Academic Integrity, Ethics and Instructors

A taxonomy for using AI in education

eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

Educators and institutions are grappling with how best to integrate these tools into the learning environment while balancing innovation with ethical considerations, assessment concerns, and instructor comfort. Schools or instructors adopting this stance may wish to emphasize traditional methods of learning and assessment.

Ethics

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AI Has Changed Student Cheating. But Strategies to Stop It Remain Consistent.

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2025

Thats the argument of Tricia Bertram Gallant, a longtime expert in academic integrity who is director of the Academic Integrity Office at the University of California San Diego. Remembering that most students arent looking to be cheaters can take down the temperature so that instructors dont get so worked up about it.

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Online Cheating Isn’t Going Away. Use It as a Teachable Moment for Students and Educators

Edsurge

JULY 27, 2020

Maintaining academic integrity is important, but eradicating cheating is near impossible with how quickly technology moves, said Tricia Bertram Gallant, academic integrity director at the University of California, San Diego, and board emeritus at the International Center for Academic Integrity.

Exams

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AI and Writing Essays: Pros and Cons, How Will Students Learn to Write if an AI Writes It for Them?

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 30, 2024

Academic Integrity Issues Writing with AI raises complicated academic integrity problems. Educational institutions must have AI policies for scholarly writing to teach students the value of academic integrity.

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To Understand ChatGPT’s Impact on Higher Education, Think Like a Scientist

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.

Academic Integrity

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What Higher Ed Gets Wrong About AI Chatbots — From the Student Perspective

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

Towards the end of their email message, there was some clarifying information regarding the role of the professor: “Individual instructors have the authority to establish course policies for the use of ChatGPT and other AI tools. That instructor, Kyle Ali, took two key steps in his “Diversity in a Global Economy” course.

Plagiarism

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PowerNotes Launches Composer, an AI-Enriched, Semi-Proctored Writing Tool

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Developing the skills to use these tools ethically is an essential part of digital literacy that will carry forward to help them succeed in school and in life.” Composer enables users to minimize the inappropriate use of AI and gain greater clarity into research and writing work, supporting them in using AI with integrity and effectiveness.

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Hoping to Get More of Their Teachers to Try AI, Students Organize a National Conference

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2023

And the fast-changing tech has now inspired students to spend part of their summer volunteering to make sure their instructors try AI for themselves and not simply throw up their hands in fear that students will use chatbots to cheat. I think many faculty have not sorted out what academic integrity is with this tech,” Dede said.

Ethics

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Embracing Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom

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. Instructors can use AI for editing as well.

Intelligence

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity

Lessons from the FBI: Students and Cheating

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2024

Given suspicions that a student has cheated in a course, one of the most common recommendations is that an instructor meets with the student to discuss those suspicions. For the instructor, leveling accusations, even in the presence of stone-cold certainty, is almost equally unpleasant. No one wants this meeting.

Instructors

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Top 10 EdSurge Podcast Episodes of 2023

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.) Hoping to Regain Attention of Students, Professors Pay More Attention to Them Getting and holding the attention of students is more difficult since the pandemic, according to many college instructors around the country.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Faculty developers and instructors can use this framework to harness AI’s potential, ensuring it supports rather than supplants their pedagogical roles. For instructors serving diverse, often underserved populations, AI raises critical questions: How has it evolved into a pedagogical tool? What are its merits and limitations?

Faculty Development

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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Hutson (2024) identifies the challenges of AI in education as the blurred boundaries between human and AI-generated content, the inadequacy of traditional plagiarism definitions, and the need to balance the ethical integration of AI with the preservation of critical thinking, originality, and intellectual property standards.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback

Lessons from the FBI: Students and Cheating

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2024

Given suspicions that a student has cheated in a course, one of the most common recommendations is that an instructor meets with the student to discuss those suspicions. For the instructor, leveling accusations, even in the presence of stone-cold certainty, is almost equally unpleasant. No one wants this meeting.

Instructors

Instructors Academic Integrity Students Ethics

AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Faculty developers and instructors can use this framework to harness AI’s potential, ensuring it supports rather than supplants their pedagogical roles. For instructors serving diverse, often underserved populations, AI raises critical questions: How has it evolved into a pedagogical tool? What are its merits and limitations?

Faculty Development

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity

Embracing Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom

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. Instructors can use AI for editing as well.

Intelligence

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity

Essential Considerations for Addressing the Possibility of AI-Driven Cheating, Part 1

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. Redesigning academic integrity statements is essential. AI chatbots have elevated the importance of academic integrity.

Academic Integrity

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus

Essential Considerations for Addressing the Possibility of AI-Driven Cheating, Part 1

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. Redesigning academic integrity statements is essential. AI chatbots have elevated the importance of academic integrity.

Academic Integrity

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus

Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Hutson (2024) identifies the challenges of AI in education as the blurred boundaries between human and AI-generated content, the inadequacy of traditional plagiarism definitions, and the need to balance the ethical integration of AI with the preservation of critical thinking, originality, and intellectual property standards.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback

Human or AI? Connectives Hold the Clues

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

While companies such as GPTZero have responded to academic concerns by creating software designed to detect the use of AI in written work, false positives and underconfidence in the software’s assessment leaves instructors without an actionable means to promote integrity in coursework (Chaka, 2023).

Essay

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Human or AI? Connectives Hold the Clues

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

While companies such as GPTZero have responded to academic concerns by creating software designed to detect the use of AI in written work, false positives and underconfidence in the software’s assessment leaves instructors without an actionable means to promote integrity in coursework (Chaka, 2023).

Essay

Essay English Lecturing Writing

Cheating on Chegg? Maybe Not on Its Tutoring Platform

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

So to flag such ethically dubious requests, the company uses machine learning. As The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2016, there are plenty of websites online where students can pay someone else to complete academic work—and it can be difficult for colleges to find out.

Essay

Essay Ethics Exams Academic Integrity

7 missteps university leaders must avoid in their AI approach

EAB

JUNE 8, 2023

Thinking we can distinguish between AI-generated and human-generated work Concerned about academic integrity, many academic colleges have turned to plagiarism detection services in student assignments. For instructors, this means devising assignments that incorporate AI but push beyond its limits.

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A taxonomy for using AI in education

AI Has Changed Student Cheating. But Strategies to Stop It Remain Consistent.

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Online Cheating Isn’t Going Away. Use It as a Teachable Moment for Students and Educators

AI and Writing Essays: Pros and Cons, How Will Students Learn to Write if an AI Writes It for Them?

To Understand ChatGPT’s Impact on Higher Education, Think Like a Scientist

What Higher Ed Gets Wrong About AI Chatbots — From the Student Perspective

PowerNotes Launches Composer, an AI-Enriched, Semi-Proctored Writing Tool

Hoping to Get More of Their Teachers to Try AI, Students Organize a National Conference

Embracing Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom

Lessons from the FBI: Students and Cheating

Top 10 EdSurge Podcast Episodes of 2023

AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

Lessons from the FBI: Students and Cheating

AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Embracing Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom

Essential Considerations for Addressing the Possibility of AI-Driven Cheating, Part 1

Essential Considerations for Addressing the Possibility of AI-Driven Cheating, Part 1

Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

Human or AI? Connectives Hold the Clues

Human or AI? Connectives Hold the Clues

Cheating on Chegg? Maybe Not on Its Tutoring Platform

7 missteps university leaders must avoid in their AI approach

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