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California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it?

Cal Matters

It has been more than two years since the release of ChatGPT created widespread dismay over generative AI’s threat to academic integrity. Why would students write anything themselves, instructors wondered, if a chatbot could do it for them? He said $15 million is a lot of money to spend on a tool with such limited value.

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AI is helping students be more independent, but the isolation could be career poison

Cal Matters

And while he hasn’t asked ChatGPT to write any papers for him, he has turned to the technology when a blank page and a blinking cursor seemed overwhelming. But Alba, like many others in higher education, worries primarily about AI use as it relates to academic integrity, not social capital. And that’s a problem.

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ChatGPT Has Colleges in Emergency Mode to Shield Academic Integrity

Edsurge

To get a national perspective, EdSurge recently connected with Derek Newton, a journalist who runs a weekly Substack newsletter called The Cheat Sheet , about academic integrity and cheating. Or read a partial transcript below, condensed and edited for clarity. I did run nine submissions through GPTZero,” she says.

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Five Tips for Writing Academic Integrity Statements in the Age of AI 

Faculty Focus

The rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini, DALL-E, and Meta AI has created a pressing new challenge for educators: defining academic integrity in the age of AI. Tell your students what YOU allow Every college and university has an academic integrity/honesty or academic dishonesty statement.

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Are Algorithmically-Generated Term Papers the Next Big Challenge to Academic Integrity?

Edsurge

A growing number of companies now let students outsource their homework to a bot—or, more specifically, an algorithm that writes term papers for them based on chosen keywords. A student was supposed to write about ‘big data,’ and the [essay generator] called it ‘enormous information.’

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Five Tips for Writing Academic Integrity Statements in the Age of AI 

Faculty Focus

The rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini, DALL-E, and Meta AI has created a pressing new challenge for educators: defining academic integrity in the age of AI. Tell your students what YOU allow Every college and university has an academic integrity/honesty or academic dishonesty statement.

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How Writing Can Help Close the Achievement Gap: An Interview with Turnitin’s Elijah Mayfield

Edsurge

But Mayfield’s true passion is language—particularly writing. He also spent time consulting for high profile companies like CTB McGraw-Hill and College Board, which wanted to learn more about student writing. One thing that I’m working very hard to change is the baseline premise that writing is a high-stakes thing.