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Researchers Try Using AI Chatbots to Conduct Interviews for Social Science Studies

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The specific prompt, according to a paper published by the researchers , was: “You are a professor at one of the world’s leading research universities, specializing in qualitative research methods with a focus on conducting interviews. And the reason is that they feel like the AI is a non-judgmental entity.

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Is It Ethical to Run Learning Experiments On Students Without Their Knowledge?

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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 wondered at the concern over the test expressed in media coverage.

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How to Become a Citizen Scientist

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Consider: Charles Darwin: Darwin often relied on the observations of amateur naturalists and enthusiasts during his research Mary Anning: a fossil collector in the early 19th century William Herschel: an astronomer who discovered the planet Uranus E. This is where citizen science comes in.

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PhotoVoice: Using Technology to Impact Student Learning and Assessment

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It is often used as a research method in the social sciences and is typically used to study underserved populations and how they experience life—such as homeless youth, victims of trauma, and many more. For classroom use, participants use a camera to respond to a prompt. References: Cook, K., & Quigey, C. Clover, D.

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Learning by Working Together: Developing and Checking for Group Integration Across Diverse Disciplinary Cohorts

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Integrative questionnaire design: In delivering a social research methods module, a shared questionnaire document could be an active boundary object. A live or synchronous approach might involve a collaborative round table role-playing session with multiple participants addressing the same issue. Wenger, Etienne.

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ChatGPT in the Co-creation Process for Applied Research Projects 

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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. Frontiers in Environmental Science 10.

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iPads Did Not Revolutionize Campus Teaching (But a Few Colleges Give Every Student One)

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As a result, students can spend more time participating in classroom activities and discussion.” While Rodriguez is a big fan of the iPad and says she’d purchase the device herself even if the university didn’t provide one, she thinks students still prefers traditional research methods. “I