Michael Cowling
Biographic Data
| ID | 3942333 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Cowling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Cowling |
| SIGNATURE | COWLING M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central Queensland University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1444-1563 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Is Generative Artificial Intelligence a Social Other for Parasocial Support in a Loneliness Epidemic?
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is increasingly being used in higher education not only for academic tasks, but as a form of social support. Students are turning to GenAI for reassurance, planning, emotional regulation, and rehearsal of difficult conversations, often in private and outside institutional view. And universities are rapidly introducing chatbots and social AI into their support services to ‘scale’ student wellbeing. This C…
How a responsive digital pedagogy using the students against academic misconduct framework decreased academic integrity breaches
Academic integrity is a cornerstone of higher education, essential for promoting fairness, honesty, and ethical scholarship. However, academic misconduct continues to pose a global challenge, with students increasingly engaging in behaviours such as plagiarism, exam cheating, contract cheating, and data falsification. These breaches compromise educational quality and erode institutional trust. Contributing factors include prior behavioural patter…
Collaboration or competition? The value of sector-wide collaboration in educational technology research
Collaboration or competition? This question is at the centre of this editorial, which explores the importance of sector-wide approaches to research into educational technology. This has become particularly relevant in recent years in response to a range of significant challenges or disruptions the tertiary education sector has had to face, for example, responding to the COVID-19 pandemic or the emergence of new generative AI tools. To address the…
When artificial intelligence substitutes humans in higher education
Artificial intelligence (AI) may be the new-new-norm in a post-pandemic learning environment. There is a growing number of university students using AI like ChatGPT and Bard to support their academic experience. Much of the AI in higher education research to date has focused on academic integrity and matters of authorship; yet, there may be unintended consequences beyond these concerns for students. That is, there may be people who reduce their f…
Leadership is needed for ethical ChatGPT
The OpenAI’s ChatGPT-3, or Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer was released in November 2022 without significant warning, and has taken higher education by storm since. The artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot has caused alarm for practitioners seeking to detect authenticity of student work. Whereas some educational doomsayers predict the end of education in its current form, we propose an alternate early view. We identify in this com…
Using leadership to leverage ChatGPT and artificial intelligence for undergraduate and postgraduate research supervision
ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) have hit higher education by storm. Much of the research focuses on how this – and similar – tools can be leveraged for effective education of undergraduate coursework students. In this study, we explore the emerging benefits and limitations of ChatGPT and LLMs in the context of undergraduate and postgraduate research supervision. What we found was that psychological …
Analysing mobile learning designs
Mobile learning is well established in literature and practice, but under-evolved from a rigorous learning design perspective. Activity theory presents a sophisticated way of mapping and understanding learning design, but for mobile learning this does not always translate into change in practice. The reported research addresses this by coupling a mobile learning specific approach to activity theory with a practice-based framework: the design for …
Improving paramedic distance education through mobile mixed reality simulation
There is growing evidence that the use of simulation in teaching is a key means of improving learning, skills, and outcomes, particularly for practical skills. In the health sciences, the use of high-fidelity task trainers has been shown to be ideal for reducing cognitive load and leading to enhanced learning outcomes. However, how do we make these task trainers available to students studying at a distance? To answer this question, this paper pre…
Augmenting reality for augmented reality
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When artificial intelligence substitutes humans in higher education
Artificial intelligence (AI) may be the new-new-norm in a post-pandemic learning environment. There is a growing number of university students using AI like ChatGPT and Bard to support their academic experience. Much of the AI in higher education research to date has focused on academic integrity and matters of authorship; yet, there may be unintended consequences beyond these concerns for students. That is, there may be people who reduce their f…
Augmenting reality for augmented reality
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Improving paramedic distance education through mobile mixed reality simulation
There is growing evidence that the use of simulation in teaching is a key means of improving learning, skills, and outcomes, particularly for practical skills. In the health sciences, the use of high-fidelity task trainers has been shown to be ideal for reducing cognitive load and leading to enhanced learning outcomes. However, how do we make these task trainers available to students studying at a distance? To answer this question, this paper pre…
Analysing mobile learning designs
Mobile learning is well established in literature and practice, but under-evolved from a rigorous learning design perspective. Activity theory presents a sophisticated way of mapping and understanding learning design, but for mobile learning this does not always translate into change in practice. The reported research addresses this by coupling a mobile learning specific approach to activity theory with a practice-based framework: the design for …
Leadership is needed for ethical ChatGPT
The OpenAI’s ChatGPT-3, or Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer was released in November 2022 without significant warning, and has taken higher education by storm since. The artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot has caused alarm for practitioners seeking to detect authenticity of student work. Whereas some educational doomsayers predict the end of education in its current form, we propose an alternate early view. We identify in this com…
Using leadership to leverage ChatGPT and artificial intelligence for undergraduate and postgraduate research supervision
ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) have hit higher education by storm. Much of the research focuses on how this – and similar – tools can be leveraged for effective education of undergraduate coursework students. In this study, we explore the emerging benefits and limitations of ChatGPT and LLMs in the context of undergraduate and postgraduate research supervision. What we found was that psychological …
Collaboration or competition? The value of sector-wide collaboration in educational technology research
Collaboration or competition? This question is at the centre of this editorial, which explores the importance of sector-wide approaches to research into educational technology. This has become particularly relevant in recent years in response to a range of significant challenges or disruptions the tertiary education sector has had to face, for example, responding to the COVID-19 pandemic or the emergence of new generative AI tools. To address the…
When artificial intelligence substitutes humans in higher education
Artificial intelligence (AI) may be the new-new-norm in a post-pandemic learning environment. There is a growing number of university students using AI like ChatGPT and Bard to support their academic experience. Much of the AI in higher education research to date has focused on academic integrity and matters of authorship; yet, there may be unintended consequences beyond these concerns for students. That is, there may be people who reduce their f…
Is Generative Artificial Intelligence a Social Other for Parasocial Support in a Loneliness Epidemic?
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is increasingly being used in higher education not only for academic tasks, but as a form of social support. Students are turning to GenAI for reassurance, planning, emotional regulation, and rehearsal of difficult conversations, often in private and outside institutional view. And universities are rapidly introducing chatbots and social AI into their support services to ‘scale’ student wellbeing. This C…
How a responsive digital pedagogy using the students against academic misconduct framework decreased academic integrity breaches
Academic integrity is a cornerstone of higher education, essential for promoting fairness, honesty, and ethical scholarship. However, academic misconduct continues to pose a global challenge, with students increasingly engaging in behaviours such as plagiarism, exam cheating, contract cheating, and data falsification. These breaches compromise educational quality and erode institutional trust. Contributing factors include prior behavioural patter…
Computer Science (6 works) · Higher education (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education (3 works) · Human–computer interaction (3 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Academic integrity and plagiarism (2 works) · Augmented reality (2 works) · Augmented Reality Applications (2 works)