Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

Without the constant need to defend or assert one’s ego (our preferences and aversions), the instructor’s attention can open to what is happening in the room or on the screen. Students become not coerced performers of outcomes, but a voluntary community, engaged with the instructor in shared learning.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

Without the constant need to defend or assert one’s ego (our preferences and aversions), the instructor’s attention can open to what is happening in the room or on the screen. Students become not coerced performers of outcomes, but a voluntary community, engaged with the instructor in shared learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It’s also somewhat eclipsed conversations about the ethics of how these tools are implemented, according to one observer. That can lead to missteps, like, in his opinion, regarding chatbots as a replacement for instructors or paraprofessionals. Those teachers were largely white and from public schools, introducing limitations.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

That’s the ethics debate playing out in one online educator space , a lively back-and-forth carried over from a recent workshop on educational A/B testing. Especially if you do so without any form of informed consent or the involvement of the instructors.” It carries with it the question of, what’s benign? Lynch says.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

Educators and institutions are grappling with how best to integrate these tools into the learning environment while balancing innovation with ethical considerations, assessment concerns, and instructor comfort. Schools or instructors adopting this stance may wish to emphasize traditional methods of learning and assessment.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

However, it raises ethical concerns about user dependency and the urgent need for clear policies and educator training to ensure responsible implementation. It also examines the growing role of generative AI in education, emphasizing its potential to transform learning through personalized instruction and enhanced efficiency.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

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., As the capacity of AI grows to complete increasingly complex tasks, we (as college instructors) may wonder what we can offer our students in the age of AI.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

So we have a little thing we do where they bring in business ethics news and as you could imagine, the coronavirus has been coming up a lot. And so I had just decided, you know what? We can [do what we had scheduled later]. I just wanted to check in with them.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Key points : Today’s students will undoubtedly encounter generative AI in their careers Two higher-ed instructors have designed a guide for using generative AI in life design and career education See related article: A scholar’s embrace of ChatGPT-4 Innovations that have transformed education have often been met with skepticism.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

All students will get a grounding in what the company calls “cyber hygiene,” or staying safe online, and in the ethical implications of hacking. Less robust courses, scaling down the curriculum to just a semester or nine weeks, are also on tap, and a simplified version will be tailored especially for middle-school classrooms.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Perhaps more importantly, it's also about creating an effective, ethical and equitable educational experience for every learner. And importantly, it also incorporates ethical considerations, ensuring that the technology used is transparent and data privacy is maintained. It's about making education more equitable and ethical.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2025

But she says its important to remember that students are only human, and that some humans have always cheated in certain situations especially young people still figuring out their ethics and values. Remembering that most students arent looking to be cheaters can take down the temperature so that instructors dont get so worked up about it.

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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. Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.) That’s in part because of a huge batch of new tools and updated features that incorporate ChatGPT, which companies have released in recent weeks.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Generally, in smaller classes, students can establish stronger relationships with their instructors. This means they will stick around longer, giving every school or university the benefit of expert instructors. You’ll study topics like community relations, ethics, meeting the needs of diverse learners, budgeting, research, and more.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 30, 2024

Students learn about the ethics of employing AI technologies, including credit and the value of original ideas in scholarly work. This technique guarantees that while AI supports and streamlines writing, instructors guide and analyze student growth.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

Yet as instructors in the new world of online education, we have access to ever-increasing amounts of data—from recorded lecture videos, electronically submitted homework, discussion forums, and online quizzes and assessments—that may give us insights into individual student learning.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

Towards the end of their email message, there was some clarifying information regarding the role of the professor: “Individual instructors have the authority to establish course policies for the use of ChatGPT and other AI tools. That instructor, Kyle Ali, took two key steps in his “Diversity in a Global Economy” course.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Developing the skills to use these tools ethically is an essential part of digital literacy that will carry forward to help them succeed in school and in life.” We do understand, however, that educators and companies have legitimate concerns about the ethical use of AI tools. And it’s constantly changing.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Great diversity and multiplicity of options creates dilemma for many, college technology instructors being at the forefront. What about ethical issues? Such situation elicits some basic questions: what kind of technology training do we provide for our teacher candidates and how do we do it?

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

While AI-powered tools offer potential to enhance teaching and learning, concerns about AI replacing human instructors have sparked a complex debate. While AI can be a powerful tool to augment the teaching experience, human instructors remain essential for fostering student engagement, critical thinking, and emotional well-being.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

While AI-powered tools offer potential to enhance teaching and learning, concerns about AI replacing human instructors have sparked a complex debate. While AI can be a powerful tool to augment the teaching experience, human instructors remain essential for fostering student engagement, critical thinking, and emotional well-being.

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Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 111

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2024

At Columbia University’s Science of Learning Research Initiative (SOLER), our work is dedicated to examining the academic experience of our students and instructors through a scientific lens. Our efforts to analyze data have helped us shine a light on these issues.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

It’s not as simple as assuming that students are all cheaters, the instructor stresses. Peirce Caudell, of Indiana University, says her students have raised ethical issues with using AI tools as well. Even so, the instructor is seeing positive impacts for students, such as when they use a tool to help make flashcards to study.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

With the release of AI on a broad scale and the evolving procedural policies for policing and supporting its use in online higher education classrooms, instructor hesitancy to implement AI in ethical and effectual ways is shared by many. AI can considerably improve engagement in the classroom (A. Huang et al.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2020

And whatever career they pursue, “they’re going to be under stress and pressure a lot and we want them to make ethical decisions. The most often cited justification was that the instructor is responsible for providing an environment without resources for cheating.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2025

FLVS instructors who teach Algebra 1 will lead this innovative program, teaching the online courses while also supplementing students learning with activities that build students’ understanding of math and AI concepts. FLVS students enrolled in Algebra 1 who elect to earn the certification will begin April 7.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2024

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.” Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.) The measure has stalled for now.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This flexibility allows for adaptable AI integration while maintaining openness and transparency between instructors and learners. It's going to come from… the instructor. It's going to come from… the instructor.” I believe in humans so heavily; that's where the creativity is going to come from. It's not going to come from AI.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2023

And the fast-changing tech has now inspired students to spend part of their summer volunteering to make sure their instructors try AI for themselves and not simply throw up their hands in fear that students will use chatbots to cheat. Once they know the limitations, they stop being so scared of these tools,” says Chang.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 25, 2025

What is Peer-to-peer Learning Peer-to-peer learning is where individuals learn from and with each other rather than relying on a traditional teacher or instructor. Lack of Expert Guidance : Without a qualified instructor, misinformation can spread if no one catches errors. If some peers slack off, the group suffers.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Developers of proctoring tools say that despite relying on artificial intelligence to flag suspected instances of cheating, it is ultimately up to a human, usually the instructor, to review and make the final call. More than 60,000 U.S. Ultimately, edtech vendors and school leaders should ask not just ‘Can we do this?’

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

And as one-to-one device programs gain traction ( hitting over 50 percent in 2017 , and climbing into the 80 and 90 percent range during the pandemic ), it’s safe to assume that more students will be asking their questions to Google before their instructors. It’s not difficult to see a child’s reasoning behind this.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

One reason boils down to a technicality: such research usually requires the approval of a college’s Institutional Review Board, or IRB, the office that makes sure any research involving human subjects follows legal and ethical guidelines. A new effort announced today hopes to ease that bureaucratic burden.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Belhaven faculty will teach the courses, while Moe plans to serve as an adjunct instructor and participate in virtual office hours for students, along with other members of GSV. Moe hopes that emphasis on ethics will help differentiate the new curriculum from what’s offered in MBA programs elsewhere. “It

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

With the release of AI on a broad scale and the evolving procedural policies for policing and supporting its use in online higher education classrooms, instructor hesitancy to implement AI in ethical and effectual ways is shared by many. AI can considerably improve engagement in the classroom (A. Huang et al.

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2023

Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.); But plenty of instructors, even some with concerns, see promise for the technology as an aid to education, and many experts say the quick adoptions means that such chatbots will likely be part of the workplace of the future that students should know about.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2020

For example, I’ve made requests such as, “Everyone please name one ethical challenge of AI” (where hardly anyone ever gives a wrong answer) or, “Would you use algorithm A or B, and why?” If everyone in your department does this, it will reduce the feeling of any one instructor being the “mean one” who intrudes on everyone’s privacy.

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