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he was charged with a whopping 146 other counts - one for every student who ever participated in it.
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Online study groups are a fact of life for many students, both in higher education and in secondary school. A quick search for study groups on Facebook alone brings up more than 500 results: chemistry groups, AP history groups, language groups, physics groups.
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it’s not just Facebook; study groups are popping up on do-it-yourself social networking sites like Ning.com and elsewhere, too.
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The lesson to be learned from this mess is that schools need to get a better grasp of how students create and use online study groups. They need to understand the spectrum of activities that can take place in them, from innocent - even productive - collaboration activities to organized cheating. Participating in an online study group isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It’s how the group is used that should taken into consideration. If a school’s acceptable use policy and academic rules in general don’t address a student’s rights and responsibilities when it comes to online study groups, they need to be re-examined.
Like it or not, your students are more comfortable organizing their own online discussions than most of us ever will, so you better lay out the rules as specifically and openly as possible.
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