eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2023

Featuring short videos in English and Spanish that are paired with ready-to-use instructional activities, this exciting new content brings compelling natural science phenomena alive for students.   To support academic integrity, randomized questions ensure each student is assigned unique problems to work on.

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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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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

As educators, it is important to understand the underlying causes of this behavior and develop assessments that encourage academic integrity. Do you support student use of AI in school and/or for assignments? While AI itself isnt inherently problematic, its use in cheating can hinder students’ learning and development.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2021

Sollenberger, associate provost and a professor of political science at the university. 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 I favor more-frequent, lower-stakes assessments,” he says.

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Exams Distance Learning Academic Integrity Testing 176

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

By fostering self-awareness and self-regulation, metacognitive strategies empower students to monitor their learning processes, set achievable goals, and adapt their approaches to overcome linguistic and academic challenges. Can you tell me how you approached this assignment? and Che Guevara. So, I started by looking it up online.

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Essay Ethics Feedback Language 168

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. My initial encounters with this rising AI were biased.

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Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 144

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2017

In 2014, Turnitin acquired LightSide with a mandate to help shift Turnitin’s focus from academic integrity tools to those that emphasize student writing. Focus on frequent low-stakes writing assignments rather than occasional high stakes writing assignments like term papers. In 2013, he left the Ph.D.

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Achievement Writing Essay Language 165

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). McDonough, M., Okoroafor, N., Teachers College Press.

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Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 118

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 Disabilities 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.

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 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. My initial encounters with this rising AI were biased.

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Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 111

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

JANUARY 3, 2023

While students have, for decades, had the opportunity to hire a human writer to complete essay assignments, online AI software services can write essays instantly at prices that range from free to about $50 per month. For now, though, we asked AI itself to tell us how to address its threats to academic integrity.

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Essay Plagiarism Writing Ethics 145

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). McDonough, M., Okoroafor, N., Teachers College Press.

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Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 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 119

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

2023) highlight AI’s dual edge: it clarifies concepts but also crafts compelling disinformation, posing risks to academic integrity. AI and Academic Integrity: Redrawing Assessment The rise of AI tools like ChatGPT has forced educators to rethink traditional assessment methods. Spitale et al.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 88

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Jeff While it’s not strictly about education, I’ve become an even bigger fan this year of the Hidden Brain podcast , which explores the science of what makes us tick. Manly’s a college instructor, educational consultant and former computer science teacher. I give “The Anthropocene Reviewed” five stars. Read more from Emily here.

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Reading Essay Instructors Culture 147

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 126

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

2023) highlight AI’s dual edge: it clarifies concepts but also crafts compelling disinformation, posing risks to academic integrity. AI and Academic Integrity: Redrawing Assessment The rise of AI tools like ChatGPT has forced educators to rethink traditional assessment methods. Spitale et al.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 78

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.

Essay 111

Essay English Lecturing Writing 111

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

This creates a new case study each time students enter the prompt the educator assigns into a GenAI tool. You can read about them on the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science website (see the section, Teaching with Cases ). Journal of College Science teaching, 27(4), 236-239. Examine the output. link] Herreid, C.

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Study Writing Evaluation Instructors 124

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 3, 2023

While students have, for decades, had the opportunity to hire a human writer to complete essay assignments, online AI software services can write essays instantly at prices that range from free to about $50 per month. For now, though, we asked AI itself to tell us how to address its threats to academic integrity.

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Essay Plagiarism Writing Ethics 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

This creates a new case study each time students enter the prompt the educator assigns into a GenAI tool. You can read about them on the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science website (see the section, Teaching with Cases ). Journal of College Science teaching, 27(4), 236-239. Examine the output. link] Herreid, C.

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Study Writing Evaluation Instructors 111

Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

We wanted faculty to feel supported engaging in the work of effective mathematics teaching, students to feel that they had increased opportunities to get help with class activities and assignments, and the LAs themselves to feel valued and gain meaningful experiences through their work in the classroom. Education Sciences, 8 (4), 168.

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Learning Instructors Math STEM 98

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