Panlab

what do we need to do after the meeting? sorry, i had to leave
early that day. thanks

thanks for organizing this. could you please put in $20 and
sign the cards for me? just went to your office but did not see you. i’ll
give you the money this thursday as we meet. thanks. (on sabbatical)

Thanks for sharing the thoughts (did not quote them to keep things shorter
😉 dealing with plagiarism needs a systematic approach, i.e., all course
instructors do things consistently and persistently, as each of us only
teaches at most a few courses out of a long list that our students take

one thing i cannot understand academic cheating is why students pay high
tuition and get “cheated” themselves with a false sense of satisfaction.
when i explain my wondering to students, i noticed that most students do
realize cheating is stupid—especially none of them want to “be cheated”

catch and punish (for education purposes) the hardcore and chronic,
motivate the middle ground toward the right direction, and help the top to
excel further probably is a good way to have an open and fair environment
and needs the effort of all of us. thanks again for the topic

similar “attempts” on random talks and scigen by mit students 😉

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/

nevertheless, making students/alumni happier 5 years from now probably is
more important as part of the teaching/learning evaluation. cheers

thanks for raising the awareness. according to a slashdot story
“Researchers uncovered one trend among the cheaters: the perception that
teaching assistants either ignored or didn’t care about cheating.”

we have to show to our students and others that we do care

Survey Finds Cheating Among Students At All GPA Levels

An anonymous reader writes “Over a third of undergraduate students
admitted to some form of cheating at one of America’s top research
universities, according to a survey published November in the journal
Science and Engineering Ethics (abstract). The researchers expected to
find more cheating among the top-performing group — and at the minimum at
least some students with excellent grades cheated. Not so. As it turned
out, the overall cheating rate was similar to that found in other studies,
but the types of cheating and stated reasons for cheating were all over
the map. Researchers uncovered one trend among the cheaters: the
perception that teaching assistants either ignored or didn’t care about
cheating.”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Article:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/11/07/221228/survey-finds-cheating-among-students-at-all-gpa-levels?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

and this year’s ieeextreme problem set

http://panlab.cs.uvic.ca/webb/download.php?id=10742

(somehow ieee did not make it public, so please use with cares 😉

good idea! do you have an all-area panel now? i can offer another biased
coin as well. it will be great to see if we can round-robin labs/profs to
give talks on what’s cooking in their lab/research area. cheers