Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

Dr. Tony Zhang from Gies College of Business offered perspective on AI, ChatBot technology, and ethical academic support tools. A reworded syllabus, an anonymous feedback survey, or a mid-semester check-in can shift a students entire trajectory. These findings dont argue against academic rigor.

Disabilities 53

Disabilities Course Design Lecturing Students 53

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Collaborative syllabus design: During the first class, engage students in setting community and classroom norms and goals. A co-created syllabus session fosters accountability and trust, as students feel ownership of the course structure (Cook-Sather et al.,

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Edsurge

JULY 25, 2016

Students do take a short exam at the end of the year on topics including data security and ethics, but their projects and applications make up the largest component of their grade. So far, 1500 teachers have been trained on creating a Computer Science Principles syllabus for the fall of 2016.

Science 113

Science Exams Accessibility Syllabus 113

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Is it time to admit the unease we feel at ethically teaching technology we ourselves do not use or fully understand? What ethical considerations exist for robots themselves, their electric brains jammed with all that human-made truth and beauty? I embrace progress; I do not want to teach in elbow patches from a dusty syllabus.

Plagiarism 116

Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 116

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

Is it time to admit the unease we feel at ethically teaching technology we ourselves do not use or fully understand? What ethical considerations exist for robots themselves, their electric brains jammed with all that human-made truth and beauty? I embrace progress; I do not want to teach in elbow patches from a dusty syllabus.

Plagiarism 111

Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 111

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 6, 2022

I typically don’t describe the idea in the syllabus. The chance to correct, adjust, or extend: “In thinking about our last class, I had an afterthought: During our lively discussion of Gatsby in the last class, we didn’t consider how the narrator’s point of view might affect the characters’ ethics.

Ethics 97

Ethics Minute Papers Syllabus Course Evaluations 97

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

Previously, her syllabus relied on a series of pamphlets from the Water Education Foundation, a California-based non-profit. Anagnoson also holds a graduate degree from Harvard University, where she specialized in environmental ethics. Anagnoson says she considered using OER before her course was lumped into the Z-degree.

Textbooks 115

Textbooks Instructors History Syllabus 115

Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2023

The syllabus should be available to students at the beginning of the course and available on the course site for students to reference specific grading policies, course expectations, and course outcomes throughout the length of the course. References Authement, R. S., & Dormire, S. SAGE Open Nursing , 6 , 2377960820937290.

Learning 111

Learning Syllabus Assignments Communication 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice? Figure 1: Screenshot of OpenAI Terms of Use [emphasis as yellow highlight added] Students need opportunities to discuss the ethical issues surrounding the use of AI chatbots. Should you change the way you give exams and design assignments?

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice? Figure 1: Screenshot of OpenAI Terms of Use [emphasis as yellow highlight added] Students need opportunities to discuss the ethical issues surrounding the use of AI chatbots. Should you change the way you give exams and design assignments?

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

We built our own syllabus, decided what topics interested us and recruited experts to talk to us about those topics. But it’s hard to discuss the ethics of online learning when one of our own can’t get wifi in Eastern Europe. Since every conversation was student-driven, our differences drove the conversation.

Students 86

Students Syllabus Essay Ethics 86

Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2023

The syllabus should be available to students at the beginning of the course and available on the course site for students to reference specific grading policies, course expectations, and course outcomes throughout the length of the course. References Authement, R. S., & Dormire, S. SAGE Open Nursing , 6 , 2377960820937290.

Learning 98

Learning Syllabus Assignments Communication 98

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

Dr. Tony Zhang from Gies College of Business offered perspective on AI, ChatBot technology, and ethical academic support tools. A reworded syllabus, an anonymous feedback survey, or a mid-semester check-in can shift a students entire trajectory. These findings dont argue against academic rigor.

Disabilities 64

Disabilities Course Design Lecturing Students 64

k12 Online Schools

MAY 12, 2025

These short lectures often introduce students to ideas theyd never encounter in a regular curriculum, ideas about identity, ethics, global issues, and personal growth. How Algorithms Create Learning Paths (Without a Syllabus) At their core, social media algorithms aim to keep users engaged. Uses platforms as teaching tools.

Online Learning 52

Online Learning Lecturing Learning Textbooks 52

EAB

JUNE 8, 2023

The Sentient Syllabus Project , an academic collaborative exploring the use of AI in higher education, challenges instructors and students alike to observe the principle that "an AI cannot pass a course." AI models can also generate responses that may be inappropriate, offensive, or biased, leading to ethical issues.

Plagiarism 52

Plagiarism Instructors Evaluation Academic Integrity 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2019

But could a show like the Good Place actually belong on a college syllabus? We watch the episode and talk through it and do activities linked to it to help them think through what exactly are ethics and why is that relevant to them. It's a really exciting day for them because it's so different from what we normally do.

Teaching Philosophy 167

Teaching Philosophy Teaching Ethics Syllabus 167