Beth McMurtrie
Reporter at The Chronicle of Higher Education
I write about teaching innovation and the future of learning for The Chronicle of Higher Education. Contact me at beth.mcmurtrie(at)https://t.co/fzlffj780k
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2 weeks ago |
chronicle.com | Beth McMurtrie
Over nearly three decades of teaching, Mary Beth Leibham has developed a good rapport with her students. They speak frankly about their struggles in and outside of the classroom. And her courses in educational and child psychology lead naturally to discussions about learning, memory, and teaching. Or subscribe now to read with unlimited access for as low as $10/month.
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1 month ago |
chronicle.com | Beth McMurtrie
In her 35 years of teaching, Julie Brown has never seen anything like it. Fake students — bots, as she calls them — have been enrolling in her courses at an alarming rate. Last fall, the marketing professor at Santa Barbara City College dropped 30 of her 140 students from an online Business 101 course. She also removed eight potential bots from an in-person introductory management course. This spring, she estimates about 10 of her 45 students across five courses may have been fraudulent.
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2 months ago |
chronicle.com | Beth McMurtrie |Eric Kelderman |Evan Goldstein |Len Gutkin
More institutions are saying yes. Persuading professors is only the first barrier they face.
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2 months ago |
chronicle.com | Beth McMurtrie
Last fall one of Jacqueline Fajardo’s students came to her office, eager to tell her about an AI tool that was helping him learn general chemistry. Had she heard of Google NotebookLM? He had been using it for half a semester in her honors course. He confidently showed her how he could type in the learning outcomes she posted for each class and the tool would produce explanations and study guides. It even created a podcast based on an academic paper he had uploaded.
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2 months ago |
chronicle.com | Beth McMurtrie
This week, I:Share some ideas about AI literacy. Ask whether current events have entered your classroom. Adjusting to AILast summer, when Julie Bauer Morrison’s son was interning at a Fortune 500 company, he was asked to produce a summary of a long document for his team. After he turned it in, his boss sent him an email: “Did you do this all yourself or did you utilize GPT? CoPilot?” She wanted to make sure he used AI, she wrote, because he had better things to do with his time.
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The Chronicle is tracking executive orders, statements from Trump, and agency actions that affect higher education, plus legal challenges directed at those measures. The tracker focuses on four areas: civil rights, research, policy, and immigration. https://t.co/uaqAPkyfAO
RT @chronicle: A professor despaired over students’ misuse of AI in writing. So she overhauled her approach — and says it has dramatically…
“There are people who are gung ho to move forward and there are people who are terrified," said one of the survey's authors. "That makes it sort of hard to figure out as a broad class of institutions where the future lies.” https://t.co/bmggPMznby