Faculty Focus

JANUARY 3, 2023

Consider this response to a query that asked AI to apply Watson’s Carative Factors to a case study: One way to apply Watson’s carative factors to a case study is to use them as a framework for analyzing a patient’s care experience. AI writers seem to have plagiarism issues.

Essay 145

Essay Plagiarism Writing Ethics 145

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Teaching with Technology: Empower and Encourage, Don’t Police and Instill Fear Technology tools like plagiarism detectors and AI checkers can erode trust if used as punitive measures. Rethinking Plagiarism in the Era of Generative AI. Instead, these tools should guide and empower students. Corwin Press. Nilson, L.

Plagiarism 112

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 112

Faculty Focus

APRIL 22, 2025

The key question is: how can we transform AI from a potential source of plagiarism into a valuable educational resource? This allows educators to gain insights from students interactions with these technologies, fostering a deeper understanding of their applications and promoting ethical use.

Ethics 100

Ethics Plagiarism Education Intelligence 100

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Can we learn lessons from the sci-fi canon and reframe the debate around AI technology and writing studies? Is it time to admit the unease we feel at ethically teaching technology we ourselves do not use or fully understand? Hey, as long as we’re post plagiarism, can we be post grading, too?

Plagiarism 115

Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 115

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Teaching with Technology: Empower and Encourage, Don’t Police and Instill Fear Technology tools like plagiarism detectors and AI checkers can erode trust if used as punitive measures. Rethinking Plagiarism in the Era of Generative AI. Instead, these tools should guide and empower students. Corwin Press. Nilson, L.

Plagiarism 96

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 96

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Can we learn lessons from the sci-fi canon and reframe the debate around AI technology and writing studies? Is it time to admit the unease we feel at ethically teaching technology we ourselves do not use or fully understand? Hey, as long as we’re post plagiarism, can we be post grading, too?

Plagiarism 109

Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 109

Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

Issues like plagiarism, cheating (on tests or in admission scandals), and integrity have been the center of ethical conversations for many years. Recent empirical studies validate imitative learning strategies as effective in supporting learners with low prior knowledge. These concerns are not new.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

Issues like plagiarism, cheating (on tests or in admission scandals), and integrity have been the center of ethical conversations for many years. Recent empirical studies validate imitative learning strategies as effective in supporting learners with low prior knowledge. These concerns are not new.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98

Lab to Class

MAY 10, 2024

Plagiarism in the classroom is when students try to turn in an assignment that they did not write. However, with the advent of AI language models that can write completely unique papers for students, how can a teacher know if a paper is plagiarized when traditional plagiarism checkers fail?

Plagiarism 52

Plagiarism Essay Teachers Assignments 52

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The positive use would include the transformation of the online learning experience for students by offering personalized learning support, enhancing engagement and interaction, providing real-time feedback, assisting with study preparation, and offering language support. Establish clear reporting procedures for suspected bot usage.

Academic Integrity 135

Academic Integrity Education Plagiarism Students 135

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. Huang et al. 2023, 396).

Instructors 103

Instructors Disabilities Ethics English 103

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 3, 2023

Consider this response to a query that asked AI to apply Watson’s Carative Factors to a case study: One way to apply Watson’s carative factors to a case study is to use them as a framework for analyzing a patient’s care experience. AI writers seem to have plagiarism issues.

Essay 98

Essay Plagiarism Writing Ethics 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 8, 2023

Nearly any writing prompt one might assign to be completed outside of class (with a few notable exceptions) can be written pretty well, quickly, at no cost, and undetectable by our current plagiarism software by anyone who takes a little time to learn the nuances of ChatGPT. What do we want our world to be like?

Metacognitive Skills 138

Metacognitive Skills Ethics Writing Plagiarism 138

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A key conversation focuses on weighing its benefits versus risks, and many education institutions have been quick to implement bans on the technology altogether for fears of plagiarism in written works. According to a McKinsey’s study, teachers spend over 20 percent of their time just preparing for class. How can I use AI as a teacher?

Plagiarism 130

Plagiarism Education Intelligence Textbooks 130

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. Huang et al. 2023, 396).

Instructors 89

Instructors Disabilities Ethics English 89

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Just take a look at the article, “ Here are the schools and colleges that have banned the use of ChatGPT over plagiarism and misinformation fears ” (Nolan, 2023), and you will find several U.S. AI text detectors do not work in the same way that plagiarism checkers do. Academic dishonesty is prohibited in all programs of the University.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Just take a look at the article, “ Here are the schools and colleges that have banned the use of ChatGPT over plagiarism and misinformation fears ” (Nolan, 2023), and you will find several U.S. AI text detectors do not work in the same way that plagiarism checkers do. Academic dishonesty is prohibited in all programs of the University.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The positive use would include the transformation of the online learning experience for students by offering personalized learning support, enhancing engagement and interaction, providing real-time feedback, assisting with study preparation, and offering language support. Establish clear reporting procedures for suspected bot usage.

Academic Integrity 111

Academic Integrity Education Plagiarism Students 111

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

As part of the recent rush to comment on ChatGPT, this article is not weighing in on the ongoing ethical debates, nor is it offering a comprehensive how-to guide, but rather simply sharing one professor’s initial use of the AI tool and how it successfully accomplished the learning objectives and expectations for one course assignment.

Assignments 124

Assignments History Art Ethics 124

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 24, 2023

Most recently, a study showed that ChatGPT fooled scientists nearly one-third of the time (Bushard, 2023, p.1). In a study of ChatGPT in 60 records, the authors found benefits were cited in 85% of the cases (51 cases). Fake scientific abstracts written by Chatgpt Fooled Scientists, study finds. 2023, April 26).

Intelligence 98

Intelligence Critical Thinking Academic Integrity Peer Review 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 24, 2023

Most recently, a study showed that ChatGPT fooled scientists nearly one-third of the time (Bushard, 2023, p.1). In a study of ChatGPT in 60 records, the authors found benefits were cited in 85% of the cases (51 cases). Fake scientific abstracts written by Chatgpt Fooled Scientists, study finds. 2023, April 26).

Intelligence 94

Intelligence Critical Thinking Academic Integrity Peer Review 94

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 8, 2023

Nearly any writing prompt one might assign to be completed outside of class (with a few notable exceptions) can be written pretty well, quickly, at no cost, and undetectable by our current plagiarism software by anyone who takes a little time to learn the nuances of ChatGPT. What do we want our world to be like?

Metacognitive Skills 98

Metacognitive Skills Ethics Writing Plagiarism 98