eSchool News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

By Carl Hooker One of the biggest misconceptions about AI in education is that it will encourage students to cheat and cause academic integrity concerns. Educators find it socially acceptable for a student to hire a tutor to help them write their college admission essay. Did students cheat before AI was around? ABSOLUTELY.

Fairness

Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

The most prominent concern is the impact on academic integrity. Issues like plagiarism, cheating (on tests or in admission scandals), and integrity have been the center of ethical conversations for many years. Mayo is director of Academic Integrity at Quinnipiac University. Will technology induce cheating?

Academic Integrity

Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

The most prominent concern is the impact on academic integrity. Issues like plagiarism, cheating (on tests or in admission scandals), and integrity have been the center of ethical conversations for many years. Mayo is director of Academic Integrity at Quinnipiac University. Will technology induce cheating?

Academic Integrity

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.

Essay

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.

Academic Integrity

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.

Essay

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.

Achievement

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

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

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.

Reading

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.

Instructors

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

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

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

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

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

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

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”).

Exams

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.

Education

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.

Ethics