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America’s colleges have an extra-time-on-tests problem.
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It is with pleasure we introduce Curtin Learning and Teaching’s newly formed Learning Futures Team. The new area, Led by Associate Professor David Gibson, has been created using a combination of existing and new functions. • Innovation Studio • Partnerships and Pathways • UniReady • Insight Centre - Learning Analytics
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Three years ago, researchers tested AI on real Australian law exams and it struggled. They wanted to know if this is still the case.
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Unis have always had academic misconduct processes in place. But the impact of these experiences on students’ wellbeing has been mostly anecdotal.
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Blue-book exams are fine, but we need to address the issue at its root.
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An oral exam can show how students have meaningfully engaged with a topic. But it shouldn’t be used as a litmus test for AI use.
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For as long as there have been tests in schools, students have found ways to cheat, whether its peeking over a classmate’s shoulder or scribbling notes on a palm or crib sheet.
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“It’s one of the best ideas I’ve heard in a long time,” he said of the move. “If I had my way exams would be paper and pen.”
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I love the quote: "If I had my way, exams would be pen and paper"! Go on, ignore the world we are living in. Perhaps we could have two part exams. The first 90 minutes just pen and paper, and the the second 90 minutes, pull out whatever you have in the bag on the floor?
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Providing a cheating service to Australian university students has cost study support business Chegg half a million dollars plus legal fees.
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A young tech entrepreneur launched the tool Einstein this week, marketing it as a way to free students from busywork—and triggering robust faculty debate. Einstein’s creator says that was the whole point. After this story was published, Paliwal said he received a cease and desist letter from Instructure, which owns Canvas, and has since taken down Einstein’s website.
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Peter Mellow's insight: Interesting quote and perspective: “The most destructive educational technology we have is the large lecture hall. I would be happy if these technologies forced us to stop putting 400 students in a room,” he said, noting that such a change would be costly for institutions. “But if we’re really committed to teaching and learning, maybe we’re starting to learn that the transactional model isn’t going to work anymore.”
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February 26, 7:30 PM
Interesting quote and perspective: “The most destructive educational technology we have is the large lecture hall. I would be happy if these technologies forced us to stop putting 400 students in a room,” he said, noting that such a change would be costly for institutions. “But if we’re really committed to teaching and learning, maybe we’re starting to learn that the transactional model isn’t going to work anymore.” Note: Since this post 'Einstein's' creator has received a cease and desist letter from a LMS company and has closed the site down.
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February 26, 7:31 PM
Interesting quote and perspective: “The most destructive educational technology we have is the large lecture hall. I would be happy if these technologies forced us to stop putting 400 students in a room,” he said, noting that such a change would be costly for institutions. “But if we’re really committed to teaching and learning, maybe we’re starting to learn that the transactional model isn’t going to work anymore.”
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The revelations come as the university regulator issues an urgent warning about contract cheaters on Australian campuses.
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From bathroom checks to having spare pens at the ready, exam invigilators maintain the calm and ensure students have what they need to sit their final exams.
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An Australian university has accused thousands of its students of cheating with artificial intelligence. The problem? Many have done nothing wrong.
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A chatbot can produce text, but it can’t sustain a probing conversation about your reasoning. Our work suggests oral assessment has a role in the age of AI.
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VCE exam misconduct: How students are getting caught for cheating with AI, mobile phones and copying
A teenager trying to circumvent the state’s exam rules caught uploading test questions to the popular chatbot, before trying to pass off AI-generated answers as their own.
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Artificial Intelligence detection tools can sometimes create more problems for teachers and students than they fix.
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Thousands of Kenyans made a living writing essays for overseas students. With A.I., the work has dried up, a warning for online gig work that has been a global lifeline.
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Students’ use of AI is teaching them to cut corners, disdain rules, and believe that integrity is for suckers and wimps.
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A steep rise in cheating in HSC assessments has continued for the second year in a row, as schools grapple with the use of artificial intelligence.
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Students have always cheated in exams. But instead of handwritten notes, they might now use AI-enabled glasses.
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Growing misuse of, and unequal access to, AI tools requires universities to rethink how they evaluate learning
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The safeguards in place to protect research integrity are not keeping pace with the tools that can be used to circumvent them.
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A Pew survey also found that more than 1 in 10 U.S. teens use AI for emotional support or advice, and that they are more hopeful about the technology than adults.
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America’s colleges have an extra-time-on-tests problem.
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Dozens of students were caught trying to cheat in last year’s VCE exams, using anything from concealed mobile phones to writing notes on their skin to gain an edge.
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Victoria is being urged to follow the lead of other states and ban powerful calculators from being used in final year exams to improve maths understanding.
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Students and experts are calling for fundamental reform of the VCE, arguing it’s no longer fit for purpose.
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