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Universities plan to track students

vendredi 22 janvier 2016 à 01:00

Universities plan to track everything students do, and everywhere they go.

If this is really for the student's benefit, they should leave all the data on the student's own computer, to be collected and then used by free software on that computer. There is no need to be concerned with possible "cheating", since the student would cheat only perself.(*)

* Since use of "they" in singular offends my sense of correct English, I sometimes use Marge Piercy's nongendered third-person pronouns, "person", "per" and "pers". They work like "she", "her" and "hers" but specify nothing about the referent's gender. See the novel, Woman on the Edge of Time.