Professors Without Borders

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Next week, Prowibo will be at the University of Lagos for a week focused on finance, entrepreneurship, and career readiness.

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jerseys in the room at University of Cape Coast, excitement is still there! The day started with a question to Jawad Khan: “What if one student in a group assignment uses AI without telling the others or the lecturer and ends up getting a higher grade?”

Jawad highlighted how trust between students and lecturers is built, and the boundaries of AI use in academia, with an emphasis on transparency and proper citation, focusing on supporting learning rather than being seen as cheating.

So, when should AI be cited in academic work? He emphasised that AI-generated summaries or ideas should be acknowledged. Small edits like grammar or word choice are treated as a regular tool, not something to cite. Even when AI is used to search for relevant papers, transparency still matters.

As Jawad put it, "The change will be slow, but each step forward will normalize using AI the correct and appropriate way."

Yesterday we held our second workshop on AI in higher education, focusing on assessment.

Jawad Khan opened with a live demonstration of how AI can support the design of assessments, and used it as a way into the TPACK and SAMR models.

Rather than dwelling on the tools themselves, these frameworks let us slow down and ask the questions that matter for teaching: why bring AI into assessment at all, and how to do it without eroding the thinking that learning depends on.

Students joined alongside faculty, enabling a deeper exchange on the role AI plays in their lives, futures and in higher education more generally.

One important takeaway came from Professor Emmanuel, from the Economics Department, who highlighted that a teacher needs to understand a tool well before integrating it into their practice.

It was a genuinely engaging conversation, and a reminder that the most useful discussions about teaching happen when students and faculty work through these questions together.