Sat.Dec 14, 2024

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The data dark ages

Wonkhe

Without any fuss, large survey instruments are starting to fail.

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‘I received a first but it felt tainted and undeserved’: inside the university AI cheating crisis

The Guardian - Higher Education

More than half of students are now using generative AI, casting a shadow over campuses as tutors and students turn on each other and hardworking learners are caught in the flak. Will Coldwell reports on a broken system The email arrived out of the blue: it was the university code of conduct team. Albert, a 19-year-old undergraduate English student, scanned the content, stunned.

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Weekend Reading: Keeping professional development continuous for researchers

HEPI

By John Miles, Founder and CEO of Inkpath. Writing in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health , Iker Sainz, Josu Solabarrieta and Isabel Rubio investigate students tendency to drop out of sports and exercise when they go to university. They conclude that: Lack of time (or dedication to other activities unrelated to physical activity) and fatigue seem to be the main factors for dropping out.