“Integral to higher education, academic integrity stands as a cornerstone of academic life. However, compelling evidence of widespread academic dishonesty among Net-Generation students threatens to undermine both the environment of trust that nourishes integrity and the safeguards that help ensure it. Working from their experience with widespread cheating on low-stakes quizzes in a large introductory information systems class, Valerie Milliron and Kent Sandoe describe the Net Generation’s culture of cheating and explore ways to detect and deter cheating. Detailing technological, content-based, and behavioral approaches to detection and deterrence, Milliron and Sandoe provide an overview of the extent and the nature of cheating within the Net Generation.”
Month: August 2008
Why Professor Johnny Can’t Read:
“One way of better understanding Net-Generation learners is to examine the texts they create on online social networking, blogging, and image sites as well as in virtual worlds. Mark Mabrito and Rebecca Medley explore the nature of Net-Generation texts as a reflection of the cognitive differences between this generation’s students and their older instructors, discuss the unique challenges this group of learners may present for instructors who do not share their technological immersion, and suggest the means by which such challenges may be overcome. To accommodate the needs of the Net Generation, Mabrito and Medley suggest that faculty must reconsider traditional pedagogy and integrate more innovative ways of instruction for this significantly different population of students.”
Virtual creatures and robots take on ‘a life of their own’
“A new way to allow simulated and real robots to take on a life of their own is under development by a German team with colleagues at Edinburgh University.”
Call for papers for DIVISION SESSIONS for the 2009 Cultural Studies Association
Call for papers for DIVISION SESSIONS for the 2009 Cultural Studies Association
Seventh Annual Cultural Studies Association Conference
Marriott (at the Plaza), Kansas City
April 16-18, 2009
Additional information about the CSA meetings can be found at:
http://www.csaus.pitt.edu/frame_home.htm
Division sessions are guaranteed acceptance for the conference.
Note the specific directions and different due dates for the various divisions.