Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

Timely and personalized feedback plays an essential role in engaging students and motivating them (Wang and Lehman 2021, 571); AI can aid in streamlining and fast-tracking feedback. In deeply engaging students in an immersive and individualized way, students are more motivated to learn and more satisfied with educational outcomes.

Instructors 93

Instructors Disabilities Ethics English 93

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

In cyberspace, students are confronted often–if not daily–with questions regarding cyberbullying, digital privacy, digital footprints, plagiarism, and more. An important part of succeeding in core classes is understanding the language. The question is: Who’s teaching students how to thrive in this brave new world?

Teachers 139

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Growing problems and motives behind bots posing as students In higher education there is a troubling trend: the use of bots to register as students, particularly in online classes. The motive behind the use of bots is to defraud colleges and universities. Establish clear reporting procedures for suspected bot usage.

Academic Integrity 111

Academic Integrity Education Plagiarism Students 111

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JULY 24, 2020

plagiarism. This is a high-energy, innovative, and motivating class that can be reproduced in a Professional Development setting or with students in your classroom. This is a high-energy, innovative, and motivating class that can be reproduced in a Professional Development setting or with students in your classroom. plagiarism.

Authentic Assessment 107

Authentic Assessment Plagiarism Instructors Internet 107

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

motivated reasoning). Several students thought an Associated Press piece was plagiarized because they saw it printed in multiple news sources and couldn’t identify the author. When comparing two articles, students will comment on the level of context and detail that are present, differences in language (e.g.,

Teaching 130

Teaching Evaluation Discussions Plagiarism 130

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

The Motive It is unknown whether Ruiz intended to cheat in New York or if the opportunity merely presented itself and she took it. Use rubrics as a shared language of the route that teachers and students can use formatively to navigate the path toward high-quality work rather than as a summative tool to justify grades.

Academic Integrity 88

Academic Integrity Learning Feedback Assignments 88

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Most digital writing tools offer limited assistance: they check for plagiarism, allow a student to track changes, or offer the ability to add comments. From kindergarten through college, teachers know that writers need guided practice, substantive feedback, and opportunities for deep revision.

Feedback 134

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Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

In a meta-analysis on the use of AI chatbots in education, Wu and Yu (2023) found that AI chatbots can significantly improve learning outcomes, specifically in the areas of learning performance, motivation, self-efficacy, interest, and perceived value of learning. 2023) – making ChatGPT a plagiarism machine! Smolensky, P.,

Academic Integrity 137

Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 137

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JUNE 23, 2020

plagiarism. This is a high-energy, innovative, and motivating class that can be reproduced in a Professional Development setting or with students in your classroom. plagiarism. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Write Source, IB, Common Core, or other popular language arts curricula. netiquette.

Authentic Assessment 99

Authentic Assessment Plagiarism Internet Writing 99

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JUNE 11, 2019

plagiarism. This is a high-energy, innovative, and motivating class that can be reproduced in a Professional Development setting or with students in your classroom. This is a high-energy, innovative, and motivating class that can be reproduced in a Professional Development setting or with students in your classroom. plagiarism.

Plagiarism 92

Plagiarism Internet Fairness Instructors 92

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

motivated reasoning). Several students thought an Associated Press piece was plagiarized because they saw it printed in multiple news sources and couldn’t identify the author. When comparing two articles, students will comment on the level of context and detail that are present, differences in language (e.g.,

Teaching 111

Teaching Evaluation Discussions Plagiarism 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

While grades provide extrinsic motivation for some students, not all students are driven by the sole purpose of getting a good grade. If you make this clear to them, you might find that they will find more value in the assignment and be less motivated to cheat with AI. This helps with executive functioning and improves motivation.

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

While grades provide extrinsic motivation for some students, not all students are driven by the sole purpose of getting a good grade. If you make this clear to them, you might find that they will find more value in the assignment and be less motivated to cheat with AI. This helps with executive functioning and improves motivation.

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 24, 2023

This is combined with Large Language Models (LLMs) which collect extensive data from various sources, including Wikipedia, public forums, and programming-related websites like Q&A sites and tutorials. These keywords help search engines understand the user’s intentions, motivations, and expectations for the results.

Intelligence 98

Intelligence Critical Thinking Academic Integrity Peer Review 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 24, 2023

This is combined with Large Language Models (LLMs) which collect extensive data from various sources, including Wikipedia, public forums, and programming-related websites like Q&A sites and tutorials. These keywords help search engines understand the user’s intentions, motivations, and expectations for the results.

Intelligence 96

Intelligence Critical Thinking Academic Integrity Peer Review 96

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JUNE 23, 2016

Sure, “share knowledge” works better with appropriate transition words and comma placement, but those sorts of skills better fit ‘language’ than ‘writing’ Writing is about the thoughtfulness and creativity required to communicate based on audience, task and purpose. Anyone can get through 140 characters.

Writing 92

Writing Teaching Essay Plagiarism 92

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AUGUST 23, 2018

plagiarism. This is a high-energy, innovative, and motivating class that can be reproduced in a Professional Development setting or with students in your classroom. plagiarism. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Write Source, IB, Common Core, or other popular language arts curricula. netiquette.

Authentic Assessment 74

Authentic Assessment Plagiarism Internet Writing 74

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

In a meta-analysis on the use of AI chatbots in education, Wu and Yu (2023) found that AI chatbots can significantly improve learning outcomes, specifically in the areas of learning performance, motivation, self-efficacy, interest, and perceived value of learning. 2023) – making ChatGPT a plagiarism machine! Smolensky, P.,

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 98

EAB

JUNE 8, 2023

However, this comparison is not appropriate for several reasons: Unprecedented user growth ChatGPT’s rapid and diverse user growth has been the fastest in tech history, far outpacing the limited adoption of highly motivated students who embraced MOOCs. Students may be plagued by plagiarism concerns.

Plagiarism 52

Plagiarism Instructors Evaluation Academic Integrity 52

Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2023

There is debate recently on student use of ChatGPT, a chatbot using a large language model (LLM) which uses machine-learning algorithms to understand natural language and generate responses (Radford et al., The main debate has been in its use of plagiarism among students. It was neither productive nor motivating.

Plagiarism 122

Plagiarism Essay Assignments Language 122

Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2023

There is debate recently on student use of ChatGPT, a chatbot using a large language model (LLM) which uses machine-learning algorithms to understand natural language and generate responses (Radford et al., The main debate has been in its use of plagiarism among students. It was neither productive nor motivating.

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Essay Assignments Language 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

Employ plagiarism checkers. Many instructors already rely on plagiarism checkers. But while a plagiarism detector cannot tell us who wrote a paper if it is not in a database of papers to be checked against, there is now at least one plagiarism detector dedicated to sniffing out AI-generated content.

Assignments 122

Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 122

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 22, 2023

Employ plagiarism checkers. Many instructors already rely on plagiarism checkers. But while a plagiarism detector cannot tell us who wrote a paper if it is not in a database of papers to be checked against, there is now at least one plagiarism detector dedicated to sniffing out AI-generated content.

Assignments 98

Assignments Writing Plagiarism Instructors 98