Thursday, August 14, 2008

Question 1 - Academic Dishonesty???

You are the instructor of an online class. You are tasked with creating a policy on academic dishonesty in your courses. The faculty in this journal article believed that students who collaborated without instructor permission or who used a paper from a previous class to fulfill an assignment are both academically dishonest. Give your detailed opinion on why you agree or disagree with the statement.

Question 2 - Turnitin.com

There has been much discussion in a number of journals regarding Turnitin.com as a site that should or shouldn't be used to evaluate plagarism potential in papers. Do you believe that a database site such as Turnitin.com should be used in online education programs to evaluate academic dishonesty? Give your detailed opinion and reveal any experiences you may have had with this type of product in previous educational arenas.