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

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2024

With the technology itself evolving rapidly, establishing a framework for examining its implications is critical; we need to know what questions to ask, and to continue asking, even as the answers continuously change. 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 204

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

As AI chatbots with a ton of information, like ChatGPT, can provide answers to questions like “I’m arguing XYZ. 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.

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Plagiarism Essay Instructors Intelligence 218

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 203

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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Exams Lecturing Instructors Testing 186

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

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

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

PowerNotes+ is a reading, research, and writing platform that helps educators and institutions have control and confidence using artificial intelligence (AI)—and addresses questions of intellectual integrity using transparency and evidence, not suspicion.

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Writing Ethics Plagiarism Academic Integrity 161

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

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 148

Ethics Essay Teachers Academic Integrity 148

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 Attention Lecturing Essay 138

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 216

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

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The more I learn about ChatGPT and its rivals through attending webinars, talking to colleagues, and toying with this web-based tool, the more questions I have. Flower Darby (2023) recently wrote about the importance of having conversations with faculty and students about AI, academic integrity, AI in the workplace, and other topics.

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Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 124

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The more I learn about ChatGPT and its rivals through attending webinars, talking to colleagues, and toying with this web-based tool, the more questions I have. Flower Darby (2023) recently wrote about the importance of having conversations with faculty and students about AI, academic integrity, AI in the workplace, and other topics.

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Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 119

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? Spitale et al.

Faculty Development 89

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 89

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. To prepare for the discussion, assign readings that provide different perspectives on AI along with comprehension questions for students to complete before class.

Minute Papers 134

Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 134

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

JANUARY 24, 2023

A new way to write their course policy on academic integrity or late assignments. The second question I ask in one form or another is, “Do your students know that this is what you want for them?” Another way of asking the question is, “Do you talk to them about this?” This is the humdinger.

Teaching 122

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 118

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? Spitale et al.

Faculty Development 82

Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 82

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. To prepare for the discussion, assign readings that provide different perspectives on AI along with comprehension questions for students to complete before class.

Minute Papers 119

Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 119

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

A new way to write their course policy on academic integrity or late assignments. The second question I ask in one form or another is, “Do your students know that this is what you want for them?” Another way of asking the question is, “Do you talk to them about this?” This is the humdinger.

Teaching 98

Teaching Syllabus Instructors Disabilities 98

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

Take Stanford University’s honor code policy, which states, in part, that students “will not give or receive aid in examinations,” and “will not give or receive unpermitted aid in class work, in the preparation of reports, or in any other work that is to be used by instructor as the basis of grading.”

Essay 89

Essay Ethics Exams Academic Integrity 89

Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

Learning Assistantships in Community Colleges Learning assistants (LAs) are undergraduate students who engage as classroom support for faculty instructors in college courses (Ellerbrock et al., While the other instructor mostly focused on breaking the subject up in a simplified way. Physical Review Physics Education Research, 12 (1).

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Learning Instructors Math STEM 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

Case studies consist of a short narrative followed by guiding questions that help learners think through the steps of solving a real-world problem. In other words, if you ask the GenAI a question, it will likely give you a different response every time you use it. I am an instructor teaching [biology] in [first year of university].

Study 124

Study Writing Evaluation Instructors 124

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

Case studies consist of a short narrative followed by guiding questions that help learners think through the steps of solving a real-world problem. In other words, if you ask the GenAI a question, it will likely give you a different response every time you use it. I am an instructor teaching [biology] in [first year of university].

Study 113

Study Writing Evaluation Instructors 113

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”). If you’ve got five set questions, are you probing students — are you looking for the weaknesses?”

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Exams Essay Instructors Education 215