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"The survey found that female and international students were particularly worried about being wrongly flagged as AI cheats. Students with disabilities or special educational needs were almost four times as likely as other students to experience a lot of stress when using AI tools"
AI ‘double-edged sword’ increases anxiety among students
Rampant technology considered both essential knowledge and an employability threat, survey finds
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"Some professors think generative AI has no place in education. Others believe it can push students to new levels of comprehension and ability. Some are adamantly against any form of surveillance; others insist it is the only way to verify authenticity."
With AI in the Classroom, Professors Are Walking a Tightrope
Embrace it or reject it, the tool is forcing faculty to change the way they teach.
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"Insistences that AI should not be used “inappropriately” are especially hard for students to adhere to, he said, and universities need to ensure that policies are written “for students, not AI specialists” and provide “clear examples” of their application."
Are universities returning to in-person exams to combat AI cheating?
Given AI’s ubiquity in the workplace, some believe that students should now be assessed on their aptitude in working with it. But others insist employers are still more interested in innate ability –…
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"Higher education is a high-cost gamble for access to a precarious future, and students will look for ways to reduce the cost of that gamble in time, energy, attention, and effort."
The Audacious Ask of Higher Education
Part 2 of some collected thoughts at the end of academic year 4 of GenAI...
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"Teaching students how to use AI tools is insufficient. They need to understand when to question outputs, how to identify bias or error, and where accountability ultimately sits."
AI demands that human judgement become a defined degree outcome
To protect graduate employment, universities must explicitly teach and assess the skills that AI still can’t replicate, says Boxi Yang
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"When all cognitive friction is removed, although students may save time, genuine cognitive growth does not occur."
Why AI Needs Vygotsky: The Case for AI-Based Intentional Friction
The absence of desirable difficulty in AI interactions effectively ignores the biology of human learning.
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"When saving money, time, or resources become the grounds upon which it requires students to do things, how can we not expect students to respond with their own approaches being efficient or doing so with a sense of apathy."
Apathies and Artifices in Education
Part 1 of piecing a few things togther...
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"When we’re thinking about how we’re helping, we can encourage students to do the work not just because we’ve forced them to (which is hard now anyway) but because they know why they should."
A human centered model for discussing AI in assessment – Dave’s Educational Blog
i’ve been playing around with this model for a while now, and i thought I might write it up and see what people have to say about it. I don’t deny that artificial intelligence, in whatever brand you…
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"Students are jeering at a technology they use daily and have come to associate with a thinner education, a narrower set of career prospects, and a creeping doubt about their own competence."
Students hate AI, and they can't stop using it
The booing kicked off before Gloria Caulfield could finish her sentence. At the University of Central Florida’s College of Arts and Humanities graduation on May 8th, real estate exec Caulfiel…
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"Paper prototypes can facilitate testing ideas early in the design process, uncovering problems and addressing them at the source."
Paper Prototyping for Instructional Design
Article examines when to tap prototyping for instructional design and best practices for creating ID prototypes.
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"AI literacy, introduced at this stage, does not need to compete for space in the curriculum later. It becomes part of the foundation on which everything else is built."
Why AI literacy belongs in the first-year experience
Embedding AI literacy early ensures every student gains essential understanding of systems, ethics and responsible use, closing gaps left by optional or uneven provision. Learn how
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"If the human in the loop is putting significant effort into reviewing the student’s work and the AI’s feedback, then what is the purpose of using AI at all?" buff.ly/2vwDCvy
"I’ve been saying all semester that students are getting better at using AI, not in the sense of getting better at prompting it to do more work, but in the sense that they are becoming better judges of what appropriate use looks like and what inappropriate use looks like."
The Time My Students Used AI in Their Final Reflections – and I Liked It!
This is going to be a really funny post, because if you’ve spoken to me lately, I’m really angry about AI these days. It’s not anything new, per se. I mean my attitude has been li…
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"AI does not make us incompetent. But it makes it easy — seductively easy — to breeze past the effortful thinking that builds and maintains competence."
Opinion | AI Gave Me Confidence I Hadn’t Earned
The dangers of outsourcing your thinking to LLMs.
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"Success earned through struggle creates a much more resilient form of confidence and a longer-lasting memory of the experience than a perfect score on a passive quiz."
Beyond Points & Badges: The Psychology of Practice-First Design
Successful gamification is not about making learning "fun"; it is about transforming information into transferable skills.
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"When implemented thoughtfully, it can support engagement, retention, and deeper understanding without overwhelming the learner. Microlearning is not simply about shortening content; it is about redesigning how learning unfolds."
Rethinking attention: what microlearning means for today’s learners
by Alice Pistono, JoVE. Today’s learners engage with information in fundamentally different ways. They move fluidly between formats, platforms, and ideas, but this shift presents a challenge for…
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"Given that AI tools in education rarely, if ever, address the socialization and subjectification functions of education, it seems clear to me that education is still fundamentally needed."
Learning to think in the AI era
Now capable of writing a report or solving a complex equation, generative artificial intelligence is seen by some as a revolutionary tool that will transform the way we learn, while others fear it…
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"They noted that AI does not judge their questions, and so they avoid the anxiety of wondering whether they were asking something “too basic” or “too simple”, unlike when approaching academic staff."
Student AI use is being driven by deteriorating student-staff relationships
Lewis Eves, Gilsun Jeong, Nandor Revesz and Harrison Swinhoe found that if you ask students why they rely on AI, their answers often point to anxieties about engaging with their tutors If you ask…
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"With AI, the technology is no longer just a vehicle — it becomes an author. AI presents the most common societal patterns, which results in margializating some experiences and perspectives."
AI Literacy, Content, and Expertise – Capricious Connections
I have been using some of my current research and ideas to create interactive documents for my classes using Gamma. Instead of translating them into blog posts, I thought I’d just share the Gamma document itself.
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VIDEO: From Creative Commons, speakers reflect on the origins of the open education movement, the milestones that defined its evolution, and the communities that carried it forward across regions and generations.
The Legacy & History of Open Education
The Legacy and History of Open Education panel traces how a set of principled ideas about access, sharing, and collaboration grew into a global movement. The event brings together leaders who have…
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"The danger isn’t that AI will replace writers or render the workshop obsolete. It’s that students are becoming accustomed to bypassing the friction that once revealed their process."
I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan
The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words
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"Agentic AI is very much oriented towards productivity and decreasing friction. Therefore, it is in tension with aspects of learning because learning often depends on tension, deliberation, and friction."
Exploring Agentic AI
Trying NOT to feel overwhelmed, FOMO, or fear with Agentic AI in education
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"Using GenAI effectively in OER creation requires educators to define its scope, determine where it meaningfully supports learners, and assess where a human-centric approach should be prioritized."
Expanding OER with GenAI
Generative artificial intelligence can expand the reach of open educational resources, but educators and institutions need a clear framework for licen
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PODCAST: Neil Selwyn talks to Thomas Corbin (Deakin University) about the future of the written essay in the era of AI, and how we need to rediscover the original spirit of essays as exploratory engagements with thinking.
Does GenAI spell the death of the essay? - Education Technology Society
GenAI is changing the way that schools and universities think about student assessment. We talk to Thomas Corbin (Deakin University) about the future of the written essay in the era of AI, and how we…
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VIDEO: The 2026 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report: Teaching and Learning Edition has been published this week. In this video, authors of the report talk about what's covered in the report.
The 2026 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report: Teaching and Learning Edition
Higher education is at a turning point—defined by pressure, disruption, and possibility. The 2026 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report: Teaching and Learning Edition highlights a sector navigating declining…
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VIDEO: EDUCAUSE talks to campus leaders on priorities related to generative AI and teaching and learning.
Teaching and Learning with AI: Three Priorities | EDUCAUSE Exchange
Generative artificial intelligence is pushing teaching and learning away from a model centered on producing answers and academic artifacts and toward one that places greater weight on process,…
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"I have taught and mentored enough trainee teachers to know that they don’t always have the time or skill to appraise materials. And sometimes they just blindly adopt them."
The Danger of Seemingly Plausible AI Images and Videos
A video of Google Omni showing a maths professor at a chalkboard has been released. Here's my deconstruction of why this means educators need to show caution.
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BOOK: From David Wiley, "The Pedagogical Promptbook: Enacting Evidence-based Teaching and Instructional Design Practices with Generative AI"
The Pedagogical Promptbook
Each chapter in this open access book describes the research on an evidence-based practice, the iterative development process the authors used to create a prompt that enacts the practice, the methodology by which the prompt's performance was evaluated, the results of the evaluation, and the full text of the prompt and any accompanying materials. The book is licensed CC BY, meaning everyone, everywhere can freely copy, adapt, and use the prompts to improve teaching and learning.
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PODCAST: Neil Selwyn talks to Professor Louise Mifsud about the growing interest in academia around critical digital literacies.
Digitally empowered students? - Education Technology Society
How can students and teachers be supported to get the most out of living with digital tech? Prof. Louise Mifsud (Oslo Met) is leading a new project supporting students’ critical digital literacy. We…
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"Since AI, we have have a lot of anecdotal reporting of cheating. But we do not have a lot of robust evidence of whether cheating has increased over time." buff.ly/mFvKVJL
Does AI mean more uni students are plagiarising their work?
A new study shows most university students who copy from AI are also plagiarising in other ways.
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