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Easy to find, not always true: Helping students evaluate AI-generated content

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Teachers havent stopped assigning projects on wolves, genetic engineering, drug abuse, or the Harlem Renaissance, but the way students approach those assignments has changed dramatically. A deep search tool might include academic preprints from 2024, but not peer-reviewed journal articles published yesterday.

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How to combat misuse of AI in student writing

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It takes only seconds to plug a writing prompt into a generative AI tool and receive a completed assignment. The bottom line: When students are confident in their writing skills, they will be less tempted to run directly to AI to generate a writing assignment. It’s important to make the writing process less intimidating.

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What Can College Instructors Offer Their Students in the Age of AI? 

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Balch & Blanck, 2025; Butulis, 2023; Parks & Oslick, 2024) and to provide their students with instruction and practice in using AI in productive and ethical ways (e.g., In higher education, we see our students use AI in many ways, to provide both authorized and unauthorized aid in their completion of assignments. Saucier, Ph.D.

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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

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Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010).

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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

Faculty Focus

Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010).

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What Can College Instructors Offer Their Students in the Age of AI? 

Faculty Focus

Balch & Blanck, 2025; Butulis, 2023; Parks & Oslick, 2024) and to provide their students with instruction and practice in using AI in productive and ethical ways (e.g., In higher education, we see our students use AI in many ways, to provide both authorized and unauthorized aid in their completion of assignments. Saucier, Ph.D.

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How an OER Rookie Dove Deep Into a Zero-Cost Textbook Degree Program

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Reviews for relevancy and accurateness “went beyond the community college in that sense,” the instructor says. While much of the peer-review process felt similar to the editing process she experienced at Houghton Mifflin, Anagnoson couldn’t recall any of the large textbooks she worked on for the company being passed on to industry.

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