Re: [Phys-l] Cheating, a great argument against online courses.

["LaMontagne, Bob" <RLAMONT@providence.edu>]

I take pictures of all my students on the first day of class. It allows me to connect the face with the name as I grade homework. It also helps jog my memory when one of them asks for a recommendation 5 years later. Using this method I get all the names down in about two weeks. Many students remark how they appreciate it and how they have gone entire semesters without instructors knowing their name.

Bob at PC

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From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu [phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu] On Behalf Of Bernard Cleyet [bernardcleyet@redshift.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 2:08 AM
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Subject: Re: [Phys-l] Cheating, a great argument against online courses.

I, until now, wondered why Garrett Hardin had his staff photograph all his intro. students.   He'd look thru them while he invigilated.

bc naive, and took (ca 1963) his grad course (one unit; one paper and discussion at his home)  [the texts were The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and An Anthology of Partly Baked Ideas.]

On 2010, Nov 15, , at 16:19, John Clement wrote:

>  I have no idea how many ghost
> test takers there were.  But it seems that this happens even when the
> professor probably has contact with the student in question.

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