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Old 09-25-2024, 08:13 PM
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Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy View Post
Talked with a PhD friend who used to teach at UMASS undergraduates.
He has no desire to read and grade papers anymore, and professors who do grade papers, have to trick the students to catch them using AI. and then run them through plagarism software.

There is a book about this, "The Death of Expertise", by Tom Nichols, a former US Naval war school professor and legislative aid.

And the world keeps moving forward somehow!
Professor grade papers? Thought under post doctoral graduates more less teach class under the guidelines of the professor?