K-12 teachers often require students to work in groups. Most universities encourage study groups. Is it sinister if students study online?
Toronto’s Ryerson University threatened to expel first-year computer engineering student Chris Avenir last week, arguing that his study group on the Facebook networking site might encourage cheating.
Avenir is still in school but earned no credits for the course.
Members of the Facebook study group - Dungeons/Mastering Chemistry Solutions - said the group was set up to help each other with homework assignments and to understand class lectures, and had nothing to do with cheating.
Ryerson, however, said the group offered the potential for cheating on a large scale.
Actually, it’s easier to monitor cheating online, pointed out Megan Boler, a University of Toronto philosophy and media studies professor. If students are cheating on Facebook, there will be a record.
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