[Air-L] Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in the Digital Age

[tom abeles]

Jana
This is an interesting entrance to a complex discussion. For example:
a) many students take courses because they are "required" and thus they "cram"/test/forget. Micro-learning fits the bill for the course but what does it mean for the long termb) on the "job" many people have needs that "happen". Healthcare professionals in rural areas who run into a new or difficult problemc) Given the speed of getting information, how much do we need to depend on going to long lectures- is there a better way to acquire dense and longitudinal knowledge?d) bots are able to access knowledge and make decisions in situations which are time critical- are there new roles that humans should be filling? slow knowledge like philosophy, the humanities?e)...
As micro-learning is described, its current embodiment is based on responding with old epistemologies to changing ontologies. Process Philosophy is now flowing into best practices in business/organizations. Why not in education?
thoughts?
tom
tom abeles

> Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 14:46:14 +0200
> From: jana.herwig at gmail.com
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in the Digital Age
> 
> In addition to Alex Halavais' (non-apologetic) notion of 'cheating
> good', I'd like to add that 'copying' or rather imitating can be an
> effective strategy in language-learning, again, if done right. I'll
> add a link to a paper on 'microplagiarism' as I dubbed it in
> preparation of the 2007 microlearning conference in Innsbruck, which
> looks at specifically this aspect:
> 
> http://www.scribd.com/mobile/documents/32515468
> 
> The full conference proceedings should also still be available on
> microlearning.org
> 
> best wishes
> 
> Jana Herwig
> University of Vienna, Austria
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