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Academics work to detect ChatGPT and other AI writing

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Human writers also draw from short- and long-term memories that recall a range of lived experiences and inform personal writing styles. In this cat-and-mouse game, some computer scientists are working to make AI writers more humanlike, while others are working to improve detection tools. Academic fields make progress in this way.

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3 Questions KSU’s Laurel Littrell on How Academic Library Budgets Really Work

Confessions of a Community College Dean

At a public university such as Kansas State University, where I am employed, budget and salary information is public, and understanding about budget decisions and functions is important to our constituents and communities. There is definitely not as much “wiggle room” as you would think in the materials budget!

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Teaching AI writing in terms of co-authorship (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The real question now is definitional: On what terms should educators interact with writing generated from machines? While the sources of the language and information generated by ChatGPT seem to be without precedent, unlike a Google search or a Wikipedia entry, it’s not because there aren’t sources.

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D'Youville struggles with network reliability for a month

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: The cancellation of two days of classes at D’Youville University almost a month ago turned out to be only the start of computer network problems that have led to frustrations across campus, faculty members say. Fox Garrity said she, too, thought the administration could have done more to communicate about the network troubles.

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My first chat with ChatGPT (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

It is important to recognize and celebrate the diversity of experiences and expressions of masculinity and femininity and to avoid making judgments or evaluations based on narrow definitions of what it means to be “macho” or “feminine.” ” Q: Do I contain multitudes?

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Student survey reveals gaps in core academic advising functions

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Looking at responses by institution type, 56 percent of four-year college students say they’ve gotten this kind of advice, compared to 49 percent of community college students. ” Think: technology, number of academic advisers and degree program plans. ” Kimberly U.

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Is HyFlex a viable teaching approach in 'normal' times?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Enilda Romero-Hall is an associate professor in the learning design and technology program at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville; she started teaching HyFlex before the pandemic and got her Ph.D. I got to the point where I understood the basics enough that I was starting to informally coach some of my colleagues on it.