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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Writing Ethics Plagiarism Academic Integrity 164

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.

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Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 111

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

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 88

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. Ultimately, the “effective use of ChatGPT is becoming a highly valued skill, impacting workforce demands” (Canales, 2023, para.

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 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. Ultimately, the “effective use of ChatGPT is becoming a highly valued skill, impacting workforce demands” (Canales, 2023, para.

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 98

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

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

It represents a de-skilling of the teaching profession.” University leaders say that no online programs are being created without faculty approval and oversight, and that Academic Partnerships is focused on helping market existing online programs. There’s been a perception that Academic Partnerships has dictated some things,” he added.

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Teaching Assistants Instructors Coaching Counselling 120

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 75

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Trusting students does not mean ignoring accountability; it means designing courses, policies, and practices that build their confidence and skills while treating them as equal partners in their education. Instead, focus on feedback that builds skills, enriches learning, and deepens understanding. Nilson, L. John Wiley & Sons.

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Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 116

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. You might ask what skills or knowledge students believe are critical in the age of AI? Single word responses can be turned into a word cloud to spur discussion.

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Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 134

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. You might ask what skills or knowledge students believe are critical in the age of AI? Single word responses can be turned into a word cloud to spur discussion.

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Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 119

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Trusting students does not mean ignoring accountability; it means designing courses, policies, and practices that build their confidence and skills while treating them as equal partners in their education. Instead, focus on feedback that builds skills, enriches learning, and deepens understanding. Nilson, L. John Wiley & Sons.

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

The open access nature of community colleges and the varying levels of academic preparedness of their students require programs and courses that provide remediation and support in foundational skills for nearly two- thirds of students (Chen et al., 2016) and enhance their communication skills (Goff & Lahme, 2003).

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Learning Instructors Math STEM 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

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 111

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

A case study is a short story followed by (or interspersed with) guiding questions that put students in the shoes of a key player in the narrative so they can practice the skills of thinking in that discipline. I am a scientist, so for me, cases are tools to help learners practice the skill of thinking like a scientist.

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Study Writing Evaluation Instructors 123

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

A case study is a short story followed by (or interspersed with) guiding questions that put students in the shoes of a key player in the narrative so they can practice the skills of thinking in that discipline. I am a scientist, so for me, cases are tools to help learners practice the skill of thinking like a scientist.

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Study Writing Evaluation Instructors 109

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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Plagiarism Instructors Evaluation Academic Integrity 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I think where the future is going is, it's going to become even more important for students to be able to have those soft skills and be able to talk and communicate their ideas." To use Sherpa, an instructor first uploads the reading they’ve assigned, or they can have the student upload a paper they’ve written.

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Exams Essay Instructors Education 215