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Opinion

AI Is Not Replacing Learning—It’s Exposing Where Learning Was Thin to Begin With

Have we been assessing learning all this time, or just outputs?

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Legal Advocacy Group Raises Concern About AI Use in Federal Student Aid

Student Defense, a legal advocacy group, is utilizing public records requests to explore how the Trump administration is using artificial...
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Journal Submissions Riddled With AI-Created Fake Citations

References used to be one of the last things journal editors checked before publishing a paper. Artificial intelligence is changing that.

Opinion

A Comprehensive View of the Role of AI in the University

We are approaching the integration of artificial intelligence into our universities in a piecemeal rather than a comprehensive fashion.

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In-Person Classes Aren’t Safe From the AI Cheating Boom

One professor was surprised to learn how easy digital technology makes it for students to cheat on class participation assignments and some exams.

Opinion

Robot Overlords and Red Herrings

The key issue is power. Get that right and the bots may serve a useful purpose. Get that wrong and the viral memo may prove prophetic.

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Agentic AI Can Complete Whole Courses for Students. Now What?

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.

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NSF Plans to Boost Staffing, Halve Grant Solicitations

Following last year’s cuts, the chief management officer of the federal research funding agency says its number of employees is “too low.”