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Startup Hopes to Shake Up Textbook Market By Encouraging a Mix-and-Match of Courseware

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It’s not the first time that someone has tried a marketplace for courseware, notes Stephen Downes, a national expert in online learning technology who runs the long-running OLDaily newsletter.

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Five Tips for Writing Academic Integrity Statements in the Age of AI 

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As educators and students grapple with what is allowed when using generative AI (GenAI) tools, I have compiled five tips to help you design or redesign academic integrity statements for your syllabus, assignments, exams, and course activities. Banning GenAI tools is not the solution Many students use GenAI tools to aid their learning.

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Pushback Is Growing Against Automated Proctoring Services. But So Is Their Use

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Is a ‘desk scan’ necessary for a syllabus quiz? Social Media Battles One of the most forceful critics of automated proctoring services has been Ian Linkletter, a learning technology specialist at the University of British Columbia, which uses Proctorio. That’s ridiculous,” he says.

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Five Tips for Writing Academic Integrity Statements in the Age of AI 

Faculty Focus

As educators and students grapple with what is allowed when using generative AI (GenAI) tools, I have compiled five tips to help you design or redesign academic integrity statements for your syllabus, assignments, exams, and course activities. Banning GenAI tools is not the solution Many students use GenAI tools to aid their learning.

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Speak Up, Speak Out! The Student Voices That Stirred Higher Ed in 2016

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Below is just a small sample of the range of activities and conversations they engaged in, as described by Andrew Rikard , an undergraduate at Davidson College and the facilitator of the inaugural cohort: “We built our own syllabus, decided what topics interested us and recruited experts to talk to us about those topics.

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A Summer of Student Voices

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“But adaptive-learning technologies are bullsh*t, c’mon,” one of us would say. I see your perspective, but think about it this way,” another might respond, “Your dystopian visions of tech mean less when you think about the millions of students who aren’t learning now. You can’t mix AltSchool and Freire.”. “I

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Essential Considerations for Addressing the Possibility of AI-Driven Cheating, Part 1

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With increasing access to different types of AI chatbots, and increasing advances in AI technology, “preventing student cheating via AI” has risen to the top of the list of faculty concerns for 2023 (Lucariello, 2023). Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice?