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

Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

The most prominent concern is the impact on academic integrity. Yale University’s policy explicitly claims that “one who borrows unacknowledged ideas or language from others is stealing their work.” In this posthuman turn, the potential of theft goes beyond human students stealing from human others.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

The most prominent concern is the impact on academic integrity. Yale University’s policy explicitly claims that “one who borrows unacknowledged ideas or language from others is stealing their work.” In this posthuman turn, the potential of theft goes beyond human students stealing from human others.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98

eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2023

Together, these new enhancements drive deeper student engagement and offer even greater support to educators. Featuring short videos in English and Spanish that are paired with ready-to-use instructional activities, this exciting new content brings compelling natural science phenomena alive for students.   Randomized questions.

Student Engagement 243

Student Engagement Education Social Studies Art 243

eSchool News

JULY 27, 2023

No wonder: This language model algorithm is smart enough to produce logical and grammatically correct texts for any prompt. Today’s digital-savvy students welcomed ChatGPT with open arms and began using it for writing assignments. The issue here is not only about the academic integrity violation.

Writing 246

Writing Skills Plagiarism Teaching 246

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 30, 2024

Explore the benefits and drawbacks of AI in essay writing, including its impact on student learning. AI and Writing Essays: Pros and Cons, How Will Students Learn to Write if an AI Writes It for Them? In the fast-changing digital world, integrating AI into education is both a breakthrough and a problem.

Writing 187

Writing Essay Ethics Plagiarism 187

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. videos integrated into digital content) (30 percent), narrative content (e.g.,

Instructors 291

Instructors Textbooks Academic Integrity Coaching 291

eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2023

“Our clients are looking to us for solutions to detect AI-generated content fraudulently submitted by their students and learners. Adding Copyleaks to our portfolio is among the first steps we’re taking to help our clients mitigate some of AI’s challenges to academic integrity.”

Plagiarism 235

Plagiarism eLearning Languages Language 235

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

On a quiet morning in Ottawas Rockcliffe Park, more than a century ago, a woman named Theodora Philpot opened her home to four young students. Following World War II, Elmwood broadened its academic horizons beyond the humanities, and by the early 2000s, its student body had grown from 130 to over 300. Its lively. Its hands-on.

Schools 222

Schools Culture Interdisciplinary Art 222

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2024

As teachers and professors look for ways to guard against the use of AI to cheat on homework, many have started asking students to share the history of their online documents to check for signs that a bot did the writing. Can process tracking turn out to be the answer to checking student work for authenticity?

Instructors 205

Instructors History English Writing 205

eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2024

From interactive simulations to online databases of primary sources, these tools offer educators a wide array of resources to enrich their curriculum and foster student learning.

Social Studies 292

Social Studies Study Ethics Intelligence 292

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2020

It’s easier than ever for college students to find someone else to do their work for them—for a fee. In fact, such “contract cheaters” are increasingly seeking out students who aren’t even looking for these services. And join us on Tuesday, January 28, for a live online discussion about the issue as part of our EdSurge Live series.

Essay 171

Essay Writing Academic Integrity Students 171

eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Through its artificial intelligence and machine learning technology, Copyleaks is able to understand and learn more about the text that students are writing throughout the school year. The platform allows both teachers and students to improve their writing processes. Copyleaks provides a full.

Plagiarism 198

Plagiarism Intelligence Essay Academic Integrity 198

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 2, 2023

Since the release of ChatGPT nearly a year ago, teachers have debated whether to ban the tool (over fears that students will use it to cheat ) or embrace it as a teaching aid (arguing that the tool could boost learning and will become key in the workplace). That means most students in U.S. EdSurge reached out to OpenAI for comment.

Academic Integrity 195

Academic Integrity Assignments Essay Schools 195

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Creating a trust-based classroom begins with an essential mindset: students are doing their best. When we approach teaching from this perspective, we move away from punitive measures, fear-based management, and skepticism about students honesty. Students should feel safe to experiment without fear of punishment or penalty.

Plagiarism 123

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 123

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2023

But one national event for teachers this month had a very unusual trait: It was started and organized by students. The students worked with no external funding, though Zoom donated use of its platform. The students worked with no external funding, though Zoom donated use of its platform. And educators showed up in force.

Ethics 148

Ethics Essay Teachers Academic Integrity 148

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

By fostering self-awareness and self-regulation, metacognitive strategies empower students to monitor their learning processes, set achievable goals, and adapt their approaches to overcome linguistic and academic challenges. The challenges of supporting ELLs across content areas Teaching ELLs presents unique challenges.

Essay 166

Essay Ethics Feedback Languages 166

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. Guilty or innocent, no student wants to be accused of cheating. For faculty, the interviewee would be the student. No one wants this meeting.

Instructors 111

Instructors Academic Integrity Students Ethics 111

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2017

But Mayfield’s true passion is language—particularly writing. Mayfield spent his grad school years studying natural language processing, computational linguistics, and machine learning. He also spent time consulting for high profile companies like CTB McGraw-Hill and College Board, which wanted to learn more about student writing.

Achievement 165

Achievement Writing Essay Languages 165

eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The toolkit provides a framework for incorporating AI in education, real-world policy examples, sample guidance language, and resources aimed at staff, parents, and students. “By providing real-world examples and sample language, we hope education systems now have a place to start their discussions.”

Teachers 217

Teachers Schools Intelligence Academic Integrity 217

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

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. Guilty or innocent, no student wants to be accused of cheating. For faculty, the interviewee would be the student. No one wants this meeting.

Instructors 105

Instructors Academic Integrity Students Ethics 105

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Creating a trust-based classroom begins with an essential mindset: students are doing their best. When we approach teaching from this perspective, we move away from punitive measures, fear-based management, and skepticism about students honesty. Students should feel safe to experiment without fear of punishment or penalty.

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

The launch of the artificial intelligence (AI) large language model ChatGPT was met with both enthusiasm (“Wow! With increasing access to different types of AI chatbots, and increasing advances in AI technology, “preventing student cheating via AI” has risen to the top of the list of faculty concerns for 2023 (Lucariello, 2023).

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

The launch of the artificial intelligence (AI) large language model ChatGPT was met with both enthusiasm (“Wow! With increasing access to different types of AI chatbots, and increasing advances in AI technology, “preventing student cheating via AI” has risen to the top of the list of faculty concerns for 2023 (Lucariello, 2023).

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

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.

Exams 190

Exams Lecturing Instructors Testing 190

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Were they merely handy summaries that students used to review before a test? Did teachers know that students were reading them? On the other hand, teachers and parents complained that the guides enabled students to skip reading the originals. Expand the conversation to include academic support and tutoring centers.

Syllabus 124

Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 124

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

As I scanned topics like academic integrity, academic dishonesty, and plagiarism, I quickly adopted others’ persuasive opinions based on limited information. Students were already using it as a tool, so I opened my mind to understanding what purpose AI served in the higher education classroom.

Intelligence 144

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 144

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

William Quarterman, a student at the University of California at Davis, was accused of cheating. His professor said he’d used ChatGPT to take a history exam, the charge buttressed by GPTZero, one of the many new tools that have emerged to try to detect student use of generative AI systems.

Plagiarism 123

Plagiarism Academic Integrity Intelligence Instructors 123

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Were they merely handy summaries that students used to review before a test? Did teachers know that students were reading them? On the other hand, teachers and parents complained that the guides enabled students to skip reading the originals. Expand the conversation to include academic support and tutoring centers.

Syllabus 119

Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 119

Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2018

However, pioneering educators have been thinking more critically about what schools should look like and how we can better cater to the needs of all students while keeping in mind the changing requirements of higher education and a new workforce. By the time they enter Chartwell, many students feel very frustrated and discouraged.

Teaching 142

Teaching Education Learning Culture 142

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

In response to increasingly aggressive marketing tactics by companies that help students cheat, colleges are striking back with new responses of their own. The company’s website was written in Chinese and marketed to students who did not speak English as their first language.

Plagiarism 163

Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Attention 163

Faculty Focus

MAY 2, 2023

With its impressive ability to understand human language, it is clear that ChatGPT can be leveraged in optimizing assessment and evaluation in higher education. For example, in one of my facilitation sessions, student-teachers were to demonstrate competencies in designing high quality scoring rubrics for alternative tasks.

Education 116

Education Academic Integrity Fairness Exams 116

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Another big theme that emerged was a spike in student disengagement. It’s worth a listen if you missed it, with scenes from a visit to a state university where I sat in on several classes to talk to professors and students firsthand about the issue. The episode is part two of a narrative series we did on student disengagement.

Instructors 145

Instructors Lecturing Attention Essay 145

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Proponents of AI claim that AI tools should be integrated into lesson design, however, it is also the case that AI may be used by students as an unethical shortcut to wholly complete written assignments. Independent of software applications, there may be other signals that distinguish independent student work from that of AI.

Essay 126

Essay English Lecturing Writing 126

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

As I scanned topics like academic integrity, academic dishonesty, and plagiarism, I quickly adopted others’ persuasive opinions based on limited information. Students were already using it as a tool, so I opened my mind to understanding what purpose AI served in the higher education classroom.

Intelligence 111

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 111