Another exciting paper from our upcoming 'Challenging Cheating' special issue of Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education

⚠️For PhDs who are thinking about jumping ship and diving into industry:

Industry isn't necessarily better than academia.

I have straddled both worlds. Here are 5 MYTHS about academia vs. industry:

Mid 2022 I & others said AI will be writing assignments in a few months. Nobody listened and we got reactive/punitive responses when we were ‘surprised’ by ChatGPT.

Now deepfakes are coming. They will be used in online vivas & remote proctored exams. Will we be surprised again?

This is me doing Lego with my kids. Yes I can help you with this step, but only if you have a spare 10 minutes!

🌟🎖️ Congratulations to Lasse Jensen, Margaret Bearman & David Boud, whose article 'Characteristics of productive feedback encounters in online learning' was commended for our Editors' Choice Award for 2024!

To find out more about the commended articles... …achinginhighereducation.wordpress.com/2024/04/15/edi…

Had a wonderful day with Phillip Dawson David Carless Juuso Henrik Nieminen for the joint symposium “Empowering Feedback for Maximizing Students' Productive Learning in the Digital Age”. Thanks Joy Yang Norman Mendoza @Carol for organizing this amazing event!

It's hard to give up on the idea of AI detection and on our own ability to recognize AI text. It's disturbing to recognize that we can no longer reliably tell. Alternate approaches to academic integrity involve more change. We need to support teacher professional development and…

Royce Sadler must drive an MX5 because I so often come up with cool new ideas only to find he's done them already, sometimes before I was born

Re-evaluating GPT-4's bar exam claims reveals an overestimated 90th-percentile performance. Real stats show a more modest 62nd percentile vs first-timers & 48th among passers. Insightful analysis by Eric Martínez. #AI #LegalTech #GPT4 #AI accuracy. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

My hairdresser (don't laugh I go to one every few years) just posted on his feed that people should stop coming in with AI-generated images and asking for hair like them. Curly hair is wild and won't do what AI thinks it can do!

I disagree that the 'assessment focus' on AI was wrong. I think some of the approaches taken were, but improvements to assessment were (and still are) urgently needed.