TEACHx 2024

Cheating is once again a hot topic in higher education, as the sudden introduction of generative AI sparks fears among faculty and Deans that students will take advantage. But cheating can only exist in a competitive learning environment where the myth of meritocracy leads us to believe that some people deserve to succeed, and some do not, and that students should be ranked, sorted, and assessed relative to their peers, and based on performance. What would it look like to build learning communities where academic integrity, and not rules and consequences, are the foundation? In this talk, Jackson Bartlett calls for a paradigm shift in our approaches to "cheating" on campus. Carefully dissecting the colonial frameworks of education underpinning dominant approaches to academic integrity, he then carves out alternative rooted in trust, connection, and assessing for learning, providing concrete strategies for listeners drawn from the latest research and years of critically reflective teaching.