Thursday, December 6, 2007

The Last Minute Crunch

Almost exam time, oh no! Students are finding themselves scattering to get last minute projects finished and turned it. While, it is a busy time with an unending workload, students may find themselves taking shortcuts to get their work down. Ok, we've all done it. Half-assed one assignment so that you could devote more time to another. In some circumstances this is necessary with professors pulling big assignments out thin air right when you have a million other things done.
Some students however have found other ways to try to get this work done by using each other as resources. I was recently talking to a friend that was doing an extra credit project for her class. The professor was letting her class attend up to 2 seminars for extra credit. She and another person in the class agreed to swap notes so that they could both get extra credit for 2 seminars. Is this ethical? If the professor had intended the seminars as a learning experience, are the students getting out of it what the professor wanted? In a time crunch, what would you do?

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