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by Panos 15y ago
:-) Admittedly, I got the impression that most people do not bother to read anything longer than 140 characters.
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by Panos 15y ago
Mea culpa. I just wanted to close the loop and identify a point that people would relate to. (I was not sure that people would relate to the fact that the student evaluations dropped. Apparently most people do not even know that student eva
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by Panos 15y ago
No, I could not really think of that. I do not filter my blog posts through any PR department, and I have written plenty of stories that received wide attention. And going through a PR department typically means that the resulting document
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by Panos 15y ago
Yes, I had to remove the article from my own blog.
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by Panos 15y ago
Absolutely correct. The compensation part was just one of the many data points, but a point that many people can relate to. A couple of thousand dollars per year would not make a difference in my life. It is mainly a signal of appreciation
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by Panos 15y ago
The essay was about doing a Porter's Five Forces analysis of the wireless industry, as the new 4G technologies enter the market. The WiMax question was just a "warm up" easy question, so that students that do not know what WiMax is can star
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by Panos 15y ago
Well, for non-office hours I can always say to the student that they cannot come in, as I have other things to do. There is a legitimate excuse not to even start the conversation. However, during office hours, any student can come in and di
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by Panos 15y ago
From the syllabus and the assignment description: "Students may not work together on graded assignment unless the instructor gives express permission. Collaborating on graded assignments with students from other sections, is a violation of
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by Panos 15y ago
"A clever teacher would figure out a way for students to police each other. I've seen it work to great effect. No one grades harder than a peer." I could not agree with you more. This assignment, in which students get to teach "emerging tec
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by Panos 15y ago
Wait, as I just noticed this: You collaborated with another student? In an individual assignment? In which you had very clear directions not to collaborate with other students? I am really sorry that I did not catch you. You would hav
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by Panos 15y ago
When I detected 15+ cheating cases, I just asked permission from the Dean's office to notify students over email, and then direct them to the Dean's office for appeals. So I did that, notified the cheating students they got a -30 (negative
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by Panos 15y ago
Ah correct. I should have mentioned that. I was detecting some cheating in Excel assignments, but I was only pursuing the very obvious cases. At most a couple of cheating cases per semester. For essays, it was pretty much impossible witho
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by Panos 15y ago
Again: read the article until the end. I do not blame the students. Students respond to incentives. If I give them opportunities to cheat and remain undetected, they will cheat. I do the same as a human. If I were getting a 50% increase i
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by Panos 15y ago
I see your point. But consider the following: these numbers are for the students that admitted cheating. There was a significant number of other assignments for which I suspected cheating but I did not have enough evidence. So, I erred on
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by Panos 15y ago
By the administration, which separates the credits for the courses into "recitations" and "lectures". The TA's get paid for the recitations/activities-based hours, the professors for the lectures.
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by Panos 15y ago
I have the proposed solution at the end of the article. Please read that part as it is at the very heart of the point that I want to make.
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by Panos 15y ago
Let me start by indicating some logical flaws in the timing of the events: The office hours for the class were from 12.30 to 1.30, Monday and Wednesday. The class was starting at 2pm. According to your account, I showed up at 1pm, being 30
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by Panos 15y ago
I thought of that as well. With this approach you hit another structural problem: activities such as solving problems etc are considered appropriate only for "recitations" (i.e., done by TA's) and not for "lectures" (the part where the prof
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by Panos 15y ago
It was less than inflation, I am just confirming that :-)
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by Panos 15y ago
I do regret letting the "copy & paste" students go relatively unharmed. I was naive to believe that they will not do it again. They were even more naive to try to cheat again in my own class. Btw, all students were reported to the admin
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by Panos 15y ago
Derrida, most of the professors teach because of students like you. Nobody that I know enjoys teaching disinterested or bored students. Of course, there are professors that fail to teach well, the students get disinterested, then the profes
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by Panos 15y ago
You are correct. I did not want to sound racist. Perhaps "cultural ties" would be a better term. Btw, most of this happens because students with common cultural ties tend to socialize together in student clubs, etc.
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by Panos 15y ago
(I am the blog post author). No the suggestion was not to create entirely new assignments every year. This is problematic, not because it takes time, but because is it hard to "debug" the assignment, and make it to be not too hard, not too
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by Panos 15y ago
I am the professor who wrote the blog post. What you mention was a very big problem for the adoption of services like Turnitin. In fact, when there is a match, there is no way of seeing the "source" of the homework, unless you get a permiss
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by Panos 15y ago
James, I did exactly what you suggested. Every single student came to protest. I believed that things would play out exactly as you are thinking. Unfortunately, they turned out very differently.
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by Panos 15y ago
Justin, I am the professor who wrote the article. The 44 hours is not a number to show how much extra I had to work. Believe me, a 14-hour day is a pretty common thing for me. Teaching is only part of my overall job (I also have to do resea
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Why I will never pursue cheating again(behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com)
691 points by Panos 15y ago|482 comments
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by Panos 15y ago
It is not available on the web. It is in the print edition, and in the iPad version of the magazine. You can download the scan if you want to read it. I guess they make the articles available online a few days later than the print edition.
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Crowdsourcing, Linked Data, Humans, and Machines: Rediscovering a Lost Treasure(behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com)
44 points by Panos 15y ago|4 comments
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Crowdsourcing Education(behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com)
1 points by Panos 15y ago|0 comments

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