Tag: RYERSON

The student at Toronto's Ryerson University who -- when we last checked -- was facing expulsion for creating an online collaborative study group on Facebook, has now been cleared of academic misconduct -- although he still received a penalty to his course grade. Chris Avenir, the 18-year-old student who created the Facebook group, claimed the activity on the online study group was the same as ...

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 ...