Ethical and societal impacts of GenAI in Comp Ed: ITiCSE 2025 WG Report

Associate Professor Tony Clear, one of the Research Group Leaders of CIS RC has been one of the working group leaders for Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Details of the working group can be seen as WG8 in the link to the conference  https://iticse.acm.org/2025/2025-working-group-proposals/

The recent reports can be found below:

Mak, J., Nakatumba-Nabende, J., Clear, T., Clear, A., Abluwi, I., Andrei, O., Angeli, L., MacNeil, S., Oyelere, S. S., Rattigan, M. H., Sheard, J., & Zhu, T. (2026). Navigating the Ethical and Societal Impacts of Generative AI in Higher Computing Education Proceedings of the 2025 Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1145/3760545.3783975

In addition, two webinars have been held:

1. Mak, J., Zhu, T., & Clear, T. (2026). IACE Webinar Based on ITiCSE 2025 Working Group Report: "Navigating the Ethical and Societal Impacts of Generative AI in Higher Computing Education" [Webinar]. Institute for Advancing Computing Education (IACE)  https://bit.ly/ESI-Framework
2. Mak, J., Zhu, T., & Clear, T. (2026). ACM Ed Board Webinar Based on ITiCSE 2025 Working Group Report: "Navigating the Ethical and Societal Impacts of Generative AI in Higher Computing Education" [Webinar]. ACM Education Board.

Report on Ethical and Societal Impacts of GenAI in Comp Ed: ITiCSE 2025 will be profiled soon in the computing research association [CRA] news https://cra.org/crn

CIS Research Centre would like to congratulate Dr Clear and wish him success in his future research.