order!

Mike Perkins is giving a keynote on the AI Assessment Scale (AIAS):
https://aiassessmentscale.com/

This is a very useful tool for getting instructors to think about what type of AI (if at all) can be used at an assessment level. The model is under a CC-BY-NC-SA license, so it can be adapted to fit any specific institution.

I show this in many of my presentations about AI in Education and people are so happy to see something that encourages a discussion about AI and not just a binary use/don't use decision.

 

Mike Perkins is discussing the advantages and challenges in using the AIAS at his university (British University Vietnam). They have lots of staff training, including workshops on "smashing" assessments, that is the IT staff showing other instructors how they could use an AI system to complete the assessment without it being obvious.

It is important to look very closely at the assessments we are using!

Good question about applying the AIAS to journal publications.

AI tools cannot be authors, as they do not have independence of thought. But how do you stop researchers from using AI? Some publishers are changing their AI declaration forms. Mike Perkins uses AI a lot himself. [I publish with him and yes, he does. I love finding errors in some of his generated stuff ;)] He notes that the tools will soon be so embedded in other tools (editors, etc) that we will have to change. No easy answers, we need more discussion here. 

Next up: a discussion on publication ethics with the panelists

* Bernhard Sabel, retired psychology professor from the University of Magdeburg, Germany
* Anna Abalkina, research fellow FU Berlin, Germany
* Sarah Elaine Eaton, professor at the University of Calgary and editor-in-chief of the International Journal for Educational Integrity https://edintegrity.biomedcentral.com/
* Laura Wilson, head of research integrity at Taylor & Francis and former member of the COPE council

moderated by Stefan Eriksson