Timeline for Are there universities that consider it academic misconduct for students to publish material created by faculty?
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| Dec 8, 2017 at 21:32 | history | edited | Bob Brown | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added "public domain."
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| May 12, 2016 at 22:24 | answer | added | thebishopofcalc | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 21, 2014 at 20:22 | answer | added | mako | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 20, 2014 at 2:01 | history | edited | Bob Brown | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added "[emphasis in the original]"
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| Nov 15, 2014 at 21:45 | history | edited | Bob Brown | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
And then removed an extra word. {sigh}
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| Sep 11, 2014 at 3:41 | comment | added | Patrick Collins | It seems to me that if you don't know, how are your students supposed to know? Whether or not this was the "right" thing for them to do, it seems to me that the students have a reasonable expectation that they won't be penalized for conduct that's not forbidden by their syllabus/honor code or grossly dishonest. Clearly, neither of of these apply here. | |
| Sep 10, 2014 at 23:25 | history | protected | ff524 | ||
| Sep 10, 2014 at 19:10 | answer | added | StrongBad | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 10, 2014 at 16:25 | history | edited | Bob Brown | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Ungarbled the title; I don't remember whether I garbled it or whether that was others' editing.
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| Sep 10, 2014 at 16:17 | history | edited | Bob Brown | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added note that I've edited the tags.
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| Sep 10, 2014 at 14:36 | history | edited | Bob Brown | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Bogis word left in when editing. Sorry.
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| Sep 10, 2014 at 14:29 | history | edited | Bob Brown |
Removed my own tag of "cheating" and many others, leaving only "ethics" and "policy"
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| S Sep 10, 2014 at 14:23 | history | edited | Bob Brown | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Sep 10, 2014 at 14:23 | history | suggested | ChrisLively | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
OP has repeatedly stated that "cheating" is not germane to the question.
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| Sep 9, 2014 at 17:58 | answer | added | mechalynx | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 9, 2014 at 11:40 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | @Raphael: What you describe obviously doesn't help those students pass (not even close), and as such there seems to be no connection to the question. Academic misconduct usually refers to cases where someone gets themselves an unfair advantage. Getting oneself an unfair disadvantage could be seen as synonymous with "having insufficient skills for mastering the course", which means the students will remove themselves sooner or later by failing too many exams, thus that is not a situation that would require any action on behalf of the university. | |
| Sep 9, 2014 at 11:15 | comment | added | Christian | Given that you say "cheating" isn't relevant for your question it would be best if you simply removed that word from the question. | |
| Sep 9, 2014 at 11:11 | comment | added | Raphael | @O.R.Mapper Not quite. We would pose different exam questions, but some students would just consume problems+solutions as preparation and not train their solving skills. While not cheating, it's undesired which is why the department felt they had to act. | |
| Sep 9, 2014 at 11:00 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | @Raphael: That can only work if the exactly same questions are reused (and only a comparably small selection thereof), which comes back to Greg's initial comment. | |
| Sep 9, 2014 at 9:13 | comment | added | Raphael | At least two similar cases at my department were resolved by a stern talk with the dean. I wasn't there, but I assume that the consequences of the students' actions were made clear: "If you abuse the tools we give you, consider that we might not give you these tools in the future." Without fail, the "cheating" sites went away. (IIRC, they collected exercise and exam problems with solutions, thus creating the potential for other students to easily cheat themselves by not doing the problems themselves.) | |
| Sep 9, 2014 at 5:50 | history | edited | ff524 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
edited title to match question in body of post
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| Sep 9, 2014 at 5:44 | comment | added | ff524 | What, exactly, makes a website a "cheaters' web sites"? You refer to this several times; I honestly don't know what you mean. Is a "cheaters' web site" any website that disseminates exams or assignments, or is there something else about them that makes them "cheaters' sites"? The link you gave in another comment lists sites from which students plagiarize content, which doesn't seem to be what you're referring to. | |
| Sep 9, 2014 at 4:46 | answer | added | nickalh | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 9, 2014 at 3:02 | vote | accept | Bob Brown | ||
| Sep 9, 2014 at 2:19 | answer | added | Franck Dernoncourt | timeline score: 16 | |
| Sep 9, 2014 at 2:00 | answer | added | zxq9 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 9, 2014 at 1:41 | answer | added | user1482 | timeline score: 10 | |
| Sep 9, 2014 at 0:31 | answer | added | ChrisLively | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 9, 2014 at 0:19 | comment | added | Greg | @AnonymousMathematician Enforcing copyright is pretty labor-some, if you want to enforce on membership sites and similar closed places. | |
| Sep 9, 2014 at 0:16 | comment | added | Greg | @Moriarty Sorry, it is my bad English then. A post called "Is it a breach of academic conduct..?" with filled with thesis sentences like "My concern is whether contributing to them goes beyond bad to rise to the level of academic misconduct" is clearly not asking about if it is an academic misconduct, right? | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 22:04 | answer | added | D.W. | timeline score: 28 | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 21:51 | history | edited | Bob Brown | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Addeds/then/them/ question mark to title
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| Sep 8, 2014 at 17:55 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackAcademia/status/509037293844570112 | ||
| Sep 8, 2014 at 17:51 | comment | added | Anonymous Mathematician | Copyright infringement does not depend on making a profit, and in the U.S. you could use a DMCA take-down notice to get copyrighted materials removed from the web site, but this is a different issue than whether posting them was academic misconduct. I think you could make a reasonable case that violating copyright doesn't need a special university rule to be punishable by the university, but I imagine your colleague would like this punished more severely than copyright infringement might by itself be treated (and that just returns us to the question of what sort of academic misconduct it is). | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 17:47 | answer | added | Nahkki | timeline score: 25 | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 17:32 | comment | added | Moriarty | @Greg the text and title are perfectly clear. | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 17:25 | comment | added | Greg | @BobBrown I think then it is better if you upgrade your text, including your title according to. | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 17:24 | comment | added | Bob Brown | @Greg: Please re-read my question. I have not asked about the ethics of looking for answers, nor even about the ethics of contributing to sites that exist specifically to aid cheating. I've asked whether other institutions prohibit contributing to such sites. | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 17:22 | comment | added | Greg | @BobBrown So looking for answers in Yahoo!Answers and SlideShare is unethical... let's discuss it on StackExchange! Ironic | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 17:17 | comment | added | Bob Brown | @Greg: Examples of cheaters' web sites are here: cbsnews.com/news/8-top-websites-that-students-use-to-cheat | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 16:59 | comment | added | Greg | @aeismail True, but for copyright reasons and not moral reasons. | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 16:59 | comment | added | Bob Brown | @Chris C: I'm no expert o cheating sites, but at least one has the rule, "you have to contribute to see the other goodies." It might be a stretch to call that "profiting." I really am looking for best practices at other institutions. | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 16:58 | comment | added | Greg | @BobBrown Then I misunderstood your question. Can you specify what you mean by cheating websites, what time spam we talk about etc? What you mean by prohibition? I don't think that either practically or legally can make a bianco rule that prohibit to leak out any information about any study/test happens on lectures for forever. Is your question about the prohibition (last paragraph) or if is it a breach of academic conduct (title+first paragraph)? If it is not a breach, why would you prohibit? | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 16:57 | history | edited | aeismail |
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| Sep 8, 2014 at 16:54 | comment | added | aeismail | @Greg: The guides published by review companies do not use materials directly from the tests; they create their own material to "simulate" the exam questions. (I know people whose job it is to create "content" for their practice tests.) | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 16:53 | comment | added | Bob Brown | @Greg: All true, but not really relevant to my question. | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 16:51 | comment | added | Greg | What is cheating? Preparing to a test based on previous tests on the same subject? Than all the TOEFL and GRE textbooks are cheating books, from Kaplan to Princeton Review. If a student prepares from a similar test, it is not cheating, it is called studying. If the professor gives out the same test word-by-word every year, the blame is primarily on him (he is lazy) and not on the students who studied from old tests. It is only cheating if the people studied answers of the test that they suppose to take (e.g. someone take 1 day later because of illness or such). | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 16:51 | comment | added | Chris C | Might have a copyright argument if the students profited off submitting the assignments and exams. | |
| Sep 8, 2014 at 16:40 | history | edited | enthu |
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| Sep 8, 2014 at 16:32 | history | asked | Bob Brown | CC BY-SA 3.0 |