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student_cooperation: Student cooperation (2012)
Network of cooperation among students in the "Computer and Network Security" course at Ben-Gurion University, in 2012. Nodes are students, and edges denote cooperation between students while doing their homework. The graph contains three types of links: Time, Computer, Partners.
This network has 185 nodes and 360 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multigraph, Unweighted

"So often in the study of religion, we rely on published literary materials. This class is really intended to help students—and to help myself—think about the full social, economic, and political life into which what we call religion emerges. Religion is never absent from those very concrete connections.”
—YDS Prof Nasrallah on the travel seminar to Greece and Türkiye for her course

Trump's War on International Students (Washington Monthly)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/11/trumps-war-on-international-students/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p26#a250611p26

Understanding Self-Regulated Learning Behavior Among High and Low Dropout Risk Students During CS1: Combining Trace Logs, Dropout Prediction and Self-Reports
Denis Zhidkikh, Ville Isom\"ott\"onen, Toni Taipalus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09178

Understanding Self-Regulated Learning Behavior Among High and Low Dropout Risk Students During CS1: Combining Trace Logs, Dropout Prediction and Self-Reports
The introductory programming course (CS1) at the university level is often perceived as particularly challenging, contributing to high dropout rates among Computer Science students. Identifying when and how students encounter difficulties in this course is critical for providing targeted support. This study explores the behavioral patterns of CS1 students at varying dropout risks using self-regulated learning (SRL) as the theoretical framework. Using learning analytics, we analyzed trace logs a…

SRLAgent: Enhancing Self-Regulated Learning Skills through Gamification and LLM Assistance
Wentao Ge, Yuqing Sun, Ziyan Wang, Haoyue Zheng, Weiyang He, Piaohong Wang, Qianyu Zhu, Benyou Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09968

SRLAgent: Enhancing Self-Regulated Learning Skills through Gamification and LLM Assistance
Self-regulated learning (SRL) is crucial for college students navigating increased academic demands and independence. Insufficient SRL skills can lead to disorganized study habits, low motivation, and poor time management, undermining learners ability to thrive in challenging environments. Through a formative study involving 59 college students, we identified key challenges students face in developing SRL skills, including difficulties with goal-setting, time management, and reflective learning…

With fewer than 900 American students in China at a time of unprecedented bilateral tensions,
Chinese classmates continually ask her to explain President Donald Trump’s decisions,
while American friends and family ask her to translate the intricacies of Chinese politics.
https://www.

American students in China face a barrage of questions about Trump
The number of U.S. students in China has plummeted, but those who are there now say it’s more important than ever for Americans to understand the country.

Harvard, Trump admin clash over court protection for foreign students (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/12/harvard-trump-administration-foreign-students-00403417
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p158#a250612p158

Superstudent intelligence in thermodynamics
Rebecca Loubet, Pascal Zittlau, Marco Hoffmann, Luisa Vollmer, Sophie Fellenz, Heike Leitte, Fabian Jirasek, Johannes Lenhard, Hans Hasse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09822

Superstudent intelligence in thermodynamics
In this short note, we report and analyze a striking event: OpenAI's large language model o3 has outwitted all students in a university exam on thermodynamics. The thermodynamics exam is a difficult hurdle for most students, where they must show that they have mastered the fundamentals of this important topic. Consequently, the failure rates are very high, A-grades are rare - and they are considered proof of the students' exceptional intellectual abilities. This is because pattern learning does…

Particle Builder -- Learn about the Standard Model while playing against an AI
Mohammad Attar, Andrew Carse, Yeming Chen, Thomas Green, Jeong-Yeon Ha, Yanbai Jin, Amy McWilliams, Theirry Panggabean, Zhengyu Peng, Lujin Sun, Jing Ru, Jiacheng She, Jialin Wang, Zilun Wei, Jiayuan Zhu, Lachlan McGinness
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.0…

Particle Builder -- Learn about the Standard Model while playing against an AI
Particle Builder Online is a web-based education game designed for high school physics students. Students can play against an AI opponent or peers to familiarise themselves with the Standard Model of Particle Physics. The game is aimed at a high school level and tailored to the International Baccalaureate and the Australian Curriculum. Students from four schools in Canberra took pre/post-tests and a survey while completing a lesson where they played Particle Builder. Students' understanding of …

The proposed College of Arts and Social Sciences changes proposes to merge the School of Music, School of Art and Design and the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies.
It’s also been proposed major degrees such as political science, international relations and public policies would be merged into one degree.
Staff would be expected to re-apply for their jobs and essentially compete for remaining positions.

We won't be silent: ANU students decry proposed College of Arts and Social Sciences 'bloodbath' | Region Canberra
ANU students have described the proposed College of Arts and Social Sciences changes as a

The World of AI: A Novel Approach to AI Literacy for First-year Engineering Students
Siddharth Siddharth, Brainerd Prince, Amol Harsh, Shreyas Ramachandran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08041

The World of AI: A Novel Approach to AI Literacy for First-year Engineering Students
This work presents a novel course titled The World of AI designed for first-year undergraduate engineering students with little to no prior exposure to AI. The central problem addressed by this course is that engineering students often lack foundational knowledge of AI and its broader societal implications at the outset of their academic journeys. We believe the way to address this gap is to design and deliver an interdisciplinary course that can a) be accessed by first-year undergraduate engin…

Can we just dispense with grades already? Universities' rush to adopt LLMs, including providing students free access to more advanced versions, has made whatever grades we give wholly suspect (I wouldn't trust a transcript if I was hiring our students). At the same time, my institution at least has given instructors neither guidance nor support in dealing with the fallout. I am more than happy to teach those who want to learn. If the others want to spend their time querying an AI, so…

student_cooperation: Student cooperation (2012)
Network of cooperation among students in the "Computer and Network Security" course at Ben-Gurion University, in 2012. Nodes are students, and edges denote cooperation between students while doing their homework. The graph contains three types of links: Time, Computer, Partners.
This network has 185 nodes and 360 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multigraph, Unweighted

"Students develop rocket engine powered by beeswax"
#Bees #Rockets
https://techxplor…

Students develop rocket engine powered by beeswax
A group of Kingston University in London engineering students have developed a rocket engine powered by an unusual but highly sustainable energy source—beeswax.

NR4DER: Neural Re-ranking for Diversified Exercise Recommendation
Xinghe Cheng, Xufang Zhou, Liangda Fang, Chaobo He, Yuyu Zhou, Weiqi Luo, Zhiguo Gong, Quanlong Guan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06341

NR4DER: Neural Re-ranking for Diversified Exercise Recommendation
With the widespread adoption of online education platforms, an increasing number of students are gaining new knowledge through Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Exercise recommendation have made strides toward improving student learning outcomes. However, existing methods not only struggle with high dropout rates but also fail to match the diverse learning pace of students. They frequently face difficulties in adjusting to inactive students' learning patterns and in accommodating individuali…

Day 2 of “Rocket 🚀 Camp” with Shelly Fryer! Elementary age students are building foam rockets today. Shelly is “in her happy place” teaching students STEM engineering who are in “The Artemis Generation!”
https://summer.providenceday.org…

MOSAIC-F: A Framework for Enhancing Students' Oral Presentation Skills through Personalized Feedback
Alvaro Becerra, Daniel Andres, Pablo Villegas, Roberto Daza, Ruth Cobos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08634

MOSAIC-F: A Framework for Enhancing Students' Oral Presentation Skills through Personalized Feedback
In this article, we present a novel multimodal feedback framework called MOSAIC-F, an acronym for a data-driven Framework that integrates Multimodal Learning Analytics (MMLA), Observations, Sensors, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Collaborative assessments for generating personalized feedback on student learning activities. This framework consists of four key steps. First, peers and professors' assessments are conducted through standardized rubrics (that include both quantitative and qualitat…

#Queen confusing me by playing the intro to Arnold Layne again. #QueenTheLegendary1975Concert
I think this is the concert I used to use footage from in the seminar where I got my students to make one-note clarinets from cordial bottles and try and match a particular chord in Bohemian Rhapsod…

student_cooperation: Student cooperation (2012)
Network of cooperation among students in the "Computer and Network Security" course at Ben-Gurion University, in 2012. Nodes are students, and edges denote cooperation between students while doing their homework. The graph contains three types of links: Time, Computer, Partners.
This network has 185 nodes and 360 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multigraph, Unweighted

Here's a great short article on the unexpected relationship between #CincodeMayo and democracy in the US:
https://www.the74million.org/article/teach

Cardinals fly 275 students to Washington D.C. for Civic Matters Arizona trip https://www.nfl.com/news/cardinals-fly-275-students-to-washington-d-c-for-civic-matters-arizona-trip

SMART: Simulated Students Aligned with Item Response Theory for Question Difficulty Prediction
Alexander Scarlatos, Nigel Fernandez, Christopher Ormerod, Susan Lottridge, Andrew Lan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05129

SMART: Simulated Students Aligned with Item Response Theory for Question Difficulty Prediction
Item (question) difficulties play a crucial role in educational assessments, enabling accurate and efficient assessment of student abilities and personalization to maximize learning outcomes. Traditionally, estimating item difficulties can be costly, requiring real students to respond to items, followed by fitting an item response theory (IRT) model to get item difficulty estimates. This approach cannot be applied to the cold-start setting for previously unseen items either. In this work, we pr…

The current stage of #AI writing: use AI to humanize AI to trick AI detection.
Or how “semiconductor” turns into a “0.5 conductor.” Brilliant.
Time to rethink the university
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Chinese students are using AI to beat AI detectors
As Chinese universities crack down on AI use, some students report false positives — and a booming industry of work-around tools is emerging.

Structured Prompts, Better Outcomes? Exploring the Effects of a Structured Interface with ChatGPT in a Graduate Robotics Course
Jerome Brender, Laila El-Hamamsy, Kim Uittenhove, Francesco Mondada, Engin Bumbacher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07767

Structured Prompts, Better Outcomes? Exploring the Effects of a Structured Interface with ChatGPT in a Graduate Robotics Course
Prior research shows that how students engage with Large Language Models (LLMs) influences their problem-solving and understanding, reinforcing the need to support productive LLM-uses that promote learning. This study evaluates the impact of a structured GPT platform designed to promote 'good' prompting behavior with data from 58 students in a graduate-level robotics course. The students were assigned to either an intervention group using the structured platform or a control group using ChatGPT…

People on the right side of history don’t do such things. https://mastodon.social/@7sleepersmusic/114636247251864809

An interview with Leah Belsky, OpenAI's VP of Education, as the startup competes with Google and others to offer premium AI tools to universities and students (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/technol…

Inside OpenAI’s Plan to Embed ChatGPT Into College Students’ Lives
OpenAI, the firm that helped spark chatbot cheating, wants to embed A.I. in every facet of college. First up: 460,000 students at Cal State.

Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties
https://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/07/educators-union-rejects-anti-defamation-league-cuts-ties?utm_source=fli…

Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties
The Anti-Defamation League has been a ubiquitous presence in U.S. schools for forty years, pushing curriculum, direct programming, and teacher training into K-12 schools and increasingly into universities, often over the objections of students, parents, and educators. Now, the three million-member National Education Association has finally said no. In July 6 vote, the NEA’s 7,000-member Representative Assembly cut all ties with the ADL.

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 238 nodes and 3755 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

All this brings me back to some text I was writing yesterday for my students, on which I’d appreciate any thoughtful feedback:
❝You can let the computer do the typing for you, but never let it do the thinking for you.
This is doubly true in the current era of AI hype. If the AI optimists are correct (the credible ones, anyway), software development will consist of humans critically evaluating, shaping, and correcting the output of LLMs. If the AI skeptics are correct, then the future will bring mountains of AI slop to decode, disentangle, fix, and/or rewrite. Either way, it is •understanding• and •critically evaluating• code — not merely •generating• it — that will be the truly essential ability. Always has been; will be even more so. •That• is what you are learning here.❞
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I had the pleasure to teach 2nd year #students of #EANS in Mataro in Spain. On efficacy, effectiveness and little bit on #causaleffects. I've been there as a student my…

It’s true that my fellow students are embracing AI – but this is what the critics aren’t seeing https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/29/students-ai-critics-chatgpt-covid-education-system?CMP=Sh…

A connected network for whom?
About a year ago, I helped move some young relatives in and out of Boston, one leaving Chinatown, the other moving in on September 1 (locally, the day when most of the students renting in the area move in; it causes predictably awful traffic and parking problems).  Because of the parking problems, I did most of this help using a bicycle with a 300lb capacity.  

A connected network for whom?
About a year ago, I helped move some young relatives in and out of Boston, one leaving Chinatown, the other moving in on September 1 (locally, the day when most of the students renting in the area …

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
Tags: Soc…

I work not far from where Salford University have their graduation ceremony and honestly I think it might be my favourite day of the year.
Whether it's proud parents looking awkward in posh suits & fancy frocks, or embarrassed students looking awkward in posh suits, fancy frocks and graduation gowns, it's a perfect people watching extravaganza.

@… For the course I had in mind it’s a programming project, and students have admitted using ChatGPT at least for some parts. It didn’t work for everything, though.
So, yes, the point would also be to show that some things actually can’t be accomplished this way.

@… For the course I had in mind it’s a programming project, and students have admitted using ChatGPT at least for some parts. It didn’t work for everything, though.
So, yes, the point would also be to show that some things actually can’t be accomplished this way.

As we approach Commencement, YDS is sharing profiles of some of our graduating students. Like Mary Elizabeth Marquardt ‘25 M.A.R.! #YDS2025 https://divinity.yale.edu/news/graduat

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16613 has been replaced.
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Oral exams in introductory statistics class with non-native English speakers
Oral exams are a powerful tool to assess student's learning. This is particularly important in introductory statistics classes where students struggle to grasp various topics like the interpretation of probability, $p$-values and more. The challenge of acquiring conceptual understanding is only heightened when students are learning in a second language. In this paper, I share my experience administering oral exams to an introductory statistics class of non-native English speakers at a Japanese …

Cardinals fly 275 students to Washington D.C. for Civics Matters Arizona trip https://www.nfl.com/news/cardinals-fly-275-students-to-washington-d-c-for-civics-matters-arizona-trip

Understanding Human-AI Trust in Education
Griffin Pitts, Sanaz Motamedi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09160 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.0…

Understanding Human-AI Trust in Education
As AI chatbots become increasingly integrated in education, students are turning to these systems for guidance, feedback, and information. However, the anthropomorphic characteristics of these chatbots create ambiguity regarding whether students develop trust toward them as they would a human peer or instructor, based in interpersonal trust, or as they would any other piece of technology, based in technology trust. This ambiguity presents theoretical challenges, as interpersonal trust models ma…

"Instead of calculators, we could sit at exams with certain books on our desks, filled with logarithm and trigonometry tables, featuring formulae for algebra, calculus, and geometry. French-speaking Swiss students might remember the ubiquitous “Formulaire et Tables” of the “Commissions romandes de mathématiques, de physique et de chimie”, published by the Éditions du Tricorne, that many generations of Swiss students used during their exams."

Banning, Adopting, Reckoning
Last month, OpenAI, the company (in)famous for their ChatGPT product, released a course called "ChatGPT Foundations for K-12 Educators", an event that has raised more than a few eyebrows, and even some outrage. We must have a serious conversation about the value of a bullshit generator in the context of teaching programming skills to new generations.

The University of Michigan paid over $800,000 to Amerishield,
parent company to a private security company called City Shield.
It was part of a broader
👉 $3 million public‑security budget, which included ⚠️surveillance of pro‑Palestinian student activists.
The university hired plainclothes agents who 💥trailed students into cafés, harassed them, and even staged confrontations,
including faking a disability to falsely accuse them of theft.
City Shield, a p…

US Campuses Have Become the Newest Laboratories for Surveillance Technology
From Gaza to the US, military-grade surveillance tools are being deployed to monitor and punish student dissent.

Is Boston where we start overthrowing the king again?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/us/harvard-university-trump-international-students

Do Students Write Better Post-AI Support? Effects of Generative AI Literacy and Chatbot Interaction Strategies on Multimodal Academic Writing
Yueqiao Jin, Kaixun Yang, Roberto Martinez-Maldonado, Dragan Ga\v{s}evi\'c, Lixiang Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04398

Do Students Write Better Post-AI Support? Effects of Generative AI Literacy and Chatbot Interaction Strategies on Multimodal Academic Writing
Academic writing increasingly involves multimodal tasks requiring students to integrate visual information and textual arguments. While generative AI (GenAI) tools, like ChatGPT, offer new pathways for supporting academic writing, little is known about how students' GenAI literacy influences their independent multimodal writing skills or how chatbot interaction strategies (passive reactive vs. proactive scaffolding) impact learning. This study examined 79 higher education students' multimodal a…

Our museum 5th-grade tours have been going strong for decades. But they don't just benefit elementary school students. #UniversityOfGeorgia students are involved, too. Read more: https://

Medical students fret over the new student loan cap in the 'big, beautiful bill' (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/medical-students-fret-student-loan-cap-big-beautiful-bill-rcna217228
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p157#a250708p157

Teams of #PurdueFortWayne 🐘 students and faculty presented their projects on data science and industrial consulting at the Indiana Data Mine Symposium at #Purdue #WestLafayette

Bryan Kohberger to Plead Guilty to Killing 4 University of Idaho Students | Associated Press
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/kohberger-idaho-students-killed/2025/06/30/id/1217089/

I have to add I had six meetings with students this afternoon and only that one was icky. 💚 students #academicChatter

Google announces 30 Gemini AI tools for educators, like "Gems" which help students on specific subjects, included with Google Workspace for Education accounts (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025…

Google embraces AI in the classroom with new Gemini tools for educators, chatbots for students, and more | TechCrunch
Google will give teachers the ability to create interactive study guides using the AI research tool Notebook LM, along with their classroom materials.

Evaluation of Machine Learning Models in Student Academic Performance Prediction
A. G. R. Sandeepa, Sanka Mohottala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08047 https:…

Evaluation of Machine Learning Models in Student Academic Performance Prediction
This research investigates the use of machine learning methods to forecast students' academic performance in a school setting. Students' data with behavioral, academic, and demographic details were used in implementations with standard classical machine learning models including multi-layer perceptron classifier (MLPC). MLPC obtained 86.46% maximum accuracy for test set across all implementations. Under 10-fold cross validation, MLPC obtained 79.58% average accuracy for test set while for train…

student_cooperation: Student cooperation (2012)
Network of cooperation among students in the "Computer and Network Security" course at Ben-Gurion University, in 2012. Nodes are students, and edges denote cooperation between students while doing their homework. The graph contains three types of links: Time, Computer, Partners.
This network has 185 nodes and 360 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multigraph, Unweighted

Short-Term Gains, Long-Term Gaps: The Impact of GenAI and Search Technologies on Retention
Mahir Akgun, Sacip Toker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07357 https:…

Short-Term Gains, Long-Term Gaps: The Impact of GenAI and Search Technologies on Retention
The rise of Generative AI (GenAI) tools, such as ChatGPT, has transformed how students access and engage with information, raising questions about their impact on learning outcomes and retention. This study investigates how GenAI (ChatGPT), search engines (Google), and e-textbooks influence student performance across tasks of varying cognitive complexity, based on Bloom's Taxonomy. Using a sample of 123 students, we examined performance in three tasks: [1] knowing and understanding, [2] applyin…

Can Contextualized Physics Problems Enhance Student Motivation? Uncovering a Student-Teacher Perception Gap through a Large-Scale Survey
Yajun Wei, Xinting Peng, Yi Zhong, Feipeng Pi, Yanfang Zhai, Lei Bao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05586

Can Contextualized Physics Problems Enhance Student Motivation? Uncovering a Student-Teacher Perception Gap through a Large-Scale Survey
Embedding physics problems unreal-world settings, here termed contextualized physics problems (CPP), is widely believed to foster students' interest, motivation, and learning. However, firm evidence for this claim remains scarce. To explore this issue, we surveyed 868 secondary students and 154 teachers to examine their attitudes toward CPP and investigate whether students and teachers perceive these problems as promoting student interest and motivation in learning physics. The findings reveal …

Exploring LLMs for Predicting Tutor Strategy and Student Outcomes in Dialogues
Fareya Ikram, Alexander Scarlatos, Andrew Lan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06910

Exploring LLMs for Predicting Tutor Strategy and Student Outcomes in Dialogues
Tutoring dialogues have gained significant attention in recent years, given the prominence of online learning and the emerging tutoring abilities of artificial intelligence (AI) agents powered by large language models (LLMs). Recent studies have shown that the strategies used by tutors can have significant effects on student outcomes, necessitating methods to predict how tutors will behave and how their actions impact students. However, few works have studied predicting tutor strategy in dialog…

What Shapes User Trust in ChatGPT? A Mixed-Methods Study of User Attributes, Trust Dimensions, Task Context, and Societal Perceptions among University Students
Kadija Bouyzourn, Alexandra Birch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05046

What Shapes User Trust in ChatGPT? A Mixed-Methods Study of User Attributes, Trust Dimensions, Task Context, and Societal Perceptions among University Students
This mixed-methods inquiry examined four domains that shape university students' trust in ChatGPT: user attributes, seven delineated trust dimensions, task context, and perceived societal impact. Data were collected through a survey of 115 UK undergraduate and postgraduate students and four complementary semi-structured interviews. Behavioural engagement outweighed demographics: frequent use increased trust, whereas self-reported understanding of large-language-model mechanics reduced it. Among…

Some Chinese universities are using AI detection tools to screen papers, but false positives force students to "dumb down" content or pay for rewriting services (Peiyue Wu/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-detector-software-workaround/…

Chinese students are using AI to beat AI detectors
As Chinese universities crack down on AI use, some students report false positives — and a booming industry of work-around tools is emerging.

Students around the world who were gearing up to study in the United States this fall face growing uncertainty
after the Trump administration temporarily halted student visa appointments this week.
On Tuesday, a state department directive ordered US embassies globally to immediately stop scheduling visa interviews for foreign students
while it prepares to implement expanded social media screening for all international visa applicants.
While interview appointments that …

Is Boston where we start overthrowing the king again?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/us/harvard-university-trump-international-students

@… Do you have mandatory attendance? Here we have “liberté académique,” i.e., students are not required to attend classes… So, I could in fact take this approach—but it still seems somewhat unfair to me if you can get the credits without putting in the work…

@… Do you have mandatory attendance? Here we have “liberté académique,” i.e., students are not required to attend classes… So, I could in fact take this approach—but it still seems somewhat unfair to me if you can get the credits without putting in the work…

Rethinking Citation of AI Sources in Student-AI Collaboration within HCI Design Education
Prakash Shukla, Suchismita Naik, Ike Obi, Jessica Backus, Nancy Rasche, Paul Parson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08467

Rethinking Citation of AI Sources in Student-AI Collaboration within HCI Design Education
The growing integration of AI tools in student design projects presents an unresolved challenge in HCI education: how should AI-generated content be cited and documented? Traditional citation frameworks -- grounded in credibility, retrievability, and authorship -- struggle to accommodate the dynamic and ephemeral nature of AI outputs. In this paper, we examine how undergraduate students in a UX design course approached AI usage and citation when given the freedom to integrate generative tools i…

Teaching Astronomy with Large Language Models
Yuan-Sen Ting, Teaghan O'Briain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06921 https://arxiv.org/…

Teaching Astronomy with Large Language Models
We present a study of LLM integration in final-year undergraduate astronomy education, examining how students develop AI literacy through structured guidance and documentation requirements. We developed AstroTutor, a domain-specific astronomy tutoring system enhanced with curated arXiv content, and deployed it alongside general-purpose LLMs in the course. Students documented their AI usage through homework reflections and post-course surveys. We analyzed student evolution in AI interaction stra…

JD Vance's False Immigrant Choice (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/jd-vance-immigrants-international-students-visas-donald-trump-b42452ed?st=robs13&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/250607/p10#a250607p10

Z3Guide: A Scalable, Student-Centered, and Extensible Educational Environment for Logic Modeling
Ruanqianqian Huang, Ayana Monroe, Peli de Halleux, Sorin Lerner, Nikolaj Bj{\o}rner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08294

Z3Guide: A Scalable, Student-Centered, and Extensible Educational Environment for Logic Modeling
Constraint-satisfaction problems (CSPs) are ubiquitous, ranging from budgeting for grocery shopping to verifying software behavior. Logic modeling helps solve CSPs programmatically using SMT solvers. Despite its importance in many Computer Science disciplines, resources for teaching and learning logic modeling are scarce and scattered, and challenges remain in designing educational environments for logic modeling that are accessible and meet the needs of teachers and students. This paper explor…

They've always had the best name and now they're the best team, too. Congratulations to the YDS soccer team the Paracleats, the newly crowned champions of the Yale grad schools IM soccer league! The Paracleats beat the School of Management 4-1 in Sunday's championship game following their 5-1 thrashing of Medicine in the semifinal.

@… Luckily, I can use pass/fail grading for most of my courses. However, I have no interest in being a jester whose job is to entertain disinterested students. This will be the challenge…

@… Luckily, I can use pass/fail grading for most of my courses. However, I have no interest in being a jester whose job is to entertain disinterested students. This will be the challenge…

WIP: Large Language Model-Enhanced Smart Tutor for Undergraduate Circuit Analysis
Liangliang Chen, Huiru Xie, Jacqueline Rohde, Ying Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08962

WIP: Large Language Model-Enhanced Smart Tutor for Undergraduate Circuit Analysis
This research-to-practice work-in-progress (WIP) paper presents an AI-enabled smart tutor designed to provide homework assessment and feedback for students in an undergraduate circuit analysis course. We detail the tutor's design philosophy and core components, including open-ended question answering and homework feedback generation. The prompts are carefully crafted to optimize responses across different problems. The smart tutor was deployed on the Microsoft Azure platform and is currently in…

student_cooperation: Student cooperation (2012)
Network of cooperation among students in the "Computer and Network Security" course at Ben-Gurion University, in 2012. Nodes are students, and edges denote cooperation between students while doing their homework. The graph contains three types of links: Time, Computer, Partners.
This network has 185 nodes and 360 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multigraph, Unweighted

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Breaking Barriers: Investigating Gender Dynamics in Introductory Physics Lab Classes
The persistent underrepresentation of women and other gender minorities in physical science fields has been an ongoing concern. This study investigates gender dynamics in introductory physics laboratory courses, focusing on whether students of different gender identities exhibit equal inclination and confidence in conducting lab experiments, and whether they face barriers that impact their participation. Conducted across three institutions and involving non-physics STEM students enrolled in alg…

The Trump administration’s spending cuts and restrictions on foreign students are triggering a brain drain — and American scientists are panicking.
U.S. researchers' fears are coming true.
America’s science pipeline is drying up,
and countries like China are seizing the opportunity to surge ahead.

“This is such a race for being the science powerhouse that you never fully recover,”
says Marcia McNutt, president of the National Academy of Sciences.

The great poaching: America's brain drain begins
China and Europe are recruiting heavily from U.S. labs.

Trump Issues Proclamation Banning International Students at Harvard From Entering U.S. (Dhruv T. Patel/The Harvard Crimson)
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/6/5/trump-international-students-ban/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p177#a250604p177

student_cooperation: Student cooperation (2012)
Network of cooperation among students in the "Computer and Network Security" course at Ben-Gurion University, in 2012. Nodes are students, and edges denote cooperation between students while doing their homework. The graph contains three types of links: Time, Computer, Partners.
This network has 185 nodes and 360 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multigraph, Unweighted

Trump proclamation seeks to restrict international students from Harvard (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/04/harvard-visa-ban-trump-international-students/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p185#a250604p185

student_cooperation: Student cooperation (2012)
Network of cooperation among students in the "Computer and Network Security" course at Ben-Gurion University, in 2012. Nodes are students, and edges denote cooperation between students while doing their homework. The graph contains three types of links: Time, Computer, Partners.
This network has 185 nodes and 360 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multigraph, Unweighted

Unpacking Graduate Students' Learning Experience with Generative AI Teaching Assistant in A Quantitative Methodology Course
Zhanxin Hao, Haifeng Luo, Yongyi Chen, Yu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02966

Unpacking Graduate Students' Learning Experience with Generative AI Teaching Assistant in A Quantitative Methodology Course
The study was conducted in an Advanced Quantitative Research Methods course involving 20 graduate students. During the course, student inquiries made to the AI were recorded and coded using Bloom's taxonomy and the CLEAR framework. A series of independent sample t-tests and poisson regression analyses were employed to analyse the characteristics of different questions asked by students with different backgrounds. Post course interviews were conducted with 10 students to gain deeper insights int…

Trump bans Harvard from admitting new international students (Trevor Hughes/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/06/04/trump-bans-harvard-international-students/84038655007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p173#a250604p173

PULSE-A Mission Overview: Optical Communications for Undergraduate Students
Logan Hanssler, Seth Knights, Graydon Schulze-Kalt, Juan Ignacio Prieto Asbun, Robert Pitu, Lauren Ayala, Rohan Gupta, Vincent Redwine, Spencer Shelton, Catherine Todd, Maya McDaniel, Sofia Mansilla, John Baird, Mason McCormack, Leah Vashevko, Tian Zhong, Michael Lembeck
http…

PULSE-A Mission Overview: Optical Communications for Undergraduate Students
Recent advances in the size, weight, and power (SWaP) requirements for space-based sensing have dramatically increased the demand for high-bandwidth downlink. However, high data rate RF transceivers still pose significant SWaP and cost restrictions, especially for university-class CubeSat missions. Optical communication may provide a solution to this challenge, enabling data transmission with order-of-magnitude rate increases over RF while being both secure and SWaP-efficient. The Polarization-…

highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Validation of the Critical Reflection and Agency in Computing Index: Do Computing Ethics Courses Make a Difference?
Aadarsh Padiyath, Casey Fiesler, Mark Guzdial, Barbara Ericson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06193

Validation of the Critical Reflection and Agency in Computing Index: Do Computing Ethics Courses Make a Difference?
Computing ethics education aims to develop students' critical reflection and agency. We need validated ways to measure whether our efforts succeed. Through two survey administrations (N=474, N=464) with computing students and professionals, we provide evidence for the validity of the Critical Reflection and Agency in Computing Index. Our psychometric analyses demonstrate distinct dimensions of ethical development and show strong reliability and construct validity. Participants who completed com…

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 458 nodes and 7613 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

How Students (Really) Use ChatGPT: Uncovering Experiences Among Undergraduate Students
Tawfiq Ammari, Meilun Chen, S M Mehedi Zaman, Kiran Garimella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24126

How Students (Really) Use ChatGPT: Uncovering Experiences Among Undergraduate Students
This study investigates how undergraduate students engage with ChatGPT in self directed learning contexts. Analyzing naturalistic interaction logs, we identify five dominant use categories of ChatGPT information seeking, content generation, language refinement, meta cognitive engagement, and conversational repair. Behavioral modeling reveals that structured, goal driven tasks like coding, multiple choice solving, and job application writing are strong predictors of continued use. Drawing on Sel…

Integrating Generative AI in BIM Education: Insights from Classroom Implementation
Islem Sahraoui, Kinam Kim, Lu Gao, Zia Din, Ahmed Senouci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05296

Integrating Generative AI in BIM Education: Insights from Classroom Implementation
This study evaluates the implementation of a Generative AI-powered rule checking workflow within a graduate-level Building Information Modeling (BIM) course at a U.S. university. Over two semesters, 55 students participated in a classroom-based pilot exploring the use of GenAI for BIM compliance tasks, an area with limited prior research. The instructional design included lectures on prompt engineering and AI-driven rule checking, followed by an assignment where students used a large language m…

sp_high_school: High school temporal contacts (2013)
These data sets correspond to the contacts and friendship relations between students in a high school in Marseilles, France, in December 2013, as measured through several techniques.
This network has 329 nodes and 668 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Trump aims to slash Pell Grants, which could limit low-income students' college access (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pell-grants-trump-cuts-rcna211715
http://www.memeorandum.com/250608/p77#a250608p77

highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

AI Literacy and LLM Engagement in Higher Education: A Cross-National Quantitative Study
Shahin Hossain, Shapla Khanam, Samaa Haniya, Nesma Ragab Nasr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03020

AI Literacy and LLM Engagement in Higher Education: A Cross-National Quantitative Study
This study presents a cross-national quantitative analysis of how university students in the United States and Bangladesh interact with Large Language Models (LLMs). Based on an online survey of 318 students, results show that LLMs enhance access to information, improve writing, and boost academic performance. However, concerns about overreliance, ethical risks, and critical thinking persist. Guided by the AI Literacy Framework, Expectancy-Value Theory, and Biggs' 3P Model, the study finds that…

student_cooperation: Student cooperation (2012)
Network of cooperation among students in the "Computer and Network Security" course at Ben-Gurion University, in 2012. Nodes are students, and edges denote cooperation between students while doing their homework. The graph contains three types of links: Time, Computer, Partners.
This network has 185 nodes and 360 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multigraph, Unweighted

Do AI tutors empower or enslave learners? Toward a critical use of AI in education
Lucile Favero, Juan-Antonio P\'erez-Ortiz, Tanja K\"aser, Nuria Oliver
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06878

Do AI tutors empower or enslave learners? Toward a critical use of AI in education
The increasing integration of AI tools in education presents both opportunities and challenges, particularly regarding the development of the students' critical thinking skills. This position paper argues that while AI can support learning, its unchecked use may lead to cognitive atrophy, loss of agency, emotional risks, and ethical concerns, ultimately undermining the core goals of education. Drawing on cognitive science and pedagogy, the paper explores how over-reliance on AI can disrupt mean…

Assessing the Prevalence of AI-assisted Cheating in Programming Courses: A Pilot Study
Kal\'eu Delphino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06438 https://

Assessing the Prevalence of AI-assisted Cheating in Programming Courses: A Pilot Study
Tools that can generate computer code in response to inputs written in natural language, such as ChatGPT, pose an existential threat to Computer Science education in its current form, since students can now use these tools to solve assignments without much effort. While that risk has already been recognized by scholars, the proportion of the student body that is incurring in this new kind of plagiarism is still an open problem. We conducted a pilot study in a large CS class (n=120) to assess th…

Toward Cyclic A.I. Modelling of Self-Regulated Learning: A Case Study with E-Learning Trace Data
Andrew Schwabe, \"Ozg\"ur Akg\"un, Ella Haig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02913

Toward Cyclic A.I. Modelling of Self-Regulated Learning: A Case Study with E-Learning Trace Data
Many e-learning platforms assert their ability or potential to improve students' self-regulated learning (SRL), however the cyclical and undirected nature of SRL theoretical models represent significant challenges for representation within contemporary machine learning frameworks. We apply SRL-informed features to trace data in order to advance modelling of students' SRL activities, to improve predictability and explainability regarding the causal effects of learning in an eLearning environment…

sp_high_school: High school temporal contacts (2013)
These data sets correspond to the contacts and friendship relations between students in a high school in Marseilles, France, in December 2013, as measured through several techniques.
This network has 329 nodes and 668 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

add_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994)
A directed network of friendships obtained through a social survey of high school students in 1994. The ADD HEALTH data are constructed from the in-school questionnaire; 90,118 students representing 84 communities took this survey in 1994-95. Some communities had only one school; others had two. Where there are two schools in a community students from one school were allowed to name friends in the other, the "sister school".…

add_health: Adolescent health (ADD HEALTH) (1994)
A directed network of friendships obtained through a social survey of high school students in 1994. The ADD HEALTH data are constructed from the in-school questionnaire; 90,118 students representing 84 communities took this survey in 1994-95. Some communities had only one school; others had two. Where there are two schools in a community students from one school were allowed to name friends in the other, the "sister school".…

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 534 nodes and 12812 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

sp_high_school: High school temporal contacts (2013)
These data sets correspond to the contacts and friendship relations between students in a high school in Marseilles, France, in December 2013, as measured through several techniques.
This network has 329 nodes and 1437 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps