6. Similar Initiatives at Other Universities

Needless to say, SUTD is among the many universities that are developing guidelines for their faculty and students to navigate the shifting landscape of higher education. As a full-fledged guideline detailing SUTD’s uniquely interdisciplinary Design·AI pedagogy awaits further development, find below some of the robust guidelines published by other universities. They are shared here, in hopes of offering additional support, resources, and pointers for students and faculty as we collectively and continuously define the optimal adoption of AI at SUTD.

• The University of Sydney has adopted what they call a “two-lane approach” assessment, which controls how and when to use AI depending on the types of learning objectives. See their “AI for Educators,” written by a team of instructors, which offers multiple examples of different assessment methods. Also of note is their “AI in Education,” prepared by students, detailing different AI tools that could help aid the learning process.

• The award-winning AI Assessment Scale is developed by education researchers Mike Perkins, Leon Furze, Jasper Roe, and Jason MacVaugh in Vietnam, UK, and Australia, and has been translated and adopted around the world. Their guiding question is “how much AI involvement is permitted in this task?,” which they answer with five levels of involvement.

We will share more resources by way of a “literature review” practice, once we vet the academic rigour of different initiatives. If you know of resources developed by your colleagues in your field that could benefit SUTD faculty and students, please share them with the Task Force with a brief explanation of their significance.