Dear friends,
Here is a prime example in the outcome of 30 years’ failure in higher education policies:
“There are forums on contract cheating writers and I’ve seen them discuss that students have been caught for using AI and come back to have real people write things for them.”
Why?
1) The shift from learning-centred policies for assessment-driven policies in the curriculum. The Melbourne Model was bucking against this idiocy of the system.
2) The instrumental rationality that drives the degree-design of most universities. Again, The Melbourne Model was bucking against this idiocy of the system.
3) The Government’s push in its narrow-minded “Job-Ready” policy, and the acquiescence of Australian universities. Again, and again, The Melbourne Model was bucking against this idiocy of the system.
Why would changes from these policies relieve the pressure to make a choice to cheat?
1) The return to learning-centred policies from the narrow assessment-driven policies in the curriculum would stop the A.I. madness; e.g., students have to make oral examinations to report on what they, each, learnt; return to in-house written examination (remote computer terminal) on their thinking on what they, each, have learnt.
2) The re-development of the comprehensive education, a reformulation of the old approach but with more critical and creative design.
3) A serious attempt to bring back the “education-for-life” and the “lifelong learning” approach into the university ethos.
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Neville Buch
Professional Historian at Professional Historians Association (Queensland) Inc.
Neville Buch (Pronounced Book) Ph.D. is a certified member of the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). Since 2010 he has operated a sole trade business in history consultancy. He was a Q ANZAC 100 Fellow 2014-2015 at the State Library of Queensland. Dr Buch was the PHA (Qld) e-Bulletin, the monthly state association’s electronic publication, and was a member of its Management Committee. He is the Managing Director of the Brisbane Southside History Network.
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