- Author(s): Ojokheta, K.O. and Odusanya, Olatunbosun, S. E.
- Volume 11, No 2, 2023
This paper advocates a strategic framework to be developed by management of higher education institutions in Nigeria for ethical use of artificial intelligence in education and research arising from the integrity concern on whether the works submitted by students and researchers are actually their own or Al –generated and the challenge faced by academic staff in detecting Al-generated contents. It sequentially discusses the emergence and dimensions of Al generally and its potentials for reshaping the core foundations of higher education teaching,
learning and research; the prominent Al tools used by students, researchers, and management in higher education institutions in Nigeria; and the justification for the ethical use of Al in higher education in Nigeria. The paper concludes that management of higher education institutions in Nigeria must rely on the three freely available UNESCO’s online publications on Al and GenAl: the 2021 Recommendation on Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, the 2023 Guidance for Generative Al in Education and Research, and the 2023 Guidance for Policy- Makers on Al and Education in the development ethical use of Al in higher education in Nigeria and recommends capacity building programmes of students and graduate researchers to equip them with the knowledge of the responsible use of Al tools for learning and research; capacity building of academic staff on how to detect Al generated or written papers submitted by students, and the need for management to adopt more than one text-matching-software’s, apart from Turnitin, for ascertaining plagiarism index of submitted academic papers and projects.