Internet giants including Google, LinkedIn and X have been urged to block adverts for contract cheating websites by the Global Academic Integrity Network (Gain), an international alliance of higher education regulators.
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Survey of more than 3,400 workers at 28 Australian unis has found that very few are using generative AI to relieve them from routine tasks, while its application to pedagogy is largely confined to teaching students about AI rather than using AI to teach. timeshighereducation.com/news/ai-potent…
For those in USS, if haven’t already checked out how much your pay packet will go up by in January, please do 🤓.
Further details and a link to the contribution calculations can be found here:
ucu.org.uk/article/13399/…
A new post has just been added to the Academic Support Librarians' blog.
Read all about it: Library summer opening and changes to service libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/asl/?p=563
SOAS University has published a guide for their students on using generative AI & Chat GBT for essays. “DO Use it as a starting point for an essay question” but “DON’T Generate a whole assignment and simply hand it in” soas.ac.uk/sites/default/…
@EdinburghUni this exchange is being shown to global audiences.
I suggest you make a statement - this weekend - calling on @UCEA1 to resolve this within the next week. Stand up for your students please.
@BBCNews#EdinburghUniversity
AN UPDATE
I will be on @BBCr4today tomorrow at 7:40am with a member of Edinburgh University leadership.
Then @TimesRadio at 8:20am.
I’m looking forward to it 🙂
More than 40 leading scientists have resigned en masse from the editorial board of a top science journal in protest at what they describe as the ‘greed’ of publishing giant Elsevier theguardian.com/science/2023/m…
You can find full information about all the study spaces available to you on the Study Space website. This includes information on extra study spaces in the Central area and King's Buildings for the examination period🔗ed.ac.uk/is/study-space#Exams#StudySpace
Worried you'll struggle to find space on campus to study for your exams? Fear not! From Sat 8 April - Fri 26 May extra study spaces will be made available->edin.ac/3ZJbj1i **New for 2023: extra spaces at KB (Ashworth lecture theatre 1) from Mon 24 April** #exam#revision
The Sign In to DiscoverEd issue has now been resolved 🥳 Users will be able to sign in to DiscoverEd to access their account, make requests, etc. We're sorry for any inconvenience this has caused.
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