Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Students cheating on assignments is hardly a new or surprising problem. In research and surveys conducted by Dr. Donald McCabe and the International Center for Academic Integrity over the span of 12 years, 68 percent of undergraduates who responded admitted to cheating on tests or written assignments.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

This shift from standardized assignments to personalized projects can make learning more engaging and relevant for each student. EdSurge: How can educators safely and responsibly leverage AI for more personalized learning? The first step is to check if the AI tool is actually designed for education specifically. .

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

Tech giants Google, Microsoft and OpenAI have unintentionally assigned educators around the world major homework for the summer: Adjusting their assignments and teaching methods to adapt to a fresh batch of AI features that students will enter classrooms with in the fall.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

Many university campuses host “writing centers” where students can book time to get editing help on their written assignments. Acceptable use may vary from one course to another, and indeed from one assignment to another. However, these centers have limited hours, limited help and, sometimes, limits on expertise. So how can that work?

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Plagiarism Essay Instructors Intelligence 218

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Since teachers grade so many papers and assignments, many educators see that as an unacceptable level of error. For some assignments, she has asked students to install an extension for their web browser called Revision History and then grant her access. Opting in doesnt make sense in this situation, she argues.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

Can you tell me how you approached this assignment? UCL Institute of Education Press. Systematic review of research on AI in education. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 16(1). and Che Guevara. Saul : At first, I was confused about what a myth really means.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As college classes start up this fall, instructors are handing out syllabi and pointing students to official platforms for turning in assignments and participating in class discussions. But others worry that they can lead to violations of academic integrity.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

Australia is paying a lot more attention to this than any other country in the world,” says Tricia Bertram Gallant, director of the Academic Integrity Office at the University of California at San Diego. Still, no type of assignment is cheat-proof, she adds. Plenty of college administrators in the U.S.,

Plagiarism 152

Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Attention 152

Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Ask any educator who teaches five classes of 30 students each per day; there’s a lot of homework to assess. And if that homework involves writing assignments, the hours add up fast. Checking student work for possible plagiarism, specifically, has become a time consuming burden for many educators.

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Plagiarism Teachers Writing Assignments 167

Edsurge

MAY 27, 2021

Sollenberger argues that the best way to maintain academic integrity is for professors to redesign their exams and assignments when they do distance learning. “I He says privacy concerns are his biggest issue with the approach, and that some students have “spotty” internet access that can make the systems hard for them to use.

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Exams Distance Learning Academic Integrity Testing 167

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2020

Education is a privilege and personal growth comes from learning through experience.” But the marketing language on these sites boast of providing papers tailor made for an assignment, and promise to keep the communication with customers secret. The assignment was done on time, grammar was perfect, the quality was on the highest level.

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Essay Writing Academic Integrity Students 161

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

Academic integrity watchdogs also point out that a dismissal of cheating charges does not mean no misconduct occurred, only that it wasn’t proven. Regardless, the issue is on the radar of the detection services themselves. Still, argued the vice president of artificial intelligence Eric Wang, detection wasn’t going to be a problem.

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Plagiarism Academic Integrity Intelligence Instructors 119

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2023

To Chang’s point, plenty of professors remain concerned about the potential impacts of ChatGPT on academic integrity, even if they’re open to adopting the tools to improve teaching. I think many faculty have not sorted out what academic integrity is with this tech,” Dede said.

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Ethics Essay Teachers Academic Integrity 148

Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

And sure enough I found four of my homework assignments and my slides,” she said. “I When Elbridge Gerry Puckett, a professor at the University of California at Davis, noticed that answers to his assignments and a midterm exam were posted on Chegg, he contacted the site and asked its staff to take his intellectual property down.

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Study Exams Quizzes Academic Integrity 132

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

For instance, custom paper-writing services offer students work tailored exactly to what the professor has assigned. And sometimes professors feel like when they challenge a student over academic integrity issues, the college will side with the student since they are the customer.]

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The controversy has led some professors to advocate for designing assignments that are harder for students to find answers online for—like project-based work. And others have worked to protect academic integrity without using proctoring tools.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In surveys of more than 70,000 high school students by the International Center for Academic Integrity, 58% admitted to plagiarism. This creates an unhealthy, competitive environment which actually promotes cheating by shifting the focus from education to grades. It’s no wonder, then, that plagiarism is on the rise.

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Plagiarism Essay Internet Assignments 120

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2017

program at Carnegie Mellon University to create LightSide Labs, which used technology to improve classroom writing. In 2014, Turnitin acquired LightSide with a mandate to help shift Turnitin’s focus from academic integrity tools to those that emphasize student writing. In 2013, he left the Ph.D.

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Achievement Writing Essay Language 165

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

2023) highlight AI’s dual edge: it clarifies concepts but also crafts compelling disinformation, posing risks to academic integrity. Faculty development must address these tensions to ensure AI serves educational goals. Spitale et al. Instructors then provided final critiques, focusing on argumentation over mechanics.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 91

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

2023) highlight AI’s dual edge: it clarifies concepts but also crafts compelling disinformation, posing risks to academic integrity. Faculty development must address these tensions to ensure AI serves educational goals. Spitale et al. Instructors then provided final critiques, focusing on argumentation over mechanics.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 86

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

There will be NO change in the assignment process for course instructors as a part of this agreement. While Academic Partnerships does offer grading and other teaching assistance services that can be tapped if desired, these are supports in addition to assigned instructors. They are NOT replacements.

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Teaching Assistants Instructors Coaching Counselling 117

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2023

What do you think are the biggest benefits and challenges to incorporating generative AI into the educational experience? This can accelerate the rate at which students get going on an assignment and also accelerate the information transfer from educator to student. I think back to my analogy of the electric bike.

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Motivation Intelligence Academic Integrity Coaching 148

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

Universities usually have strict honor code policies about students cheating on exams, homework and other assignments. However, the Chegg Tutors honor code policy states that if a student’s institution contacts Chegg to investigate his or her academic integrity, Chegg is authorized to fully cooperate and commonly does so.

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Essay Ethics Exams Academic Integrity 90

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

I’ve been reading more Substack newsletters about education this year as well and have learned so much from so many of them, including Derek Newton’s The Cheat Sheet about academic integrity; Nick Fouriezos’s Mile Markers about rural higher education; and Ethan Mollick’s One Useful Thing , which has included many timely nuggets on AI in education.

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Reading Essay Instructors Culture 142

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

Crucially, this method of writing a case will allow the educator to stay in charge at every step in the design, and it will use GenAI as a research and creative assistant. This creates a new case study each time students enter the prompt the educator assigns into a GenAI tool. It’s a personalized, adaptive instruction.

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Study Writing Evaluation Instructors 124

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

Crucially, this method of writing a case will allow the educator to stay in charge at every step in the design, and it will use GenAI as a research and creative assistant. This creates a new case study each time students enter the prompt the educator assigns into a GenAI tool. It’s a personalized, adaptive instruction.

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Study Writing Evaluation Instructors 114

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

After all, students can now enter any assigned question into an AI chatbot and get a perfectly formatted, five-paragraph essay back ready to turn in (well, after a little massaging to take out any AI “hallucinations”). As educators have looked to alternatives to assigning essays, one idea that has bubbled up is to bring back oral exams.

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Exams Essay Instructors Education 215

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2022

After trying it out on some essay prompts he’d been assigned, though, he noticed some problems. The figures show that cheating has increased dramatically, but the actual figures may be undercounts, says Derek Newton, who runs The Cheat Sheet , a newsletter focused on academic fraud. The writing could be awkward. What’s causing that?

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Plagiarism Essay Writing Students 208