Title :
How to have the Web playing on your side
Author :
Clúa, Osvaldo ; Feldgen, María
Author_Institution :
Buenos Aires Univ., Argentina
Abstract :
The authors describe the results of their experience in the way students are using the Internet. They also found a lot of cheating attitudes, some of them they believe involuntary. They developed some ways of incorporating the Internet to their courses, in order to change the cheating attitude in a healthier research attitude. They address two types of use of the Web: programming assignments; and report written assignments, presenting their experience in both areas. After some experience of using the Web with the courses where they detected cheating, students attitude changed. In this paper, the authors present their experiences with both types of courses discussing their findings and suggesting some approaches.
Keywords :
Internet; computer science education; educational courses; engineering education; professional aspects; teaching; Internet; Web; cheating; courses; engineering students; ethics; experiences; programming assignments; report written assignments; research attitude; writing activities; Computer languages; Dynamic programming; Education; Ethics; Greedy algorithms; Internet; Operating systems; Plagiarism; Programming profession; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education, 2002. FIE 2002. 32nd Annual
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7444-4
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.2002.1158646