Academic Integrity in the Age of AI
James Lang, educator and author of Cheating Lessons, shares course design practices that improve student learning while reducing the incentives to cheat.
Academic Integrity in the Age of AI
James Lang, educator and author of Cheating Lessons, shares course design practices that improve student learning while reducing the incentives to cheat.
By some estimates, 75 percent of students admit to cheating at least once in their college careers. With ChatGPT offering new avenues for unwelcome shortcuts, it may be easy for educators to feel deflated. Yet research suggests we have more control over this issue than we might think.
According to Dr. James Lang, educator and author of Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty, students who engage in academically dishonest behavior are often responding to pressures in the learning environment that nudge them toward cheating. What’s striking is that the course design principles shown to minimize cheating actually follow the same formula cognitive theorists champion for increasing student engagement and learning.
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- The common course design practices that lead to academic dishonesty
- Teaching strategies that reduce the incentive and opportunity to cheat
- How low stakes assessments build confidence and help students make better study decisions
- About the role of transparency and motivation in promoting academic integrity
Cheating Lessons
Cheating Lessons suggests a thought-provoking remedy to academic dishonesty: our ability to foster intrinsic motivation, promote mastery, and instill the self-efficacy students need for deep learning.
About the Speaker
James M. Lang, PhD, is the author of six books, including Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It and Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning. He also writes a monthly column on teaching and learning for The Chronicle of Higher Education. A dynamic and highly sought-after public speaker, Lang has delivered conference keynotes and workshops on teaching at more than a hundred colleges, universities, and high schools in the United States and abroad.