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The reason this type of cheating occurs is that a college degree has external value. If the cheaters aren't even the ones doing the learning, I doubt that the q
by gengkev 10y ago
The reason this type of cheating occurs is that a college degree has external value. If the cheaters aren't even the ones doing the learning, I doubt that the quality or nature of the college's education would affect their behavior. So I don't think that colleges are really at fault here (besides not putting enough effort into catching cheaters).
- enraged_camel 10y ago>>The reason cheating occurs is that a college degree has value, and cheaters would like to obtain that degree through money rather than effort. I don't follow your logic at all. They earn that money through effort, so at the end of the day it comes down to the same thing. The article specifically gives the example of someone who has a full-time job plus a commitment to the National Guard, and doesn't have any spare time for 15 credits worth of class and its associated work.
- PhantomGremlin 10y agoa full-time job plus a commitment to the National Guard, and doesn't have any spare time for 15 credits worth of class and its associated work. Well, back in the good old days, people in similar situations took 3 credit hours at a time. It took them almost forever to get their degrees, but at least they obtained them honestly. The world doesn't owe anyone a shortcut to an education. No matter how inconvenient the honest path might be.
- mjevans 10y agoBack in the days when a college education was still within reasonable reach of someone working a job they could easily find in the print paper?
- enraged_camel 10y agoAh yes, back in the good old days, when college was super cheap, when everyone with a college degree was guaranteed a job, and when wages were increasing steadily so that they didn't need a college degree to get a pay increase. Those good old days?
- slyall 10y agoAlso he was already doing his job well enough, he just needed an extra few credits to satisfy some random bureaucratic rule and get a pay bump. Roughly the equivalent of the mandatory diversity training or (to give a tech example) a PCI checklist.