Been a while since I checked out this place. I might make some more appearances here in future. Looks to have grown a bit!
Ripper piece.
Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?
Agreed. I didn't finish my first PhD attempt, and that was in no small part due to the fact that I had to wrestle with being expected to treat it as a full time job, while not earning enough money to pay my rent and bills. In the end, all the work I had to do gave me more options than the PhD did.
From @deadder.bsky.social in support of @anntelnaes.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public.
He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.
Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.
ENAI first start up fair – CURSIVE recording
We had the honor of participating in the first ENAI "Startup Fair" with some friends, competitors, and colleagues. It was a fun event coordinated by the European Network for Academic Integrity which featured some of the newest and most progressive…
THIS is how it’s done, folks.
Weee a new banger from King Stingray:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LQH...
#BlakExcellence
I think it works better with programmatic approaches, because the important assessments should be pushed further up the Blooms Tax and have more 'correct answers' as a result. A greater variety of versions of success = a greater variety of paths to that success.
If you choose to use 'low cost' and 'efficient' assessment tasks (online MCQ for example), you must accept one of the two following costs. 1) That you'll need to spend a bunch on integrity breach investigations. 2) That there will be a long term erosion of the value of the degrees you offer.
I did the thing and deleted Xitter (pronounced with a 'sh'). I'll be exclusively here now.
If you assume that the 'minority' of students who outsource assessment one way or another is a single digit percentage, you are probably wrong. If you have built assessment around this assumption (e.g. a fully online test), then I have some bad news about the validity of that assessment.
Te Pāti Māori really not taking this bullshit lying down, what a haka
And perhaps those who don't want Māori traditions and practices in public life are in the wrong bloody country
Hey #AcademicIntegrity folks. It's that time of year where I pipe up and write a blog post for @ccguerilla.bsky.social's blog. This time, I'm grumbling about 'cost effective' assessment, and it not quite meaning what most people think it means:
www.guerillawarfare.net/post/cost-ef...
I'll be working on some stuff to differentiate an AI agent from a human student - I already readily differentiate students from human agents (contract cheating providers). Watch this space.
Talk to @ccguerilla.bsky.social about it. He recently did one for #AcademicIntegrity
If you think your #assessment can't be completed by ChatGPT, you might need to step into a student's shoes and get a little creative... https://buff.ly/3YFVZ7j #artificialintelligence #aieducation
If any of you good #AcademicIntegrity peeps are at TEQSA, come say g'day at the schmoozing event this evening.
Ding, ding, ding. No need to carry out assurance of learning with the test. Suddenly cost effective again.
Created an #Academicintegrity starter pack. If I've missed anyone or you'd like to be added, do holler.
go.bsky.app/R2x6VCv
So here's the thing. Is a self-marking online test actually 'cost effective' if it is going to cost your institution tens of thousands of dollars in staff time to check for, and then investigate, and decide, the inevitable bucket of integrity breaches?
The whole internet right now
How likely is it that the late Dame Maggie Smith met Thatcher at some point? If likely, then:
0) Me
1) Dame Maggie Smith
2) That demonspawn Thatcher
3) Ronald Reagan
Well, Xitter (pronounced 'shitter') has certainly lived up to its new name. I'll be hanging out here for #AcademicIntegrity conversations going forward.
I haven't so far. This is the only alternative platform I like so far, so I hope it doesn't go Twittery. If I'm walking away from Musk, I won't walk to Threads because Zuckerberg is a gronk too. I find Mastodon too clunky.
I see your smart watch and raise you this badboy.
