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Re:Against Cop Shit by mjw1007 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @02:17PM (#23542306)
In principle, you remove the incentive for plagiarism by making the students' reward for their work be what they learn as a result, rather than some kind of certificate.
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Re:Against Cop Shit by notJim on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @02:23PM (#23542383)
Oh cool, so we just need to fix a massive social problem that's generated by long-running structural trends within our society and economy. Then we can stop using plagiarism detection software.
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Re:Against Cop Shit by notkaiho on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @02:27PM (#23542439)
... So we shouldn't try to fix the problem?
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Re:Against Cop Shit by notJim on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @02:48PM (#23542662)
Of course we should, but we shouldn't be naive about the challenge doing so represents.
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