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California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it?

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Why would students write anything themselves, instructors wondered, if a chatbot could do it for them? Brill-Wynkoop heard the same pitch back in the early 2000s: Instructors could catch a student turning in a peer’s paper from a previous semester with Turnitin. The Center for Democracy & Technology, a D.C.-based

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Is the Traditional Classroom Becoming Obsolete?

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You might argue that the traditional classroom still plays an essential role in education, but the rapid growth of online and hybrid models suggests otherwise. This shift raises critical questions about the future of education: How will teachers adapt their roles? Another concern is the varying levels of access to technology.

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Practical Strategies for Interdisciplinary Teaching in Today’s University

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At our college, we have learned that it means weaving ideas, theories, and methods from many fields to examine a shared theme or question. Often, this means finding a central theme, problem, or question that ties everything together. Her research focuses on educational technology, leadership development, and teaching innovation.

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College Students Are Doing Less Homework. Should Instructors Change How They Assign It?

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Johnson, a writing instructor and chair of the writing center at Madison Colleg “It all sort of feels bundled together,” Cohn says. Instead, college instructors need to change how they assign and communicate their homework assignments. I think there's less willingness to just do the thing because somebody told you to do it.” — Sarah Z.

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Online-Only Students Report Little Interaction With Instructors and Peers

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That was the research question posed in the latest Community College Survey of Student Engagement, a large-scale survey of more than 82,000 students across 181 community colleges. When you’re face to face, it’s a lot easier for an instructor to say, ‘OK, we’re going to work in teams,’” she explained.

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How Instructors Are Adapting to a Rise in Student Disengagement

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Administrators at Texas State asked instructors to go back to teaching as they did before COVID-19, Meeks said. “I Probably some people look the questions up online because it's an online test a lot of the time. For Meeks, the longtime instructor, this means students are missing out on the whole point of college. “I

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How Can Online Instructors Get Students to Talk to Each Other?

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You can pose a question for a future column here. Make it Easy for Students to Interact It can be a delicate balance to try to not overwhelm students by the quantity of educational technology we use in a class, while still keeping things interesting through the element of surprise.