
Academic Dishonesty
Dan wrote a good post on Academic Dishonesty a while back. Mine doesn’t address the administrative side at all so I’d recommend reading his for that. My planned post for this week is delayed because this distracted me: Yesterday I began grading my first big writing assignment of the year. I got …

Required Readings, 10.26.14
Welcome to a new day for Required Readings, which will henceforth be presented once a week, on Sundays. RR is a collection of news stories, opinion pieces, and education resources we hope you’ll find interesting and/or useful, particularly if you’re a skeptical educator of some sort. But we can’t do …

UNC’s “Paper Classes” are Merely the Logical Endpoint of Several Current Trends
Unless you subscribe to the SoD monthly print zine—sign up now for the low, low price of $100 per crudely photocopied issue; please make all cheques payable to CASH–chances are you have an internet connection and have seen this recent Vox article on the UNC Chapel Hill “Paper Class” scandal …

Pop Quiz: Academic (Dis)honesty
Summer is winding down, and for many of us this means a return to teaching, complete with its associated joys and horrors.* By far the worst of these horrors, at least in my opinion, is dealing with exam cheating and plagiarism. There is absolutely nothing about the whole process that …