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Comment on Thanking Students for Their Work by Michele Gill

Michele Gill — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:21:24 +0000

This is wonderful! My boys Language Arts teacher has just started experimenting with blogs…they are truly just dipping their toes in the blogoshpere, but I’m sure they’d love some attention! http://www.5thgradefrench.blogspot.com.
Thanks for supporting my guys who hate writing but love to read.

Comment on Online Course (With Apologies to Poe) by uberVU - social comments

uberVU - social comments — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:26:56 +0000

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This post was mentioned on Twitter by ChristyATucker: We’re sharing elearning horror stories on our team blog. Thanks @minutebio for sharing this story. Apologies to Poe. http://bit.ly/1Amrqe...

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Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:52:22 +0000

[...] Copying, Pasting, and Getting Caught « PLS Online Course Development plsonline.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/copying-pasting-and-getting-caught – view page – cached It’s a common complaint (often exaggerated) about online education that students plagiarize, but my horror stories aren’t about students. My horror stories are about developing online courses…. (Read more)It’s a common complaint (often exaggerated) about online education that students plagiarize, but my horror stories aren’t about students. My horror stories are about developing online courses. (Note: neither of these stories is from PLS; these happened at a prior job.) (Read less) — From the page [...]

Comment on Copying, Pasting, and Getting Caught by Christy Tucker

Christy Tucker — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:30:37 +0000

I heard of one university where a husband and wife were enrolled in the same program. They were always separated into different sections with different faculty, which seemed like a reasonable course of action at the time. After they’d gotten through about a half dozen courses, someone realized they were submitting the same work for assignments. One of the deans took a look through the history, and through the entire program, the husband had been submitting his work a few minutes after his wife, always duplicating her content. No one had caught it because they’d never had the same instructor.

When confronted, the husband was a real gem. He completely threw his wife under the bus, claiming that she was copying from him. He said he was the one always doing all the work, so he should get his degree and she should get kicked out of the school. Doesn’t he sound like a sweet guy?

Comment on A Dark and Stormy Night by Susan Brien

Susan Brien — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:54:39 +0000

Well all righty then! : ) One person had signed up for just about every course we have but, he’d always drop one and ask to be put into another one for “next time”. I got him and was getting his emails about how he hated the work, excuses for this or that and in exasperaton talked to KS at PLS. A-ha! Now we get the full story. Seems he played this game to have his superiors think he was enrolled in all these classes because he was on remediation! Based on how the guy wrote and his diatribes that said nothing about the material, I could see why he was on remediation and I suggested that he needed to drop. I passed my letter by the head honcho and it was approved. That was one of the final nails in a coffin that caused PLS to disallow but one transfer of $$$ to another course. Seems he owed a bazillion bucks to us too.

Let’s see – how about the one who disagreed with everything about research? Loved that guy. Never happened to him so it didn’t and couldn’t happen – period. Dropped. Another one just wrote stream-of-conscious type things that had nothing to do with the material. When I graded, I was unfair, uninformed, etc. Dropped! Whatever. : ) Or how ’bout the one who thought we asked too much of them? Or wanted to write the way “it came to me”? Or the best is knowing that many don’t read anything – especially directions. Really now, would you admit that in a post? More later!

Comment on Copying, Pasting, and Getting Caught by Susan Brien

Susan Brien — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:40:25 +0000

I had a student from another land who posted work to a forum that just looked too familar to me. I searched for the other post I was sure it was from and lo and behold, that person had taken entire sentences from another participant’s post! (You could tell not only from the words themselves, but also from the time stamps.) I followed our procedures and after confirmation from above, notified the student that I suspected plagarism. In a note back to me, the student had said s/he had written the same thing for another course and provided me with it. On a whim, I asked to be able to see the work she has submitted for the other course right in the course and by gosh, by golly, the person had done the same thing there!! Whole sentences were lifted! I took the severity of the issue to the university’s Academic Integrity Officer. He asked me what I thought the student’s grade should be and I said, “Failure”. I don’t know the final dispensation but I’m sure the student was dropped from the university’s program and rightfully so.

Comment on A Dark and Stormy Night by Ginny

Ginny — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:12:46 +0000

Yes, Sue please share some stories and solutions. I have yet to find any students like this but I know they are out there.

Comment on A Dark and Stormy Night by Christy Tucker

Christy Tucker — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:34:57 +0000

Sue, you can’t leave us hanging like that! Tell us at least one of your stories–I bet you have some juicy ones.

Comment on A Dark and Stormy Night by Susan Brien

Susan Brien — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:44:17 +0000

Ah, why is it I can relate? : ) Excellent poem, April. You totally ROCK!! (And do I have some horror stories and a few students like that too! YIKES!)

Comment on A Dark and Stormy Night by April Hayman

April Hayman — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:02:41 +0000

Thanks, Christy! I feel bad for the instructor and participants…and I wrote it!