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Using a Facebook group is not the same as face to face collaboration on schoolwork, according to administrators at Toronto's Ryerson University.
Case in point: a freshman student faces expulsion for setting up an online study group via Facebook last semester. The professor for the class claims this lead to cheating and not just normal study group help. The student, Chris Avenir, says the online activity is no different than a group of students gathering in person to give each other advice on how to complete their chemistry homework assignments.
Avenir faces 146 counts of academic misconduct, one for each of the classmates who signed up for the Facebook group he set up last term, plus one additional count for setting up the group in the first place.
Oddly enough, students are permitted to meet in person to help each other with assignments. The name of the group itself -- Dungeons/Mastering Chemistry Solutions – is based on the actual room in an academic building where his classmates would typically meet for study sessions.
Is this simply a case of scale, where the numbers and accessibility of the online activity gives students an unfair advantage, or were they really cheating?
The professor seems to think the latter, having changed Avenir's grade from a B to an F after learning of the Facebook activity and recommending the student's expulsion. Avenir will have a chance to defend the group, which he says is simply the modern version of study hall for the "wired generation."
That argument may be more readily received by a computer science professor than a chemistry professor, it seems.
Students at other schools have previously been disciplined or expelled for Web sites or Facebook pages that criticize or threaten other students and their schools, but the is the first time we've heard of a student being punished for encouraging fellow classmates to study more.
From The Toronto Star.
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Case in point: a freshman student faces expulsion for setting up an online study group via Facebook last semester. The professor for the class claims this lead to cheating and not just normal study group help. The student, Chris Avenir, says the online activity is no different than a group of students gathering in person to give each other advice on how to complete their chemistry homework assignments.Avenir faces 146 counts of academic misconduct, one for each of the classmates who signed up for the Facebook group he set up last term, plus one additional count for setting up the group in the first place.
Oddly enough, students are permitted to meet in person to help each other with assignments. The name of the group itself -- Dungeons/Mastering Chemistry Solutions – is based on the actual room in an academic building where his classmates would typically meet for study sessions.
Is this simply a case of scale, where the numbers and accessibility of the online activity gives students an unfair advantage, or were they really cheating?
The professor seems to think the latter, having changed Avenir's grade from a B to an F after learning of the Facebook activity and recommending the student's expulsion. Avenir will have a chance to defend the group, which he says is simply the modern version of study hall for the "wired generation."
That argument may be more readily received by a computer science professor than a chemistry professor, it seems.
Students at other schools have previously been disciplined or expelled for Web sites or Facebook pages that criticize or threaten other students and their schools, but the is the first time we've heard of a student being punished for encouraging fellow classmates to study more.
From The Toronto Star.
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Subscribe to commentsjoelMar 11th 2008 3:28PM
Got an idea why not ban all the books , calculators after class , then have the student take the test based on their retention after all this would prove the quality of the teachers....IN SHORT BANNING STUDENT FROM DOING WHAT IS DONE IN STUDY GROUP IS RIDICULOUS MAYBE THE TEACHER FEEL THREATEN BY HIS/HER LACK OF KNOWLEDGE GET OVER IT OR MOVE OVER .....
boredwellMar 12th 2008 7:04AM
In this instance, the instructor and the school's administration need more education than the student(s). 146-peers tutoring one another helped where the teacher failed. So this is the prof's proof of "cheating?!" Education is all about finding answers through information. When a student takes constructive action to address and correct a deficiency, namely the instructor's inability to convey knowledge, that student should be lauded rather than lambasted. That 146 students were finding the class difficult is reason enough to believe that the instructor is at fault. Monitoring should be initiated to assess the instructor's ability or inability to teach. So, bollocks, why kill the messenger!
Marc GolaszewskiMar 12th 2008 4:20PM
This professor must be a fan of the Polish PM who likened people who go online to beer drinking porn watchers. What a putz!