The UK's higher education regulator advised schools that it might be time to retire take-home essays and open book exams.

Students are relying on AI so heavily that universities are being forced to fundamentally rethink how they grade their work.

England’s higher education regulator, the Office for Students, is warning universities that they may need to replace traditional take-home essays and open-book exams with supervised assessments that prevent students from relying on artificial intelligence to do their work.

AI-detection tools are too unreliable to consistently determine whether students have used the technology, the OfS said in a report published Wednesday.

  • BozeKnoflook@lemmy.world
    25·
    1 天前

    I once had to do two entire semesters on coding in RPG IV with only pencil and paper. We only got actual access to the school’s AS/400 server after, during the third semester. Kids and their AI slop these days… pfft

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      9 小时前

      I went to India in the early '90s and happened to see a small software shop that had five programmers and one PC. The programmers wrote all their code with pencil and paper and the secretary typed it all into the computer. I want to say that this explains a lot about the quality of offshore code, but it probably doesn’t.

      I myself just caught the tail end of the punch card era. It was actually kinda fun to sit at home with just a stack of cards and create working (hopefully, you wouldn’t know for days) code.

      • 8oow3291d@feddit.dk
        1·
        6 小时前

        I want to say that this explains a lot about the quality of offshore code, but it probably doesn’t.

        If anything, I would imagine that it would encourage the programmers to be more careful. The debug cycles would have been hell, so it would encourage the programmers to fully understand their code, and get it right the first time.