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Instructors Rush to Do ‘Assignment Makeovers’ to Respond to ChatGPT

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EdSurge talked with professors in a variety of disciplines to dig into what they’re trying as they teach summer classes or prepare for the fall. The race to outsmart artificial intelligence is on as educators try to prevent the coming semester from devolving into, as one professor put it, a “ homework apocalypse.”

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Will Teachers Listen to Feedback From AI? Researchers Are Betting on It

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Demszky is an assistant professor in education data science at the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University, and she’s part of an expanding group of academics feeding classroom audio to large language models to generate automated feedback for teachers. Mandi Macias has personal experience with this kind of evolution.

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The mathematics behind medicine

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Biostatisticians, such as Professor Sumithra Mandrekar and Professor Jay Mandrekar at Mayo Clinic in the US, are behind every medical advance, as they use their statistical skills and knowledge to bring real-world benefits to every field of healthcare. Professor Sumithra J. Some universities offer degrees in biostatistics.

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

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Differential treatment is an example of how economic theories can shape public policies and individual’s opportunities. Regardless of whether differential treatment is considered fair, the efficiency rationale gives researchers and policymakers another way to look at how and why public policies should consider socio-economic factors.

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Bias, assumptions and emotions: why we think what we think

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Finding out how this process works – and how we can use this awareness to make better decisions – is at the heart of cognitive science. At The University of Melbourne in Australia, Professor Andrew (Andy) Perfors is studying the nature of bias and other features of cognition, and even applying these findings to machine learning.

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How can we make future places healthier spaces?

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Published: Professor Richard Harper , based at Lancaster University in the UK, is the principal investigator of a project called the Future Places Centre. This project is investigating how computing, the internet of things and data science can generate information that people can use to make their future places healthier.

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Plugging in: directly linking the brain to a computer

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In recent years, BCIs have moved from science fiction to something that could have real potential. At the University of Technology , Sydney, Australia, Professor Chin-Teng Lin is on the frontline of pioneering the development of such systems. Professor Chin-Teng (CT) Lin works at the University of Technology Sydney.