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Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoPlagiarism is a word for when students ignore good learning techniques and find a way to tick a box as quickly and easily as possible, handing in work that gives the outward appearance of having learned without all the time-consuming effort required for the real thing, at a cost to their ethics and morals. What's the word for when teachers ignore good teaching practice and find a way to tick a box as quickly as possible, handing out assignments that give the outward appearance of teaching without all the time-consuming effort required for the real thing, at a cost to their ethics and morals. If you set the same questions as you did for the last 5 years, the same questions that every lecturer in that subject has set for the last 5 years then of course your laziness is going to be met in kind. Students may be lazy, but that doesn't make them stupid. Cookie cutter questions deserve cookie cutter answers, and jumping through hoops to prove that you've needlessly duplicated the work of others may come naturally to lecturers, but it's not natural or rational behaviour.