There's nothing funnier than an article that has been retracted from the internet. Because, you know, nothing is ever retracted from the internet. That's why, when I went looking for this article from Panos Ipeirotis and found it missing from his blog, I simply did a site-specific search on The Google and found the cache version. Which I link here, for posterity, because it has made a splash on Metafilter and was widely cited in the student blogosphere. Ipeirotis wrote (probably to the chagrin of his administration) "By the end of the semester, 22 students admitted cheating, out of the 108 enrolled in the class. The process of discussing all the detected cases was not only painful, it was extremely time consuming as well." Instead, he plans "to use assignments that are inherently not amenable to cheating: public projects, peer reviewing and competitions.
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