@tbertramgallant.bsky.social
Experienced higher Ed ethics consultant & practitioner. All posts are my opinion & not my employer's. Co-Author of The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI (3/11/25). #Leguminati #integritymatters
Hard and soft covers in my hands!! A nice treat to come home to after the International Center for Academic Integrity conference! David Rettinger and I are Looking forward to sharing these with others! Thanks again to @oupress.bsky.social for making this happen.
😆😁😅🤣😂🤭 Chegg "argues that Google's AI Overviews unfairly retain traffic that would typically go to Chegg...harming students by reducing access to step-by-step educational resources". In the suit, Chegg calls itself an "education provider".
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"the shocking event occurred...after a group of students objected to others copying answers during their exam. This led to a heated argument that spiraled out of control" with gun shots leading to 1 dead & 1 injured.
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Next month, OU Press will publish "The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI" by @tbertramgallant.bsky.social and David A. Rettinger.
For a sneak peek, here is an insightful author interview with the @edsurge.com podcast.
www.edsurge.com/news/2025-01...
New headlines: “Trump Threatens to Deport International Students & Scholars Who Protested the War in Gaza” & “Trump Admin Walked Back a Funding Freeze. Higher Ed Remains Unsettled.” Do we not get that the pt is fear, uncertainty, helplessness & resigned withdrawal? Don’t take the bait.
again, from another higher ed news rag - "Higher Ed Alarmed by Trump’s Plan to Freeze Federal Grants". Our lack of critical thinking, listening, forecasting, & proactive actions will be the downfall of democracy, which can only thrive with an educated populace. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
"‘Institutional Destruction': A Federal-Funding Pause Sent Shockwaves Through Higher Ed". Seriously? If you had been paying attention to the campaign and Project 2025, which higher education leaders should have been, you should NOT be shocked about this move. www.chronicle.com/article/a-fe...
In case you have 30 minutes to spare and you're interested in the impact of GenAI on teaching, learning, and degree integrity, check out this podcast.
www.accreditationinsights.com/gallant/
Very excited for our book to come out on March 11th! If you want to explore the book with others, including me and David (my co-author), then you can consider joining the @perusall.com event at www.perusall.com/events/the-o...
I worry that this quote represents the majority of faculty. Lack of experience with AI tools means they have misunderstandings of what they are and how they work, and yet they "let" students use them in their courses. I swear that HE institutions will be the cause of their own demise.
UofM Prof: "he lets students in his courses use GenAI because...it’s impossible to prevent or detect...[he] himself has never used ChatGPT, but relies on Microsoft Word’s auto-correction & search engines like Google Scholar & finds those comparable."
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I feel for all professors who discover cheating in their classes and are disappointed in their students. Maybe even angry. I get it. But wow. This is not how I would recommend professors respond to suspected cheating!
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Thanks @cbc-news.bsky.social for talking to me about the impact of GenAI on student learning in higher education. youtu.be/2gKFrrB-uxI sharing in case it’s helpful to others.
2nd follow-up: prof explains her decision frees up class time for active learning. A Princeton prof argues it furthers the "commercialization of education." The next legal question: since the AI "text" was created from her lectures, which were on the texts she used to assign, who owns the copyright?
But also so good!
follow-up: replacing tenure faculty with adjuncts was a critical strategy in HE industrialization. As
@biblioracle.bsky.social says in a new piece: the adoption of AI by tenured faculty amplifies this pattern of adjunctification, but this time, their actions will likely put themselves out of work.
Knowing that we have long ago solved the question of "why students cheat", I get so dispirited when HE "news" outlets take money from for-profits to exclaim they've solved the mystery for us. Thanks private company, but I don't need you to "crack the code" on why students cheat. #todaysIHEnews
we’ve been on this path for a while, so this is the impact of AI that I’ve been worried about. Our industrialized model of HE will not evolve in the face of AI. Instead, it will use AI to further entrench industrialization.
The "publish or perish" ecosystem in HE has struck again: researchers suspected of faking reviews to get published. Corruption can run deep in all organizations, but the education & research sides of HE need to take a close, deep look at the systemic structures that encourage unethical conduct.
An update on the high school lawsuit involving GenAI & academic integrity - the judge finds in favor of the school. "Judge Levenson noted that...existing plagiarism policies if communicated, can be sufficient to address improper use."
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Thank you. I needed to hear this. Worrying so much about the next 4+ years isn’t fruitful and can be quite harmful. Focusing on what I bring to life is both positively proactive and energizing!
People will cheat, that's a given. But for the cheating to be this successful for so long is Derek Newton's point - if educational institutions and licensing organizations aren't catching cheating, it's because they're intentionally not looking. #integritymatters #testingintegrity
the would-be teachers cheated through college & didn't have the knowledge to pass the exam; proctors aren't sufficiently paid & thus more amenable to bribing; people don't see the relationship between the exam & "good teaching" and so don't take it seriously; to just name a few.
Revealing piece in the CheatSheet today about corruption within the teacher certification process. A #contractcheating provider and proctor were in on it & made big money as a result. Why did it happen? So many possible explanations:
The solutions in this piece are just a tweak to 20th C higher ed. Instead, HE institutions can truly meet 21st C needs by moving away from a disciplinary-based model to a competency-based model of education. Active, engaged learning with a focus on skills is what humans need in an artificial world.
