College students are learning hard lessons about anti-cheating software
Fuck grades.<p>They were already a problem in universities and this is their final and worst form.<p>University systems have the major problem that a significant portion of students are only there for a degree, and their participation is playing the game in order to get that piece of paper, and the GPA number rating them.<p>The core of this problem is the question “will this be on the exam?”<p>Testing of course can be an important part of learning, but making that the metric by which you decide to hand out degrees substantially damages the value of testing as a teaching tool, and damages the value of a university as a place for research and learning.<p>Another way needs to be found to sort students into degree worthiness.<p>Raising humans for the first quarter of their lives in a dystopian police state is not what anybody should strive for.  We need to figure out how to measure people less.