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The case for ChatGPT as the ultimate educator’s toolkit

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ChatGPT does have major limitations: its limited knowledge base only pulls from data prior to September 2021; it has no personal experiences or emotions to draw from; it may generate inaccurate information; and it does not have the ability to critically think and/or analyze information.

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How Colleges Can Improve Accessibility In Remote Courses

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Colleges have long had offices designed to support students who have learning disabilities and to encourage broader accessibility in the classroom and beyond. Students who struggle because they have reading disabilities or struggle to read on a computer screen because of blurred vision. For that,] a text-to-speech software saves us.

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What Your Students Aren’t Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy 

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The surveys included over 20 demographic questionscovering areas like housing, food security, disability status, and employmentfollowed by 1540 experience-based questions exploring academic confidence, mental health, study habits, and perceptions of inclusion. These were not standard end-of-semester evaluations.

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How Should Professors Respond When Students Ask for Accommodations?

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There’s still a great deal of stigma around disabilities—learning-related, or otherwise. Bonni Stachoviak There’s still a great deal of stigma around disabilities—learning-related, or otherwise. She is too concerned that as soon as the professor becomes aware of her situation that she will be defined by her disability.

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Five Tips for Writing Academic Integrity Statements in the Age of AI 

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As educators and students grapple with what is allowed when using generative AI (GenAI) tools, I have compiled five tips to help you design or redesign academic integrity statements for your syllabus, assignments, exams, and course activities. Write your own GenAI policy to include in your syllabus. Will you use an AI text detector?

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

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Previously, her syllabus relied on a series of pamphlets from the Water Education Foundation, a California-based non-profit. Some, Anagnoson says, did “not read at a deep level for students,” and others “assumed a lot of prior knowledge.” Water was a great place to apply my knowledge,” she says.

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Essential Considerations for Addressing the Possibility of AI-Driven Cheating, Part 1

Faculty Focus

Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice? 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).