You'll learn from it. (which is the purpose of universities, rather than grades or papers anyway)

In this case though, it's more because the system clearly doesn't work, so something has to be done eiher way.

They (schools) can't fight AI forever. It will over burden them with slop no matter what they try. It's futile to think that it can be detected, f.i. if the students put the AI in speech mode and writes down the answers in hand etc.

It's better to rethink the entire purpose of what they're trying to achieve. Hundreds of pages of written paper probably isn't it to begin with.

They're trying to educate: To get knowledge into the head of students. A written paper won't really show what's inside the head of the student regardless of it being written by the student, their parents, Indian fiver hirees, AI or simply paid to pass.

IMO the validition process has to be rethought, and it's only good that AI has broken the system.

Good luck repairing a ripped out 864F ribbon cable with 10 minutes of YouTube tuition.

I remember when copywriters went through this exact same scenario like a year and a half ago.

Just make finals and exams oral, like interviews.

I'm from before the era of take-home tests. We still had homework though which is still an awful way to do things, so maybe AI will motivate the educators to do something better.

The point of an essay is that a person may, accurately and succinctly, convey a complex idea to a stranger across an ocean using only the written word. Which is half the point of literacy. Where I to hire a college grad who couldn't compose an email about a complex, nuanced subject, i would think real hard about hiring any alums of theirs.

Knowing stuff isn't enough. You have to be able to present it in a communicable fashion.

Haven't courts ruled that you can't copyright AI generated work? Couldn't we just copy her slop word for word and re-sell it?

I love that thing but it needs to be mounted sideways. For killing zombies. Yeah, that's it.

In the pre-AI age, I think take home tests were fine. However they were generally much harder than a similar in person exam on the same material. I remember one professor gave the advice "if you are given the option between a take home exam and an in person classroom exam, always take the latter. Since the former doesn't have as tight of a time limit as the latter does, and will almost always be far more challenging" (or something to that effect)

Fair enough. Although if the issue is the exam proctors not actually proctoring the exam, the medium in which it's taken won't matter.

At least with computer tests there's software that lets the proctor see every screen at once. But cellphones are an issue either way.

The best solution would be to have testing services handle it. But would cost way too much for any university to do.

Seems insane to not assist people learning. Reaching people you otherwise would not is a good thing.You WANT more people in the work force who can understand concepts. Who gives a shit how they demonstrate it or if they need an accommodation?

Supporting people through their weakness can help them find or reinforce their Strengths. That is absolutely something education should strive for.

Take home tests? I didn't read that in the article, take home essays yes. Which is just normal homework

Why is that?

I wish it was that simple, I really do, but when did handwriting get dropped from the curriculum? Ok slightly hyperbolic, that was the US, still on the UK curriculum. But the importance of it has dropped dramatically.

Even 10 years ago the legibility of student answers was sufficiently awful we were doing exam technique training for students and it has degraded substantially since then.

I think even many people who are willfully ignorant can be reached, but things have to kind of line up for it to work. The odds of that happening in an educational system that has been gutted are much lower, which is probably what the assholes doing the gutting are counting on.

It's basically mandatory for HDR, but useful and somewhat common for normal/SDR as well.

E-ink for PC screens is still not practical, too slow.

I think most people just don't engage analytically no matter what tools you give them. My sister & I went to the same exact schools and she ended up a homeschooling anti-vaxer.

The student is only part of the equation: If they were never given the tools to learn to begin with, that's on society more than it is the student. I do agree though: One can obtain a degree without actually having received an education.

Blaming neurodivergent people for this is a chickenshit move TBF.

I am from the US where universities are also chronically underfunded by the government (an uneducated populace is easier to manipulate), but still pisses me off.

I see potential in the layout and structure of FreeBSD but slop is just going to give it a tainted image unfortunately. As I think it does have a really unique premise in terms of everything, how holistically FreeBSD is developed. I might have to play around with 9front instead, as it is a thing which has some elements of FreeBSD (it was formerly known as Plan9 before the plan failed).

For me it's insane that they were allowed to take the test at home in the first place. Trusting in honor isn't ever going to work.

From memory it appears to be a connection issue, as if the usb port has gone bad, or has been stopped by garmin (tin foil hat there). I haven't bothered trying to update it for a couple of years, so sometimes it says I am driving through paddocks, and across waterways.

Yeah, assuming they can pass the entrance exams. Can't really have AI take your MCAT for you.

On the other hand, if someone can cheat their way through intro courses and still submit a competitive application with competitive test scores? They're smart enough to get it done.

Those people who I'd do homework for? They usually started failing pretty hard around junior/senior level courses. That's the problem with outsourcing your thinking. Most every professor knows what's up when someone is submitting 100% homework assignments and getting 50-60% when exams roll around.