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New Report Highlights Hidden Costs and Privacy Risks of Digital Courseware for Higher Education Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

How Higher Education Students May Be Forced to Sacrifice Privacy for Digital Learning Tools ,” the report points out that weak privacy protections and vague institutional policies often force students to unknowingly trade personal data for required courseware. Titled “ Paying Twice to Learn?

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Is Grammarly AI? Notre Dame Says Yes

Inside Higher Ed

The rapid introduction of generative AI has created a wild west of policies at colleges, complicating the use of long-standing editing and writing tools.

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Your AI Policy Is Already Obsolete

Inside Higher Ed

For the past two years, a lot of us have written course, program and university policies about generative artificial intelligence. Our argument is that the integration of AI technology into existing platforms has rendered these frameworks obsolete. Maybe you prohibited AI in your first-year composition course.

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Critical studies of Education and Technology: an invitation to connect

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Neil Selwyn , a Professor at Monash University, Melbourne has invited researchers from around the world to organise and run local academic meetings around the common theme: Problematising education and digital technology . What social harms are we seeing associated with digital technology and educatio n in our locality?

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The Red Pen launches AI tool to help int’l students with application essays

The PIE News

INK follows international and Indian university policies to support students. It blends cutting-edge technology and ethical practices to help students articulate themselves, read the statement. INK complies with university AI policies. But it will never write your essay like other available AI tools, said Mehta.

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AI for everyone – but not everything

HEPI

While LSE has comprehensive policies around when and how students can use GenAI tools and how it should be acknowledged, only a predicted 40% acknowledged AI use in formative assessments in the project. In addition, despite banning uploads, students uploaded a variety of copyrighted materials. Is there a need to evolve them?

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Cross-Campus Approaches to Building a Generative AI Policy

Educause

Particularly for new technologies that disrupt long-standing practices and cultural beliefs, the work of carefully and intentionally developing effective policies can pay significant dividends.

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