I didn’t find this story about accusations of mass cheating at the University of Central Florida terribly interesting until I read this on Hacker News.
News: Cheating and the Generational Divide – Inside Higher Ed
Aside from the generational argument (only politics and religion get people going like generational biases), I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Blame the intertubes.
Hot on the heals of the internet is public domain mess, we get another gray area where information was obtained from and distributed via the web.
Not that licensing matters here, but this is another case where the internets may be killed as the messenger, i.e. it’s a medium where right and wrong do not exist.
Just saying.
Like Kobayashi Maru, perhaps cheating in a business school shows the initiative to compete in a business environment when ethics varies across cultures.
Ha, nice one. Somehow I doubt UCF would see the wit and truth in that statement though.