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B.C. professors still processing how AI fits into post-secondary education

Educators are finding the line between using AI as a tool or for plagiarism
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Erin Kelly an associate professor and the director of the academic and technical writing program is like many in the post-secondary education system figuring out how AI can be responsibly used. (Ella Matte/News Staff)

An English instructor at the University of Victoria is one of many B.C. educators trying to figure out how artificial intelligence can be used as a tool to help students while limiting its potential to be harmful to their learning.

In associate professor Erin Kelly’s young adult fiction class, she allows her students to use AI to write a 500-word essay in one of the assignments.

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