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How do #EducationFocused academics fit into the Higher Ed ecosystem, career pathways and reward and recognition structures? If you're in Australian HE, come and contribute to this new Teaching / Education Focused Network at 2pm 1st August, online. linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Researchers have warned universities to prepare for an explosion in cheating after an audit of assessment tasks from an engineering school found more than 1,000 solutions on the Chegg homework-help service. timeshighereducation.com/news/researche…

For those who missed today’s Essay is Dead/Long Live The Essay Workshop at UNSW teaching commons I present to you ‘The AI Wheel of Death’.

The National Student Ombudsman would make it harder to maintain academic freedom and the integrity of assessment. andrewnorton.net.au/2024/09/18/the…

IT & engineering are defying a weak overall bachelor degree commencing market. Science is having its long overdue correction. education.gov.au/higher-educati…

With Senate hearings for the international student bill now over (probably!), here are my suggestions for making it less bad, even with a ALP+Lib majority for provider-level caps. andrewnorton.net.au/2024/10/02/mak…

Australia’s higher education regulator has taken US homework help site Chegg to court, claiming multiple breaches of a 2020 anti-cheating law, less than a month after the company reportedly launched its own court action against the regulator. timeshighereducation.com/news/chegg-acc…

Kane Murdoch We need to bring students, learning and assessment back into the classroom. The digital push is the problem - it can't provide the solution

Academic ironies

2023 Student Experience Survey is finally out. Post-COVID satisfaction recovery continues, but not back to where it was. qilt.edu.au/surveys/studen…

Fascinating data here: only 30% of students have had an interaction with another student on campus outside of classroom activity. We have to accept that *we* have failed to maintain the social experience of university life. I think this is a root cause of many other problems.

Tour of Dr David C. Kellermann digital teaching space, pedagogy of kindness workshop this afternoon and free ice cream available! Last day on campus UNSW Education & Student Experience today and it’s been another super one! Tourist day tomorrow if anyone has recommendations

Soon an ‘AI student agent’ could complete an asynchronous online course autonomously. This isn’t just about using ChatGPT for essays; it’s about handling all course activities from logging into an LMS, submitting assignments w.o any learner intervention. bit.ly/4hmjNW5

Because up/down is an Eulerian (spatial absolute) frame whereas left/right is a Lagrangian (body-relative) frame. Let's make both frames Eulerian: my head points to the sky and my right hand points North. In the mirror image, do my skyward and Northward gestures hold? Yes.

Always going to repost this kind of sentiment because universities are abandoning expertise in favour of skills. Skills advocates have poisoned our disciplines and undermined the rich expertise that was once found in our universities

Neal Geach Wayne Bradshaw Kane Murdoch Dr David C. Kellermann There've been some studies done on the correlation between student satisfaction and student learning. There is essentially none. Some good teachers are entertaining. Others are boring. Likewise bad teachers.

No meta-cognition without cognition. If you don't know anything, you can't think anything. ChatGPT and google can't do the thinking for you. Never could.

If you think you are smarter than the previous generation... 50 years ago the owners manual of a car showed you how to adjust the valves. Today it warns you not to drink the contents of the battery.