News and views about philosophy, the academic profession, academic freedom, intellectual culture, and other topics. The world’s most popular philosophy blog, since 2003.
To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…
Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…
The discussion here assumes an institutional context where returning to supervised in-person assessment is at least theoretically feasible, a reasonable…
Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…
Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.
I see this question as a bit naïve. There is metadata on every document created by a modern word processor…
There’s a simple way to test. Open a pre-2022 essay and copy-and-paste it into a new file.
I broached this topic a couple of weeks ago, but I'm wondering whether any readers have heard about any contingency plans or discussions at their institutions related to the question of, "What happens in the fall?" No need to use your name, but please include a valid e-mail address in case I need to follow up with questions (your e-mail and identity will not be disclosed).
At Georgetown, at least in the business school, we've been told to start planning for running virtual in the fall. We are probably going to push our MBA introductory late summer session back, condense it, and move some of it to the fall. We created a task force to help improve online pedagogy. We aren't as of now expecting to be virtual in the fall, but we are planning for it so that it does happen, we can do it better.
At my university the president has said he wants 25% more online classes offered next fall, since he presumes that students will want to remain online either because of concerns about social distancing or because they will have enjoyed the emergency online classes they're taking this semester. We all need to be concerned, I think, about the possibility of universities using this emergency to move much more into online instruction because we "already developed the online class." Our faculty senate is drafting a letter right now saying that the university should refer to this current semester's classes as "emergency remote instruction" rather than online, for whatever that's worth.
Online course section offerings for the fall have been increased by about 50% and initiatives for improving faculty competence with online delivery have been made a priority.
A peer at another institution reports talk of school beginning 2-3 weeks early in the fall, presumably to allow an extra cushion for getting courses done before cold and flu season sets in as well as other contingencies that could arise.
—–
KEYWORDS:
Primary Blog
Leave a Reply