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Higher Ed’s AI Integration Overhyped, New Data Shows

For the first time, the company that owns Canvas analyzed which external learning tools higher education users integrated into the LMS most often. The most popular AI tool didn’t even crack the top 100.

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Citing Misconceptions, University of Michigan Pauses Pass–No Credit Pilot

Less than two months after announcing a pass–no credit grading pilot program, the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science...
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Opinion

The Cures for AI Are Killing Us

The retreat from take-home essays jeopardizes the future of the humanities.

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Opinion

Why We Haven’t Measured College-Level Learning

Past efforts have failed because of tension over whether they’re for us (colleges) or them (our overseers). Let’s try again so colleges can prove they’re giving students what we promise them.

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Opinion

(Some) Starter Questions for Measuring Learning

Let’s do it, if we’re going to do it.

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University of Pennsylvania Now Enforcing Math Prerequisites

As college students’ math skills decline worldwide, Penn is verifying students’ readiness for advanced calculus and algebra courses.

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MIT AI Report Calls for Alternative Grading, More Social Learning

Artificial intelligence is upending the MIT education, a committee has found. Students, instructors and administrators will need to revisit nearly every part of that experience to respond to it.

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AI Tends to Mark Students’ Essays Higher Than Humans, Study Shows

LLMs cannot be relied on to give accurate indication of student performance, researchers find, as universities explore ways to relieve pressure on graders.