New: Podcast S1E1: Academic Integrity in the Age of AI
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As an educator, what do you do when AI can now complete your prior assignments? In this episode, Jennifer Maddrell, PhD, shares how testing and redesigning her own assignment changed her approach to academic integrity in the age of AI. She frames it as a design challenge that educators have professional judgment to tackle.
This episode explores five design questions to help educators explore academic integrity as a learning experience design challenge, not a policing problem:
- Is your assignment AI-vulnerable?
- Are you assessing the product or the process of learning?
- What does this assignment require that AI can’t easily replicate?
- How clear are your expectations for AI use?
- What does your approach to academic integrity signal to students about classroom culture?
Jennifer also walks through how she redesigned her own literature review without banning AI or using detection software. She concludes with what surprised her along the way: “I started feeling like I was teaching again.”
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Thank you for following along. I’m excited to explore AI alongside you.
– Jennifer