Shaping the Learning Curve Through a Code
Jay Mathews,
Washington Post,
Apr 17, 2002
I don't write a lot about cheating and plagiarism because I think the issue is overblown. Case in point: an allegation where one school's efforts to limit cheating entail that a student shall not learn from another student (which, to me, sems to be exactly opposite to what we would like to accomplish). From the article: "The university officials who filled in the violation form were forced by the Georgia Tech rules to stray so far from their obligation as educators that they seriously listed part of the freshman’s offense in exactly these words: 'He was trying to learn it.'" Now please don't read me as condoning cheating. I'm not. But do read me as condemning really bad course design which results in good learning practices being befined as cheating.
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