DC.title: Generative AI in Higher Education Teaching & Learning: Principles for Ethical AI Adoption
DC.creator: Colin Lowry
DC.creator: James O'Sullivan
DC.creator: Ross Woods
DC.creator: Tim Conlon
DC.date: 2025-12-22
DC.description: This document sets out a detailed, values-led framework to support the ethical adoption of generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) in teaching and learning across Irish higher education. It builds on the HEA Generative AI Policy Framework by translating high-level principles into concrete provisions to guide institutional policy, governance and educational practice.

The principles address five core areas: academic integrity, equity and inclusion, critical engagement and AI literacy, privacy and data governance, and sustainable pedagogy. Together, they provide institutions with a practical reference for navigating the ethical, pedagogical and organisational challenges associated with generative AI, while safeguarding academic standards, student rights and institutional autonomy.
DC.identifier: https://hub.teachingandlearning.ie/resource/generative-ai-in-higher-education-teaching-learning-principles-for-ethical-ai-adoption/
DC.publisher: National Resource Hub
DC.language: en-US
DC.format: application/pdf
DC.type: Article
DC.subject: academic integrity
DC.subject: AI Literacy
DC.subject: Ethics in Education
DC.subject: generative AI
DC.subject: Higher Education Policy
DC.subject: Teaching and learning
DC.relation: https://hub.teachingandlearning.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/hea-genai-ethical-adoption.pdf