Collection

2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Stephan A. Durham; W. Micah Hale; Seamus Freyne

• Class Project • Extra CreditEach of these folders contains information that would traditionally be distributed during classtime in hard copy. With the course information and handouts online, the students can access thisinformation at anytime and anyplace. This also reduces the amount of printing and copying bythe instructor prior to class time and enables the instructor to better prepare for class.Course InformationPertinent course information is uploaded into the course information folder. The courseinformation folder contains the following files: • Course Syllabus • Lecture/Laboratory Schedule • Other Handouts “Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for

Collection

2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

William M. Baer

paper.Additionally, the upcoming generation views materials retrieved online differently than thoseobtained from other sources. Clifton Poole stated “there is a tendency to think that cutting andpasting from the Internet is a form of good research and not plagiarism.”6 Several students arefurther confused because of online access to scholarly journals and conference reports throughtheir libraries web sites. Townley and Parsell note that “the Internet presents mixed messagesthat may confuse people as to what is and what is not acceptable appropriation practice.”7 The Internet also facilitates the ultimate form of plagiarism, turning in someone else’spaper as one’s own. A simple search for “research papers” on Google will produce a list ofplaces to