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Reviews processes for developing storylines and presents a planning tool to connect learning experiences to a storylines to aid in project based science units.

Emma Baccellieri | Thursday, November 6 2014The computer science department has launched an investigation into academic integrity violations in core course Computer Science 201. All students who are currently enrolled in the class and who took the class in Spring 2014 received an email Wednesday night, notifying them that concerns about academic dishonesty have prompted a review of assignments.

Editorial Board | Tuesday, November 11 2014Some students enrolled in Computer Science 201 found themselves especially anxious evening. The cause wasn't an upcoming midterm exam, but an email from the computer science department notifying students of an investigation into cheating in the class.

Enrollment in undergraduate computer science courses is at an all-time high at colleges nationwide. But this trend that's been hailed by the U.S. tech industry has a dark side: a disproportionate number of students taking these courses are caught cheating. Enrollment in undergraduate computer science courses is at an all-time high at colleges nationwide.

Objective: This paper presents the results of data gathered on copyright questions asked at an academic health sciences library. Methods: Collected data include questioner's status or discipline, the subject of the questions, the types of activities that the questioners were engaged in, the communication mode, and the length of time it took to answer the questions. Results: Overall results showed most questions were about permissions. Staff asked the most questions, followed by faculty and students. Conclusions: Copyright education is needed at universities, and further analysis of queries will determine the direction of the education.

Many computer science teachers are very concerned about students cheating in their courses. Surveys report that almost three-quarters of high school students admit to cheating within the past year. John Barrie, founder of the plagiarism-detecting Web site Turnitin.com, says that about a third of the papers submitted to the site have significant levels of plagiarism.

Open source software has made inroads into mainstream computing where it was once the territory of software altruists, and the open source culture of technological collegiality and accountability may benefit education as well as industry. This paper describes the Recourse project, which seeks to transform the computer science undergraduate curriculum through teaching methods based on open source principles, values, ethics, and tools. Recourse differs from similar projects by bringing the open source culture into the curriculum comprehensively, systematically, and institutionally. The current state of the project is described, and initial results from a pilot exercise are presented.(

from the article: "...Too many of the findings that fill the academic ether are the result of shoddy experiments or poor analysis (see article). A rule of thumb among biotechnology venture-capitalists is that half of published research cannot be replicated. Even that may be optimistic.."

The technological development of big data has been considered a phenomenon over the last few years. In this article, authors (Wendy Arianne Günthe, rMohammad H.Rezazade, Mehrizi Marleen Huysman, Frans Feldberg) explore the social and economic values of utilization of these data-sets within organizations --- identifying six debates around how organizations should realize the value from big data at different levels of analysis and practices to re-adjust their priorities and structure in order to benefit from big data science.

Study examining a failed (authors' conclusion) teacher assessment program in Ontario, circa 2000.

EDU681102 - Module 1, Week 2. Mark Ness, article #1

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We describe a cheating strategy enabled by the features of massive open online courses (MOOCs) and detectable by virtue of the sophisticated data systems that MOOCs provide. The strategy, Copying Answers using Multiple Existences Online (CAMEO), involves a user who gathers solutions to assessment questions using a "harvester" account and then submits correct answers using a separate "master" account. We use "clickstream" learner data to detect CAMEO use among 1.9 million course participants in 115 MOOCs from two universities. Using conservative thresholds, we estimate CAMEO prevalence at 1,237 certificates, accounting for 1.3% of the certificates in the 69 MOOCs with CAMEO users. Among earners of 20 or more certificates, 25% have used the CAMEO strategy. CAMEO users are more likely to be young, male, and international than other MOOC certificate earners. We identify preventive strategies that can decrease CAMEO rates and show evidence of their effectiveness in science courses.

Abstract: In this paper we present a new cheating technique that is successful at defeating cheating detectors and could become popular with students. The idea is to use obfuscating code transformations (such as those found in the SANDMARK tool) to apply a sequence of minor code transformations to a copied programming assignment. This purpose is to produce a copy that will defeat detection. We show that this technique is successful in defeating common plagiarism detectors such as Moss. This paper is offered as a cautionary tale to the Computer Science teaching community. With the advent of powerful code transformation tools it will become necessary to develop correspondingly more powerful cheating detectors, or to revert back to manually testing for plagiarism.