Faculty Focus

JANUARY 3, 2023

The November newsfeed heralded the arrival of AI essay writing. AI (or Artificial Intelligence) essay writing recruits online software that sifts through information and generates a thoughtful written analysis. Enter a prompt, and AI can turn out a reasonable essay on everything from utilitarianism to the Krebs cycle…for free.

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Essay Plagiarism Writing Ethics 98

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

Refining his essay : ChatGPT provided models and feedback that helped him improve coherence and argumentation. That made me think about how people see success differently, so I added that idea to my essay. That helped me finish that part of the essay. and Che Guevara. It gave examples like the American Dream.

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Essay Ethics Feedback Languages 174

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

And as someone who is also a former journalist and editor for EdSurge, I recognize that we should never plagiarize, and that artificially-intelligent chatbots are very, very capable of responding to prompts like “Write me a 500-word essay on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.” What might be some responses that disagree with that idea?”

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Plagiarism Essay Instructors Intelligence 218

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2023

After all, chatbots can suddenly spit out five-paragraph essays and other texts in seconds, once considered something that only humans could generate. 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.

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Ethics Essay Teachers Academic Integrity 148

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The more I learn about ChatGPT and its rivals through attending webinars, talking to colleagues, and toying with this web-based tool, the more questions I have. Flower Darby (2023) recently wrote about the importance of having conversations with faculty and students about AI, academic integrity, AI in the workplace, and other topics.

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Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 124

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The more I learn about ChatGPT and its rivals through attending webinars, talking to colleagues, and toying with this web-based tool, the more questions I have. Flower Darby (2023) recently wrote about the importance of having conversations with faculty and students about AI, academic integrity, AI in the workplace, and other topics.

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Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 119

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. Plenty of college administrators in the U.S., to combat contract cheating.

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Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Attention 152

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

For instructors serving diverse, often underserved populations, AI raises critical questions: How has it evolved into a pedagogical tool? 2023) highlight AI’s dual edge: it clarifies concepts but also crafts compelling disinformation, posing risks to academic integrity. What are its merits and limitations? Spitale et al.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 91

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

ChatGPT Has Colleges in Emergency Mode to Shield Academic Integrity Many professors are expressing frustration and even “terror” over ChatGPT, the latest AI tool that students may be using to write their papers for them. That has academic honor committees scrambling to revise policies and provide resources to instructors.

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Instructors Lecturing Attention Essay 137

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

For instructors serving diverse, often underserved populations, AI raises critical questions: How has it evolved into a pedagogical tool? 2023) highlight AI’s dual edge: it clarifies concepts but also crafts compelling disinformation, posing risks to academic integrity. What are its merits and limitations? Spitale et al.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 86

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Students have always questioned the value of the content, assignments, and activities in their courses (“Why do I have to learn this?!”). Now, students are wondering why they have to do assignments that AI chatbots could do for them, especially when AI could do the work, like write an essay or research paper, in just a few seconds.

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Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Students have always questioned the value of the content, assignments, and activities in their courses (“Why do I have to learn this?!”). Now, students are wondering why they have to do assignments that AI chatbots could do for them, especially when AI could do the work, like write an essay or research paper, in just a few seconds.

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

And if those of us asking vital questions about access/cost, academic integrity, and a potential loss of linguistic diversity can be heard without accusations of knee-jerk paranoia. Maybe in a “post plagiarism” world as described by theorists like Dr. Sarah Elaine Eaton, we should ask more of these difficult questions.

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Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 116

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

And if those of us asking vital questions about access/cost, academic integrity, and a potential loss of linguistic diversity can be heard without accusations of knee-jerk paranoia. Maybe in a “post plagiarism” world as described by theorists like Dr. Sarah Elaine Eaton, we should ask more of these difficult questions.

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Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 111

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

“I need a 10 page essay written on the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. And you don’t need to be an expert in academic honor codes to know that it constitutes as cheating. Must have 7 resources.”

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Essay Ethics Exams Academic Integrity 90

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Include in the conversation a copy of a draft syllabus, required assignments, and any concerns you have about academic integrity. Be open to a discussion of the course you teach or plan to teach. This could be quite a revealing discussion. The librarians interviewed mentioned this as well.

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Syllabus Instructors Learning Assignments 98

EAB

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Underlying that range is the remarkable fact that the new AIs are capable of reading the entire Internet, remembering all they have read, and bringing that information to bear on any question they are asked. More generally, AI has raised fundamental questions about how to understand and measure student ability.

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Essay Attention Internet Questions 52

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2022

After trying it out on some essay prompts he’d been assigned, though, he noticed some problems. It seemed to take out some of the thankless legwork (or, some professors might argue, the work) from essay writing, only requiring a little pre-work and a touch of editing: “You can at least write papers 30 percent quicker,” he says.

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Plagiarism Essay Writing Students 208

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Since the release of ChatGPT late last year, the essay has been declared dead as an effective way to measure learning. 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”).

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Exams Essay Instructors Education 215

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2022

By Sabyn Javeri In a Zoom classroom, the teacher is no longer the central authority, argues the author of this essay, who explains why she thinks that’s good for education. Young A company that ostensibly sells tutoring support raises questions about academic integrity. More Employers Are Awarding Credentials. By Kevin R.

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Education Essay Academic Integrity Attention 161