Comments on: Google and Wikipedia Off Limits For Brighton Uni Students

By: Naren Pingle

Naren Pingle — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:34:26 +0000

Well, in my opinion the students should stick to the “do it on your own” theory. They should refer to the online material but should not just copy and paste it for their research work. After all, there has to be some originality. I admire Professor Brabazon for her decision.

By: Yannis Corovesis

Yannis Corovesis — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:25:30 +0000

There is a better solution. First time students justbring wikipedia, google etc copy pasted.
Next, teacher collects these resources, processes them and asks students to use them much like the offline resources. If student cheats this is easy to spot.

Yannis (ycor.wordpress.com)

By: Premasagar

Premasagar — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:32:23 +0000

I guess there is also some educational value in requiring students to use an abacus and slide rule instead of a calculator… but not very much.