Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
Well this is a good point. How can anti-plagiarism services operate without ignoring copyright? "They object to Turnitin's automatically adding their essays to the massive database, calling it an infringement of intellectual property rights." It's a good point, as is the presumption of guilt implicit in use of the service. "It's like if you searched every car in the parking lot or drug-tested every student." As more and more students learn of the double standards employed in their education, one has to ask what they will learn: whether such double standards ought to be avoided, or whether they are the norm in law, life, and everywhere...?

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