Hi All

Yes, I also don't think that banning them is the solution, but it does achieve one thing: it gives legal weight to a university's actions. It's one thing having a university rule that says students are not allowed to use them, but, if they are considered illegal, that will give universities greater clout. (The danger, though, as I think you fear, is that universities stop there, and don't take any educational and other steps, relying only on the law. That will not be entirely effective.)

Regards

Ken

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Dr. Ken Masters
Asst. Professor: Medical Informatics
Medical Education & Informatics Department
College of Medicine & Health Sciences
SQU, Sultanate of Oman
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AMEE Guide to the e-patient http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0142159X.2017.1324142

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On 27 September 2018 at 09:09, Dr. Mike Reddy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Ok, I’m going to court controversy here but banning #contractcheating #essaymills is the wrong solution to the wrong problem.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-45640236

#plagiarism and (my preferred term) #academicoutsourcing are symptoms of HE being a 19th C technology in a 21st C world.
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