eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

While some educators worry that technology and artificial intelligence (AI) might have a negative effect in these areas, many see the positive impact of AI on students’ ability to learn in their preferred languages, improved grades and career readiness.

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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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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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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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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 30, 2024

This technology will transform education by personalizing learning and meeting various student demands. Understanding AI in Academic Writing AI in academic writing is changing how students write essays. Drafts are produced faster, giving students more time for other academic or extracurricular activities.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Empathy seems to be a theme at this Educause,” said Ken Graetz, director of teaching, learning and technology services at Winona State University. Another was Ruha Benjamin, a Princeton professor of African American studies who gave a speech about how racism can seep into and be shaped by education technology and other tools.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

Oftentimes, when it comes to technology and new innovations, folks move to a “good” or “bad” binary. 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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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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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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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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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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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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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

We talk with one of those experts, plus others who are seeking to build guardrails to help educators successfully adapt to the latest AI technology. That has academic honor committees scrambling to revise policies and provide resources to instructors.

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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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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, new AI chatbots have made their debut, including Google’s Bard and ChatGPT for Microsoft Bing, and new generative AI tools that use GPT technology have emerged, such as Chat with any PDF. Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice?

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, new AI chatbots have made their debut, including Google’s Bard and ChatGPT for Microsoft Bing, and new generative AI tools that use GPT technology have emerged, such as Chat with any PDF. Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice?

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 98

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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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Like some educators, I spend way too much time thinking about ChatGPT and other language model-based chatbots, trying to figure out what they mean for students, faculty, and instructional technology geeks like me. There are many, many potential uses for this language-based technology, but they are beyond the scope of this article.

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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

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 Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Like some educators, I spend way too much time thinking about ChatGPT and other language model-based chatbots, trying to figure out what they mean for students, faculty, and instructional technology geeks like me. There are many, many potential uses for this language-based technology, but they are beyond the scope of this article.

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Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 119

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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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. Advances in technology are inevitable. For large classrooms, technology is a powerful enabler, especially for those who may be less inclined to speak up.

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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 Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

They face pressures in their research, service, and increasingly in their teaching that the pandemic has made almost unbearable, and there seems to be no end in sight when it comes to the new tools, technologies, tips, and programs that faculty developers are rolling out to “support” their career advancement. This is the humdinger.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Teaching with Technology: Empower and Encourage, Don’t Police and Instill Fear Technology tools like plagiarism detectors and AI checkers can erode trust if used as punitive measures. Teaching at its best: A research-based resource for college instructors. Instead, these tools should guide and empower students. Nilson, L.

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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. Advances in technology are inevitable. For large classrooms, technology is a powerful enabler, especially for those who may be less inclined to speak up.

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Minute Papers Instructors Students Assignments 119

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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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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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

They face pressures in their research, service, and increasingly in their teaching that the pandemic has made almost unbearable, and there seems to be no end in sight when it comes to the new tools, technologies, tips, and programs that faculty developers are rolling out to “support” their career advancement. This is the humdinger.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Teaching with Technology: Empower and Encourage, Don’t Police and Instill Fear Technology tools like plagiarism detectors and AI checkers can erode trust if used as punitive measures. Teaching at its best: A research-based resource for college instructors. Instead, these tools should guide and empower students. Nilson, L.

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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). and Wang, B.

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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). and Wang, B.

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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.”

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

There are issues of academic integrity and plagiarism for users (like students) who may offload their work to the tool. 1 Also, entering private or proprietary data into the GenAI tool may invertedly compromise the integrity of that data, breaching privacy and data security. Then, paste your customized prompt into a GenAI tool.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

There are issues of academic integrity and plagiarism for users (like students) who may offload their work to the tool. 1 Also, entering private or proprietary data into the GenAI tool may invertedly compromise the integrity of that data, breaching privacy and data security. Then, paste your customized prompt into a GenAI tool.

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