"The Death of Web Development Education": Books and Courses Collapse in the Face of AI Assistants
Book sales have fallen to zero, course revenues halved, blog traffic captured by robots: an essay brings together the testimonies of web trainers.
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Book sales have fallen to zero, course revenues halved, blog traffic captured by robots: an essay brings together the testimonies of web trainers.
The Center for Digital Thriving describes a "two-way suspicion": students hide their use of AI, or even deliberately botch their work for fear of being wrongly accused.
A report by Cambridge University Press & Assessment notes that teachers are adopting AI ‘in a vacuum’ and sets out eight principles, ranging from continuing professional development to a critical approach to AI.
According to Douglas Scott, debates on AI in science overlook the key point: the immediate threat lies in the education of students, who must continue to learn to think for themselves.
The Argus tool analyses the behaviour and style of code across six years of graduate intake; its alerts show a negative correlation with marks in invigilated examinations, but require human review.
Six equity-based adjustments were tested using data from a public secondary school in Ontario. The indicators show a consistent trend, but small marginalised groups remain underserved.
61 interviews show that low-income American students whose parents have no formal education limit their use of ChatGPT or Claude to a few specific purposes, held back by five identified barriers.
Of 52 Turkish students, 44 per cent were classified as high-risk based on their final exam papers. Five browsing variables are sufficient to predict this classification right from the start of the term.
In two Master’s-level courses, a teaching assistant who requires students to justify their position before asking questions only improves the self-reported measures. The recorded exchanges are brief, and some are missing.
Platforms that record the writing process are marketed as a measure of fairness. A British qualitative study shows that students are divided on the issue and are already writing defensively.
Explaining concepts, exploration, information-seeking, troubleshooting: the study maps out actual usage patterns and questioning strategies, as well as the obstacles encountered.
A RAND survey of 1,214 young people found that 67 per cent agreed, with a 25-point gap between those who do not use AI and those who use it the most.
A UPCEA survey of 1,057 adults shows that the mention of a school in an AI response now influences a list of preferences that has been reduced to just three schools.
Christian Kästner has done away with all in-person sessions, opting instead for meetings with teaching assistants, assessments and video demonstrations — whilst acknowledging that this deviates from best teaching practice.
929 English pupils were randomly assigned to either the Medly platform or traditional self-study revision in biology, chemistry and physics. The drop-out rate was 30.7 per cent.
StudentBench compares 2,383 participants across the categories of model-based tutoring, human tutoring and no tutoring, over the course of a one-hour session.
OpenAI adds 20 states and about 140,000 educators to its free offer until June 2028, maintaining an explicit line: no account is open to students.
The School of Continuing Studies will launch in the fall of 2027 a Master of Strategic Leadership & AI, ten online courses on the integration of machines into decision-making.
British universities are moving back to the facet, while 95% of students report using AI in their studies compared to 66% in 2024.
Prohibition of training models on student data, no individual monitoring, no decision without human supervision: commitments become contractual from November 1st.