Generative AI policy for students with conditional permission and acknowledgement
Students may use generative AI to support their learning and, unless instructed otherwise, in assessment preparation, provided the use is acknowledged. The policy pairs permission with three prohibitions covering confidential information, personal data and copyrighted assessment content, and warns that over-reliance may hinder skill development.
Record
- Level
- Meso
- Domain
- Ethical Frameworks and Responsible Use
- Institution
- The Open University
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Delivery model
- Fully online
- Context
- Higher education
- Maturity
- Embedded
- Scalability
- Embedded
- Transferability
- Embedded
- Source report
- D3.1
Source trail
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- 01D3.1 · Report on trends in policies and practices on the use of LLM and generative AI in the partnership: Report 1ADMIT (Erasmus+, EADTU)p. 33Quotation located in the source
Students may use Generative AI to support their learning.
The permissive opening is what distinguishes this policy from prohibition-led instruments elsewhere in the partnership.
Evidence
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The policy text is reproduced in the partner table in enough detail to show both the permission and its conditions, rather than being summarised as a stance.