A senior HE director today: ‘in future HE will be technology and process-led, not academic-led’.
So what, exactly, is the point of universities beyond them being a cash machine for senior managers?
Our eternal shame.
We need to re-energise independent learning, and demonstrate there are consequences for failing to learn. This is their education, not ours, as such.
But removing unnecessary friction of discomfort should be a good thing! The other thing is that we replaced independent student learning with (relatively) hand fed assessment tasks, like the ones you hated.
One way of thinking about it is to have spectrum of these higher stakes assessments- a greater proportion of oral discussions to sit down exams than is current, for example, stretches the range. But at the end of the day, student comfort is not a reason to collapse standards.
Less assessmebt, but observed assessment, works. Students actually learning for their own reasons, rather than being force-fed assessment works
Massively overrated. Absolutely negligible would be my professional opinion.
Yep.
Euripides trousers, Eumendides trousers.
Now is the time when we dance.
*Dances germanically*
When we add grades the grades become the purpose.
But it's loaded into the curriculum...
Agree with the former, and rhe first part of the last sentence. But the second part is incorrect. Ai is just turbo contract cheating, and academia generally failed at proving that at anything like the scale it occurs at
You'll throw out rye grading curve!
Oh we've been there for 10 or 20 years.
Truth.
I feel quite seen
It seems to me that the foundational 'wrong turn' in education was the increasing rhetoric from universities themselves and their supporters that the primary value of a university education was increased earning power.
That leads pretty directly to this place we're in now.
Absolutely!
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Students are Flanders' mum in this instance. I dunno who is playing the desk like gene krupa
Haha, fair cop guv.
Stress is persistently treated as if its entirely generated by actions that unis take, and not actions students take.
I'm very publicly against the use of ai detectors, but I might suggest that most of the stress here is because students are using AI to complete assessments, en masse, let's be real.
It's the same stress with exams- "I've done nothing and I'm all put of ideas."
Save me the Helen Lovejoy schtick
Seriously, fuck substack.
"large language models such as ChatGPT were consistently advising women to ask for lower salaries than men in recruitment processes,... AI tools already in use by more than half of England’s councils were downplaying women’s medical conditions, potentially resulting in unequal care"
I think that's doing a real disservice to all of the other avatars of evil who just happen not to be pdf files as well.
