Friday, March 21, 2008

What is wrong with a Facebook study group?

Seriously, I'm asking.  

Somehow this Canadian University has leapt to the conclusion that a Facebook discussion group that is completely out in the open (much more so than a group that meets in person) is the same as cheating.  That the potential to cheat is somehow just as bad as actually doing it.   And that expulsion is the right reaction to an innovative use of technology.    It's all very confusing to me.  

Natasha Elkington, via Yahoo News
March 20, 2008