Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

Would you let your students submit a paper where 5% of the text was written by ChatGPT? 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. Or, if they cited ChatGPT as a source?

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 98

eSchool News

JULY 25, 2023

Patti West-Smith, Turnitin senior director of customer engagement and a long-time classroom teacher and administrator said, “Turnitin has been a supporter of academic integrity for 25 years and we are continuing that commitment with our new AI writing detection feature.

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Academic Integrity Writing Fairness Learning Outcomes 244

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 9, 2020

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor Serhii Tkachecnko, CEO at Unicheck, shares his thoughts on how educators can teach students about the benefits of plagiarism checking. Students experience an array of emotions toward education: from excitement to boredom. But when it comes to plagiarism checking, most students feel hostile.

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Plagiarism Academic Integrity Students Assignments 156

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2025

Yet, some educators still see AI only as a tool for efficiency and view student use as cheating. This moment demands more than efficiency gains and academic integrity policies; it requires rethinking our educational model. The same is true when considering which technology tools to use with students.

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Education Academic Integrity Learning Fairness 139

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Chatbots are increasingly common in customer service, healthcare, and education; however, in education, chatbots have been used to generate false or misleading information called “hallucinations” and create fake students. Community college chatbots need to understand a wide range of academic subjects, courses, and student queries.

Academic Integrity 135

Academic Integrity Education Plagiarism Students 135

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The most controversial new tech tool for colleges since the start of the pandemic is automated proctoring, which aims to detect cheating on online exams by using algorithms that watch students via their webcam and look for suspicious patterns of behavior—often sending clips of questionable moments to professors for later review.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

The few years of operating in a pandemic saw higher education institutions heightening their efforts in online proctoring, ensuring academic integrity, and earnest longing for “things to return to normal.” What if my students decide to use this app? It has become a game changer in classroom assessment.

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Education Academic Integrity Fairness Exams 116

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Chatbots are increasingly common in customer service, healthcare, and education; however, in education, chatbots have been used to generate false or misleading information called “hallucinations” and create fake students. Community college chatbots need to understand a wide range of academic subjects, courses, and student queries.

Academic Integrity 111

Academic Integrity Education Plagiarism Students 111

Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2024

colleges partnering with them and about a quarter of students in fully online 4-year programs enrolled in them. OPMs, I worried, would undermine academic integrity in digital education. Our faculty were doing all the work, and 2U was receiving more than its fair share, pocketing more than half of tuition revenue.”

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Education Academic Integrity Fairness Online Learning 182

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

The few years of operating in a pandemic saw higher education institutions heightening their efforts in online proctoring, ensuring academic integrity, and earnest longing for “things to return to normal.” What if my students decide to use this app? It has become a game changer in classroom assessment.

Education 98

Education Academic Integrity Fairness Exams 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 26, 2024

As educators, let’s (re)imagine ways that AI can support rich learning experiences where we consider ways to prepare students as we look forward to the future. Using AI to create tailored learning In a not-too-distant-past, math teachers complained that calculators would make students worse at basic arithmetic.

Plagiarism 134

Plagiarism Ethics Education Intelligence 134

EAB

DECEMBER 18, 2023

10 ChatGPT starter prompts to leverage AI for admissions tasks Priority 2: Nail down your policy on applicant use of AI To the extent that AI has been a hot topic on college campuses, it has mostly been due to concerns over academic integrity. An important piece of context in this regard is that students place a lot of stock in AI.

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Essay Attention Internet Questions 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

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

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Exams Essay Instructors Education 216