Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

Providing the Spark Jenessa Peterson, director of learning engineering at the Learning Agency, touched off the discussion in a Google Group run by her organization with the question: Is A/B testing between two benign conditions without participants' knowledge OK? Peterson asks on the message board. We’re always running experiments.

Ethics 202

Ethics Knowledge Testing Learning 202

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JULY 14, 2023

Citizen scientists come from all walks of life and have made invaluable contributions to scientific knowledge and understanding. Citizen science allows the common public to participate in important scientific studies, partnering with scientists and helping them with work crucial to the enhancement of human knowledge.

Science 144

Science Participation Laboratory Interdisciplinary 144

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Nevertheless, educators are already employing ChatGPT and other AI-assisted tools for skills enhancement in teaching and research (Crompton and Burke, 2023). In their research projects, my students co-create at three levels: student-client, student-supervisor, and student/supervisor-AI assistant.

Ethics 128

Ethics Intelligence Feedback Languages 128

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Nevertheless, educators are already employing ChatGPT and other AI-assisted tools for skills enhancement in teaching and research (Crompton and Burke, 2023). In their research projects, my students co-create at three levels: student-client, student-supervisor, and student/supervisor-AI assistant.

Ethics 109

Ethics Intelligence Feedback Languages 109

Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

Another thing I’ve observed in higher education is a fishbowl, where students come and swim around in our courses and in our academic curriculum, but they fail to do anything with that knowledge outside of the context of the learning environment itself. For classroom use, participants use a camera to respond to a prompt.

Technology 122

Technology Art Learning Students 122

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

I began to monitor participation patterns and made adjustments to the courses to include more and varied opportunities for engagement. My informal research methods included collecting self-perception data from students on what they found most helpful for staying engaged. However, a connection can also take another shape.

Attention 122

Attention Students Quizzes Interdisciplinary 122

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I had started integrating information literacy skills into my sociology classes with a narrow focus that built on research method topics that were appropriate for an introductory course. One challenge of this question is that it requires students to have some knowledge of different political perspectives on the topic.

Teaching 130

Teaching Evaluation Discussions Plagiarism 130