George and I started thinking, what can we do to get our hands around this issue,вЂќ said Dixon, an assistant professor of humanities and communication. Supreme Court will hear Harvard and UNC affirmative action cases.Returns on investment for low-income students.President resigns at FIU for causing colleague 'discomfort'.One person looked through and said, вЂI just wrote that course and thereвЂ™s one of the major assignments, a final paper, up there.вЂ™вЂќ

вЂњYou open your laptop and say, вЂWhat course do you teach?вЂ™ You throw that up and you see 900 or 1,200 artifactsвЂќ - documents related to the course - вЂњand you can cursorily look through them. Professors have long been concerned about the risk of student cheating posed by students sharing copyrighted course documents, including tests and quizzes, on Course Hero, which bills itself as ' an online learning platform of course-specific study resources.'ДЄsk any faculty member if they know about Course Hero, and they'll say, 'IвЂ™ve heard a little bit about it, but tell me more,вЂќ said George, an associate professor in Embry-RiddleвЂ™s College of Aeronautics, which has its main campuses in Arizona and Florida. What if they could come up with an automated way to help professors identify content from their courses that had been shared on the site, and request its removal? Zachary Dixon and Kelly George, both professors at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, were at a faculty meeting and commiserating about Course Hero, a website students use to upload and share documents related to their courses, when an idea came to them.

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