eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2025

This edition, which surveyed over 3,000 higher-ed students and instructors and over 1,000 K-12 teachers and administrators, found similarities among higher-ed instructors and K-12 teachers optimism for GenAI specifically.

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Instructors Textbooks Academic Integrity Coaching 296

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

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. Tell your students what YOU allow Every college and university has an academic integrity/honesty or academic dishonesty statement.

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Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 98

eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

On AI in the classroom, educators said they are most concerned that it will negatively impact students’ social skills, critical thinking, academic integrity, creativity, and memory retention. K-12 educators are consistently more likely than higher education instructors to say their school lacks adequate funding for technology.

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Critical Thinking Students 294

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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Academic Integrity Instructors Ethics Students 185

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.

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Exams Academic Integrity Plagiarism Assignments 218

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.

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Academic Integrity Education Instructors Assignments 202

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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Writing Essay Ethics Plagiarism 187

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In research and surveys conducted by Dr. Donald McCabe and the International Center for Academic Integrity over the span of 12 years, 68 percent of undergraduates who responded admitted to cheating on tests or written assignments. They can’t say after-the-fact ‘Oh, well, I didn’t know that was an academic integrity violation.’”

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Academic Integrity Exams Assignments Instructors 148

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.

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Plagiarism Essay Instructors Intelligence 218

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Leaders at college teaching and learning centers are trying to resolve what one called the “great proctoring debate” by encouraging professors to move away from high-stakes tests, but even though many instructors seem newly willing to try alternative approaches, that sometimes requires more time and energy than they have these days.

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Exams Academic Integrity Testing Instructors 213

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 144

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 144

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As college classes start up this fall, instructors are handing out syllabi and pointing students to official platforms for turning in assignments and participating in class discussions. But others worry that they can lead to violations of academic integrity.

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Exams Instructors Students Lecturing 201

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

And others have worked to protect academic integrity without using proctoring tools. She stresses that most students are honest, but that the instructors still want to make the process as fair as possible. Carpenter agrees. There’s a mindset of some faculty who think that the default is that students want to cheat,” she says.

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Exams Lecturing Instructors Testing 183

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

Academic integrity watchdogs also point out that a dismissal of cheating charges does not mean no misconduct occurred, only that it wasn’t proven. Still, the unease about inaccurate accusations gives instructors and administrators pause around AI writing detection. And the promised accuracy set it apart from previous detectors.

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Plagiarism Academic Integrity Intelligence Instructors 119

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.

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Ethics Essay Teachers Academic Integrity 148

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.

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Instructors Academic Integrity Students Ethics 111

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.

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Instructors Academic Integrity Students Ethics 105

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

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. That has academic honor committees scrambling to revise policies and provide resources to instructors.

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Instructors Lecturing Attention Essay 138

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 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 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. Redesigning academic integrity statements is essential. AI chatbots have elevated the importance of academic integrity.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

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 111

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 111

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?

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 91

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

PowerNotes built Composer in response to feedback from educators who wanted a word processor that could protect academic integrity as AI is being integrated into existing Microsoft and Google products.

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Writing Ethics Plagiarism Academic Integrity 161

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

Educators at both schools and colleges were already struggling to keep up with ChatGPT and other AI tools during this academic year, but a fresh round of announcements last month by major AI companies may require even greater adjustments by educators to preserve academic integrity and to accurately assess student learning, teaching experts say.

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Lecturing Education Assignments Syllabus 215

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?

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 86

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2023

I am not an academic librarian. However, as a former instructor of online courses, I have seen first-hand the power of introducing a librarian to a group of online students and how such exposure can lead to curiosity on a topic and deepen student learning. I begin with a caveat. In fact, I have never worked in a library.

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Syllabus Instructors Learning Assignments 98

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In addition, you could contact your institution’s LMS administrator and ask them to create a course for faculty to house links, tips for talking to students about AI and academic integrity, and other resources. Some instructors are frustrated and tired of talking to students about it. Like Faye L.

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Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 124

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In addition, you could contact your institution’s LMS administrator and ask them to create a course for faculty to house links, tips for talking to students about AI and academic integrity, and other resources. Some instructors are frustrated and tired of talking to students about it. Like Faye L.

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Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 119

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

A new way to write their course policy on academic integrity or late assignments. For so many instructors, whether they’re a TA, someone just starting out, or a seasoned professor with decades of experience, the answer is, “no.” Language for the disability statement in their syllabus. This is the humdinger.

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Teaching Syllabus Instructors Disabilities 122

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

There will be NO change in the assignment process for course instructors as a part of this agreement. While Academic Partnerships does offer grading and other teaching assistance services that can be tapped if desired, these are supports in addition to assigned instructors. They are NOT replacements.

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Teaching Assistants Instructors Coaching Counselling 117

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. Nilson, L.

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Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 122

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

That’s enough to give most instructors pause and has set off a flurry of activity in reimagining how we assess learning in order to reduce the risk of student cheating. Or how they might feel if their instructor used ChatGPT to provide feedback on their assignments?

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Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 134

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

As instructors and students press pause for winter break, journalists at EdSurge are likewise taking some time away from writing and editing during the last week of 2023. Manly’s a college instructor, educational consultant and former computer science teacher.

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Reading Essay Instructors Culture 143

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

A new way to write their course policy on academic integrity or late assignments. For so many instructors, whether they’re a TA, someone just starting out, or a seasoned professor with decades of experience, the answer is, “no.” Language for the disability statement in their syllabus. This is the humdinger.

Teaching 98

Teaching Syllabus Instructors Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 10, 2023

That’s enough to give most instructors pause and has set off a flurry of activity in reimagining how we assess learning in order to reduce the risk of student cheating. Or how they might feel if their instructor used ChatGPT to provide feedback on their assignments?

Minute Papers 119

Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 119

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. Nilson, L.

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

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).

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Essay English Lecturing Writing 126