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

APRIL 3, 2025

As educators, it is important to understand the underlying causes of this behavior and develop assessments that encourage academic integrity. How this leads to cheating : Without an emphasis on academic integrity or a strong student-teacher relationship, students may feel less inclined to follow the rules.

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Academic Integrity Failure Students Culture 206

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. Refining his essay : ChatGPT provided models and feedback that helped him improve coherence and argumentation.

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Essay Ethics Feedback Language 168

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. It deemphasizes the role of essay writing and communication—the stuff that in fact is probably more valuable for the majority of students. In 2013, he left the Ph.D.

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Achievement Writing Essay Language 165

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Lessons From This 'Golden Age' of Learning Science Experts have described this as a 'golden age' of discovery in the area of learning science, with new insights emerging regularly on how humans learn. That has academic honor committees scrambling to revise policies and provide resources to instructors.

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Instructors Lecturing Attention Essay 139

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

But I somehow missed that he published a new, different kind of book in 2021 — “ The Anthropocene Reviewed ,” a collection of personal, contemplative, funny and deeply human essays. The essays start off sardonically but become increasingly earnest and reflective. I give “The Anthropocene Reviewed” five stars. Read more from Emily here.

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Reading Essay Instructors Culture 147

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice? Redesigning academic integrity statements is essential. It might be tempting to turn to low-tech options for assessments, such as oral exams and handwritten essays, as a way to prevent cheating with AI.

Academic Integrity 98

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? Redesigning academic integrity statements is essential. It might be tempting to turn to low-tech options for assessments, such as oral exams and handwritten essays, as a way to prevent cheating with AI.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In a comparison of student English essays by NS and NNS of French origin, Granger and Tyson (1996) found that NNS were far less likely to use a term such as “instead” in their writing. Ma and Wang (2016) compared essays written in English by British and American students to essays written in English by Cantonese students.

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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.

Faculty Development 88

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 88

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In a comparison of student English essays by NS and NNS of French origin, Granger and Tyson (1996) found that NNS were far less likely to use a term such as “instead” in their writing. Ma and Wang (2016) compared essays written in English by British and American students to essays written in English by Cantonese students.

Essay 111

Essay English Lecturing Writing 111

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

MARCH 10, 2024

Science fiction plots involving robots fall tidily into one of two scenarios: androids are here to assist and ease human labor, and its doomsday opposite that robots will be our ruin and lead to the destruction of human civilization as we know it. Clearly, science fiction robots are so much more than machines.

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Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 116

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Science fiction plots involving robots fall tidily into one of two scenarios: androids are here to assist and ease human labor, and its doomsday opposite that robots will be our ruin and lead to the destruction of human civilization as we know it. Clearly, science fiction robots are so much more than machines.

Plagiarism 111

Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 111

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

Additionally, stories about companies and nonprofits trying to innovate within higher ed attracted a lot of attention, as did several articles about learning science and new teaching practices. The story was part of a series on learning engineering and learning science. Thanks for reading, and happy new year. Top 10 Countdown 10.

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Education Essay Academic Integrity Attention 167

eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2025

Example prompt: “Give constructive, strengths-based feedback on a 9th grade argumentative essay about climate change, using the NYS ELA rubric.” Teaching them how to write effective prompts develops their metacognition, digital citizenship, and academic integrity.

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Ethics Teachers Essay Feedback 224