Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

And as someone who is also a former journalist and editor for EdSurge, I recognize that we should never plagiarize, and that artificially-intelligent chatbots are very, very capable of responding to prompts like “Write me a 500-word essay on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.” What might be some responses that disagree with that idea?”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. It’s a fair question given the widespread concern in the field about students using AI to write their essays or bots to do their homework for them. Should they disclose that to students?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2023

Yet fixing group projects isn’t easy, since many instructors tend to repeat the same flawed methods that their own teachers used when they were students. For this week’s EdSurge Podcast, we connected with John Warner, a longtime writing instructor at colleges and a teaching consultant for Eyler Warner & Associates.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Even vocal proponents of HyFlex admit it’s not widely popular among college instructors. He says instructors who felt forced to quickly allow for remote options or teach remotely are now eager to get back to what they consider normal. As one instructor wrote in an essay last year , “everyone lost something in HyFlex courses.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

For years education companies have tried to apply technologies to better understand students and tailor their learning experiences, or support instructors who can intervene when human help is needed. Today the latest buzz revolves around machine learning, which education technologists claim can support more precise tools.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Topping our monthly Top 5 list was a look at how professors are rebooting oral exams to respond to concerns that students can now use ChatGPT and other AI tools to cheat on essays. Also making the list was an essay by a teacher launched into a leadership position at age 26 reflecting on a lack of support during the shift.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2024

When ChatGPT and other new generative AI tools emerged in late 2022, the major concern for educators was cheating. Dan Wolgamott, of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, proposed a bill that would forbid campuses in the Minnestate State College and University System from using AI “as the primary instructor for a credit-bearing course.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2019

This week Educause released the higher education edition of the Horizon Report for 2019 , and for the first time it looked back on how well past reports did at accurately predicting what would be on the horizon. One of those essays is on “gaming and gamification.” Susan Grajek, vice president of communities and research for Educause.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2023

In the early days of online education, I imagined that virtual classrooms would follow the same basic model as in-person ones, with an instructor leading the same number of students typical in a campus class. Students attend WGU entirely on screen, with instructors engaging with them virtually by email, phone, text and video.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I was just worried that my students would use this to write all their essays! I think all educators grew concerned. I was at a crossroads; I didn't want students to use it because I didn't want academic dishonesty, but I also knew this technology would not go away. The instructor was really supportive.

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Khanmigo, powered by ChatGPT technology, includes features meant to help students work through math and science problems, analyze text, chat with historical figures, navigate college admissions, and revise essays, among other features. Reid studies educational technology products and reviews their efficacy in classroom instruction.

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Schools Math Testing Intelligence 267

Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2023

By Rebecca Koenig Online courses offer students increased flexibility—which is another way of saying they shift the burden of creating structure from institutions and instructors to the students themselves. Tapia In a moving personal essay, Ruby C. As Student Engagement Falls, Colleges Wonder: ‘Are We Part of the Problem?’

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Education Exams Instructors Essay 179

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

With all the changes and challenges over the last year, one takeaway I keep reflecting on is how essential education technology has become to learning—and how quickly this transition occurred. I have long believed that edtech has the power to open up opportunities for students and change how educators teach.

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Skills Students Assignments Essay 212

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2022

Gregg Coccari, the CEO of Udemy, says that since its platform allows almost anyone to create a video course, just as YouTue allows any user to upload video, that it is up to instructors on whether to use coupons or to temporarily make their courses free to drive interest. Nineteen instructors made more than $1 million last year, he adds.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2022

Meanwhile, universities will need to put in time, money and effort to integrate their physical and digital learning offerings, argues Lee Skallerup Bessette, assistant director for digital learning at Georgetown University, in an essay in the report.

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Hybrid Learning Essay Hybrid Courses Ethics 148

Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2023

After all, it’s tailor-made to craft the kinds of essays that instructors ask for. As we explored in an episode of the EdSurge Podcast a couple weeks ago , students around the country at schools and colleges have figured out that they can easily ask ChatGPT to do their homework for them. So professors have been quick to respond.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2023

It was the latest example of how AI is turning things upside down in education. After all, chatbots can suddenly spit out five-paragraph essays and other texts in seconds, once considered something that only humans could generate. Others, though, said they use ChatGPT to make suggestions to make the essays they wrote better.

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Ethics Essay Teachers Academic Integrity 148

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Hoping to Regain Attention of Students, Professors Pay More Attention to Them Getting and holding the attention of students is more difficult since the pandemic, according to many college instructors around the country. That has academic honor committees scrambling to revise policies and provide resources to instructors.

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Instructors Lecturing Attention Essay 145

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. Here, find recommendations for articles, books and podcasts that have resonated with us — some related to education and others that extend beyond.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2016

In our fourth year-end personal statement roundup, we’ve again asked thought leaders to share their outlooks on education, but with a twist. They have to frame their thoughts as a response to some of the finest college application essay prompts, inspired by the very same ones that high school seniors are feverishly working on now!

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

After a long weekend of grading essays, I submitted the final grades for English 101. working at a university as a professor seemed like my dream job: educating students in a supportive, empowering environment surrounded by highly motivated peers continuing their own specialized research. We were about to head into our winter break.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

He avoids assessing creative writing altogether by assigning his students to write critical essays about their own short stories. He avoids assessing creative writing altogether by assigning his students to write critical essays about their own short stories. It also helps break down the barrier between critical and creative thinking.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it argues that AI can enhance accessibility and efficiency while preserving the human essence of education. Faculty developers and instructors can use this framework to harness AI’s potential, ensuring it supports rather than supplants their pedagogical roles.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 92

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Lightboard technology was invented by Michael Peshkin (Rogers and Botnaru, 2019). A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards require minimal instructor training.

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Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 111

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And professors report that some students even have trouble using more fundamental computer programs to write essays or run calculations. So some colleges and instructors have started to think about how to help students get up to speed on their digital and technical skills.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

That’s partly because when tools detect that students have used AI to assist their work, instructors are unsure how to interpret that information or what they can do about it, according to Turnitin. Still, the unease about inaccurate accusations gives instructors and administrators pause around AI writing detection.

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Plagiarism Academic Integrity Intelligence Instructors 123

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

FUN SAD FACT: According to Avi Yashchin, Senior Offering Manager at IBM Watson: “Sadness [sentiments] in incoming freshman college application essay is the sixth strongest predictor of dropout.” He believes chief academic officers are best positioned to lead and implement a campus-wide strategy around building digital literacies.

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Instructors Essay Science Teaching Assistants 158

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

Drawing on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), it argues that AI can enhance accessibility and efficiency while preserving the human essence of education. Faculty developers and instructors can use this framework to harness AI’s potential, ensuring it supports rather than supplants their pedagogical roles.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 89

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2019

Since forming in 1998, the band has received a steady stream of emails, physical letters and even VHS tapes over the years from a variety of teachers—from preK to graduate school, homeschoolers and even government flight instructors—saying they found inspiration for educational activities from its music videos.

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Art Essay Students Science 166

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

As colleges ask faculty to prepare for a possible online, hybrid or altered in-person fall semester—or all three simultaneously—many instructors are wondering how to best measure student learning. But it was an experience that would give the instructor a chance to see who did his students or her students turn into over the semester?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

John Warner’s forthcoming book, Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities , addresses this question directly. Writing Across the Disciplines : Jason Ferguson summed up this approach best in a 2014 essay: “Every academic discipline requires writing of some kind and most of them require it frequently.”

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Writing Skills Teaching Essay 158

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Lightboard technology was invented by Michael Peshkin (Rogers and Botnaru, 2019). A lightboard is a large glass panel coupled with technology that allows an instructor to write or draw on a large surface (McCorkle & Whitener, 2020). Lightboards require minimal instructor training.

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Online Learning Learning Tools Instructors Learning 98

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

And many teachers use the tool to ask students to give answers in video messages rather than writing out an essay. Instructors said that this helped better bring out the voices of students. For many professors, the killer app of Flipgrid was to replace online discussion forums with video comments by students.

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Discussions Essay Instructors Internet 125

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Students may feel relief as they hand in an exam, but the moment marks the beginning of stress and anxiety for instructors and teaching assistants, who may need to grade hundreds of tests in a short time. Second, the tool is not designed to fully-automate grading, meaning instructors aren’t out of the process completely. (For

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

Instructors are equally susceptible to the deeply counterintuitive nature of learning. Psychology and the real world: Essays illustrating fundamental contributions to society, 56-64. In fact, decades of research reveal that students: are poor judges of the efficacy of their learning efforts. And I don't mean to pick only on learners.

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Education Evaluation Failure Essay 159

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2016

Students may tend to think that composing an essay or conducting research is easier done on a laptop, for instance. Innovation that better supports instructors Much of the educational technology that has been developed for teachers is about creating compelling experiences for students.

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Mobile Devices Learning Quizzes Essay 113

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

The good news is educational technology is making it far easier to not just improve academic outcomes, but to help students thrive through what should be one of the most formative experiences many of us will have in our lifetimes. They also allow instructors to generate a steady stream of signals we can use to support our students.

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