Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

These automated programs are being used for various reasons, ranging from gaining access to popular classes to scamming institutions out of money. These include over-reliance, plagiarism, bias, limited creativity, ethical considerations, accessibility issues, oversimplification, distraction, and dehumanization of the learning experience.

Academic Integrity 111

Academic Integrity Education Plagiarism Students 111

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

Just as professors wouldn’t bring in a teaching assistant they couldn’t talk to or collaborate with, they shouldn’t adopt interactive tools that are mysterious and locked. And they came to Carnegie Mellon looking for other schools that would be interested in putting all of their course materials online—to drive that open access.

Teaching 96

Teaching Ethics Textbooks Laboratory 96

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This is essential not just for smooth operations but also for guaranteeing all students have equal access. Moreover, with the surge of technology, ensuring that every student, regardless of their socioeconomic background, has equal access to AI-powered education becomes an imperative.

Intelligence 110

Intelligence Ethics Feedback Assignments 110

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 24, 2023

As with any emerging technology, it would be wise for educators to not only coexist with this innovation but also consider integrating it into their teaching methods. Areas to consider are teaching students how to use these tools, not only for their time-saving benefits, but also for addressing ethical concerns associated with plagiarism.

Intelligence 98

Intelligence Critical Thinking Academic Integrity Peer Review 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 24, 2023

As with any emerging technology, it would be wise for educators to not only coexist with this innovation but also consider integrating it into their teaching methods. Areas to consider are teaching students how to use these tools, not only for their time-saving benefits, but also for addressing ethical concerns associated with plagiarism.

Intelligence 97

Intelligence Critical Thinking Academic Integrity Peer Review 97

Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2023

After two years of researching resiliency expectations in higher education, we are calling on members of the academic community to prioritize processing our grief, while we reflect on and draw strength from our own “pandemic narratives” with an ethic of care in mind. Accessed March 6, 2023. Translated from the French by Ben Brewster.

Faculty Development 111

Faculty Development Coaching Essay Ethics 111

Whiteboard Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

School leaders must establish a robust AI policy that governs the ethical and practical use of this technology. Ethical Considerations Bias and Fairness : AI systems can inadvertently perpetuate biases present in their training data. An example is the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) in the U.S.,

Writing 52

Writing Ethics Schools Intelligence 52

Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2023

After two years of researching resiliency expectations in higher education, we are calling on members of the academic community to prioritize processing our grief, while we reflect on and draw strength from our own “pandemic narratives” with an ethic of care in mind. Accessed March 6, 2023. Translated from the French by Ben Brewster.

Faculty Development 94

Faculty Development Coaching Essay Ethics 94

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Kyle Bowen: It is important for institutions to begin to develop these kinds of capabilities, and a lot of that starts with creating an ecosystem for data at your university—being able to access these data, understand where it’s coming from and what the actual data elements mean. Above all, I do think there’s this ethic of Do No Harm.

Learning 89

Learning Intelligence Science Questions 89

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

The professor of computer science and cognitive science at Georgia Institute of Technology believes every student and researcher should have access to artificially intelligent assistants that not only help them study facts and figures, but also collaborate more closely with other humans. We want education to be accessible.

Mental Models 186

Mental Models Education Ethics Learning 186

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

I'm the world's first android teaching assistant. So she relies on support from William Barry, the philosophy instructor who records her delivering brief lectures for his undergraduate class on the ethics of emerging technology. Maria Bot can only access a pre-approved sliver of the Internet. “Are you having a good day?”

Teachers 155

Teachers Education Instructors Intelligence 155