Ryerson Student faces Facebook consequences

[jason]

Originally published at Lemmingworks. You can comment here or there.

The Toronto Star reports: Freshman hit with 147 academic charges for online study network at Ryerson University. “Ryerson student Chris Avenir is facing expulsion for taking part in a Facebook study group for one of his engineering courses.” I don’t think it appropriate for me to comment on this because I don’t know the facts, and it seems that some comments in the article do not match what I know about university policies, so there may be some confusion or spin going on. It is an unfortunate situation for all involved, but I hope that this clarifies what is and is not appropriate to do online. Perhaps nothing was done wrong, and I hope they find out soon one way or another.

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Freshman Charges

[nwilliam.livejournal.com]

To think that there is no "paper trail," one would be fooling themselves. That being said, one has no control over what another would post to them, and if it crossed the line of academic integrity would someone saying thank you be a term of endearment or acknowledgment that a line was crossed. 147 charges may not translate into 147 counts but this does acknowledge that action and clarification is needed on Ryersons end. Blanket policies need to keep up with the tech.

Re: Freshman Charges

[complicittheory.livejournal.com]

good questions. I can't wait to see how it plays out.