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Third of four sons. Hail from Ohio. Live in Santa Cruz. I like the ocean. Training rocks!

No child left what?

By Jeff Gallagher (Intel) (8 posts) on August 15, 2008 at 10:48 am
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Seems to me over the years that I've watched some pretty good instructors, both in business and the public- and private-school sectors (yes, like many of you, I've been exposed to all of these environments at various times). It's a privilege to watch some as they work; for others, a mere pleasure. The good [...]

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Dirty Rotten Cheaters in the News (Fall 2007)

By Jeff Gallagher (Intel) (8 posts) on October 19, 2007 at 9:06 am
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Oh, Canada! A McGill University student, sophomore Jesse Rosenfeld, objected to the mandatory use of a plagiarism-detection website (Turnitin.com) and won his appeal with the local senate committee. No, I am not making this up. Rosenfeld, who would probably politely be called a “B or C” student here in the USA, said he had “an ethical and political [...]

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Dirty Rotten Cheaters in the News (June 2007)

By Jeff Gallagher (Intel) (8 posts) on July 30, 2007 at 11:22 am
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Professional Schools and Cheating Professionals Catching cheaters is the easy way to find out who is cheating. (Duh.) Otherwise, you survey students and ask them to be honest about their dishonesty. Strangely, students usually seem to reply with candor in such surveys. Seems now in the USA that professional schools (schools that produce dentists, doctors, and other [...]

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Dirty Rotten Cheaters in the News (May 2007)

By Jeff Gallagher (Intel) (8 posts) on May 3, 2007 at 1:06 pm
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Man's best friend? Patna University in India has done some creative thinking to prevent cheating by students on exams: sniffer dogs! Well, dogs in combination with private security guards, anyway. This is the first time the dogs were in use, and also the first time that private security guards were used instead of state police(!) to sniff [...]

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Dirty Rotten Cheaters in the News (April 2007)

By Jeff Gallagher (Intel) (8 posts) on April 10, 2007 at 1:16 pm
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Oh sure, get all legal on me NOW... Bhavnagar University (India) may soon want a patent on the methods of cheating used by its students in exams. As preposterous as it may sound, BU recently refused to give information sought under the Right to Information Act on copying methods used in exams, stating that it was [...]

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Class Rules rule!

By Jeff Gallagher (Intel) (8 posts) on November 29, 2006 at 12:26 am
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Ancient history in internet time is six months ago; however again, I dare to set the way-back machine to the early 1990's, yet one more time" "I had just come from working with a major hardware vendor located in Ohio, where field engineers took classes that required *months* to complete. The engineer-students were housed on a [...]

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Warm ups

By Jeff Gallagher (Intel) (8 posts) on October 12, 2006 at 10:16 pm
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You know there's a special place in my heart for teaching UNIX or LINUX system administration classes, even though I haven't taught one in a decade. Such classes are usually a week long which actually gives you a real chance to get to know your students. Also, the classes typically involve huge amounts of work, [...]

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Saying the same thing 10 different ways

By Jeff Gallagher (Intel) (8 posts) on September 25, 2006 at 10:18 pm
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As a sometime instructor with a pedagogy degree or two from the last century it's pretty easy for me to fess up here: I hate it when I attend a class, any class " on software or you name it -- and the instructor only knows one way to explain a concept to the class. [...]

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