Prof Cath Ellis

A lovely surprise. If anyone wants to read the paper, it’s open access. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks for the commendation.

Yes. We should start with stopping. If something is futile, trying to do it harder doesn’t make it any less futile.

Sydney Uni’s U-turn on AI is pragmatic teaching Australian universities have been wringing their hands over the tsunami of artificial intelligence tools swamping tertiary education. The University of Sydney has taken a surprising step.

Helpful opinion from the SMH today www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Sydney Uni students allowed to use AI in radical reversal of cheating policy The plan, to be phased in next year, will mean students won’t be banned from using AI on homework or assignments.

Once again great reporting from Daniella in the SMH www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

YouTube video by TEQSAGov Generative AI and reflective writing

They do - and this is an excellent resource that explains how they do this. youtu.be/e_PMfpcvlpQ

Uni boss’ bold plan to slash university fees and end $50,000 arts degrees The plan would cost the government $1.7 billion a year and result in the cost of an arts degree falling from $50,000 to $28,000.

George Williams talking absolute sense. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Fully on brand at choir practice tonight.

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It is if it has no weighting and is a purely formative self-test opportunity to support student learning.

The educational integrity enforcement pyramid: a new framework for challenging and responding to student cheating Current approaches used by educational institutions to address the problem of student cheating are not working. This is because the discourse of academic integrity that currently dominates is, on i...

New paper alert - the Educational Integrity Enforcement Pyramid. Learning from history and from elsewhere to find a new approach to the challenging problem of student cheating. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I’ve never used a drop spindle so am of no help at all. There is certainly a lot to learn. I’m at the stage of being able to make knit-able yarns but I figure out what to knit with I get rather than being able to make a yarn to pre-determined requirements.

I tried learning (on a wheel not a drop spindle) from YouTube but in the end took a class at my local guild. Now I have the basic skill I can pick up things from videos but I needed that foundation in real time with an expert to get started.

C is blurrier than B but clear overlap.

Prof Phill Dawson talking about the Swiss Cheese model in front of an icon of Swiss cheese.

#BelieveInTheCheese

‘Publish or perish’: Why Australian unis are stuck in a rankings chasing cycle Australia’s chief scientist says the way research success is measured is not fit for purpose and has created incentives that reward quantity over quality.

More focus on the perverse incentives driving research misconduct. www.smh.com.au/national/pub...

Sounds like research misconduct oversight might be getting serious in Oz. www.smh.com.au/national/uni...