Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2024

At Columbia University’s Science of Learning Research Initiative (SOLER), our work is dedicated to examining the academic experience of our students and instructors through a scientific lens. Much of the discourse about generative AI in higher ed has focused on issues of academic integrity.

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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

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. That instructor, Kyle Ali, took two key steps in his “Diversity in a Global Economy” course.

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Plagiarism Essay Instructors Intelligence 218

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 30, 2024

Drafts are produced faster, giving students more time for other academic or extracurricular activities. This change reduces writing assignment stress and time pressure, improving productivity and learning. Students need this educational benefit to succeed academically and build writing confidence.

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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

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. That’s going to be a real time saver for faculty,” he predicts.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The rise of ChatGPT, Google Bard, New Bing, and others in the academic space, however, is skyrocketing. As I scanned topics like academic integrity, academic dishonesty, and plagiarism, I quickly adopted others’ persuasive opinions based on limited information. Instructors can use AI for editing as well.

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Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 144

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Composer enables users to minimize the inappropriate use of AI and gain greater clarity into research and writing work, supporting them in using AI with integrity and effectiveness.

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Writing Ethics Plagiarism Academic Integrity 161

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. Carpenter agrees.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In addition, you could contact your institution’s LMS administrator and ask them to create a course for faculty to house links, tips for talking to students about AI and academic integrity, and other resources. Tutors and academic support staff could help students make these distinctions. Like Faye L.

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Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 124

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. Still, the unease about inaccurate accusations gives instructors and administrators pause around AI writing detection. And the promised accuracy set it apart from previous detectors.

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Plagiarism Academic Integrity Intelligence Instructors 119

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In addition, you could contact your institution’s LMS administrator and ask them to create a course for faculty to house links, tips for talking to students about AI and academic integrity, and other resources. Tutors and academic support staff could help students make these distinctions. Like Faye L.

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Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 119

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2023

And the fast-changing tech has now inspired students to spend part of their summer volunteering to make sure their instructors try AI for themselves and not simply throw up their hands in fear that students will use chatbots to cheat. 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

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2023

I am not an academic librarian. However, as a former instructor of online courses, I have seen first-hand the power of introducing a librarian to a group of online students and how such exposure can lead to curiosity on a topic and deepen student learning. I begin with a caveat. In fact, I have never worked in a library.

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Syllabus Instructors Learning Assignments 98

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The rise of ChatGPT, Google Bard, New Bing, and others in the academic space, however, is skyrocketing. As I scanned topics like academic integrity, academic dishonesty, and plagiarism, I quickly adopted others’ persuasive opinions based on limited information. Instructors can use AI for editing as well.

Intelligence 111

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice? Should you change the way you give exams and design assignments? Redesigning academic integrity statements is essential. Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI.

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice? Should you change the way you give exams and design assignments? Redesigning academic integrity statements is essential. Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Survey data from Best Colleges reveals that as of March this year, 22 percent of students admitted using ChatGPT to complete an assignment or exam, with 57 percent indicating they intend to use AI tools for future coursework. Or how they might feel if their instructor used ChatGPT to provide feedback on their assignments?

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Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 134

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Faculty developers and instructors can use this framework to harness AI’s potential, ensuring it supports rather than supplants their pedagogical roles. For instructors serving diverse, often underserved populations, AI raises critical questions: How has it evolved into a pedagogical tool? What are its merits and limitations?

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010). Rethinking Plagiarism in the Era of Generative AI.

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Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 122

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Faculty developers and instructors can use this framework to harness AI’s potential, ensuring it supports rather than supplants their pedagogical roles. For instructors serving diverse, often underserved populations, AI raises critical questions: How has it evolved into a pedagogical tool? What are its merits and limitations?

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 86

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

A new way to write their course policy on academic integrity or late assignments. I want them to take ownership over their learning and their time and assignments.” “I For so many instructors, whether they’re a TA, someone just starting out, or a seasoned professor with decades of experience, the answer is, “no.”

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Teaching Syllabus Instructors Disabilities 122

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

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Survey data from Best Colleges reveals that as of March this year, 22 percent of students admitted using ChatGPT to complete an assignment or exam, with 57 percent indicating they intend to use AI tools for future coursework. Or how they might feel if their instructor used ChatGPT to provide feedback on their assignments?

Minute Papers 119

Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 119

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Proponents of AI claim that AI tools should be integrated into lesson design, however, it is also the case that AI may be used by students as an unethical shortcut to wholly complete written assignments. The results of this project do not provide an indubitable foundation to address academic integrity concerns.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010). Rethinking Plagiarism in the Era of Generative AI.

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Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

A new way to write their course policy on academic integrity or late assignments. I want them to take ownership over their learning and their time and assignments.” “I For so many instructors, whether they’re a TA, someone just starting out, or a seasoned professor with decades of experience, the answer is, “no.”

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Teaching Syllabus Instructors Disabilities 98

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

As instructors and students press pause for winter break, journalists at EdSurge are likewise taking some time away from writing and editing during the last week of 2023. Manly’s a college instructor, educational consultant and former computer science teacher.

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Reading Essay Instructors Culture 142

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Proponents of AI claim that AI tools should be integrated into lesson design, however, it is also the case that AI may be used by students as an unethical shortcut to wholly complete written assignments. The results of this project do not provide an indubitable foundation to address academic integrity concerns.

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Essay English Lecturing Writing 111

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

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

This creates a new case study each time students enter the prompt the educator assigns into a GenAI tool. There are issues of academic integrity and plagiarism for users (like students) who may offload their work to the tool. I am an instructor teaching [biology] in [first year of university]. Here is a proposed prompt.

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Study Writing Evaluation Instructors 124

Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

Learning Assistantships in Community Colleges Learning assistants (LAs) are undergraduate students who engage as classroom support for faculty instructors in college courses (Ellerbrock et al., While the other instructor mostly focused on breaking the subject up in a simplified way. Physical Review Physics Education Research, 12 (1).

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

This creates a new case study each time students enter the prompt the educator assigns into a GenAI tool. There are issues of academic integrity and plagiarism for users (like students) who may offload their work to the tool. I am an instructor teaching [biology] in [first year of university]. Here is a proposed prompt.

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Study Writing Evaluation Instructors 114

EAB

JUNE 8, 2023

Thinking we can distinguish between AI-generated and human-generated work Concerned about academic integrity, many academic colleges have turned to plagiarism detection services in student assignments. For instructors, this means devising assignments that incorporate AI but push beyond its limits.

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Plagiarism Instructors Evaluation Academic Integrity 52

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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