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Opinion

Convergence Around ‘Durable’ Skills

The false binary of degrees vs. skills-based hiring ignores the reality that employers and academics both care first and foremost that people know how to learn.

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Opinion

Assessments in Teaching and Learning in the Age of AI

Clearly, many aspects of everyday living have begun to change in the emerging, evolving age of AI. Higher education must acknowledge and adapt to those changes and anticipate the ones yet to come.

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Opinion

How to Save the Take-Home Essay by Making the Writing Process Visible

AI-detection scores are a black box. But a writing process visualizer lays the groundwork for rich conversations about AI and writing.

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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.