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Giving Data Meaning: Students Should Have A Say In What Analytics Tell You About Them

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However, this emphasis should not detract from the primary mission of educational institutions: to ethically develop and realize both individual and socio-cultural potentialities. To whatever extent an educational technology is considered neutral, there are better and worse ways of putting it into practice.

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Pushback Is Growing Against Automated Proctoring Services. But So Is Their Use

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There are plenty of things students complain about, but no other educational technology has drawn as much organized protest in recent months. Ethics and Surveillance Ironically, Olsen says he created Proctorio because he felt that the remote proctoring services employing humans were too creepy and invasive.

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New AI Tools Are Promoted As Study Aids for Students. Are They Doing More Harm Than Good?

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ask the authors, Zach Justus, director of faculty development at California State University, Chico, and Nik Janos, a professor of sociology there. Peirce Caudell, of Indiana University, says her students have raised ethical issues with using AI tools as well. Has this person used AI when there was a ban in the class?”

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

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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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What Homeschooling During COVID-19 Taught Me About My College Teaching

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Additionally, I am responsible for leading our faculty development team and teaching classes of my own. I taught a business ethics course this semester in which I had honed the learning outcomes down into the most essential ones. This less-is-more approach has been cascading into my teaching more in recent years.

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AI-Powered Teaching: Practical Tools for Community College Faculty

Faculty Focus

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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How Do You Grade a Creative Assignment?

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The concerns you have about assessing creative work seem to reflect an important (I would even say necessary) ethic you are attempting to live up to in your teaching. He stressed that good teaching is about inviting students to solve problems or answer questions they find “intriguing, interesting or even beautiful.”