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Are search engines taking the place of college professors?

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Yahoo posted  it take on it earlier today citing a post from SEO In-House.  For traditional college professors, this is frightening. They, like most professors today stressed referencing actual books than online references.  When I taught a few years ago, the sources for most papers were 66% online and a third from books. It is probably more online now.

I’m actually reminded of an incident 5 years ago when I found a student’s marketing plan online. It is up to professors to set the tone now and not a day before a paper is due to lay down the law on references and formats.

“Eagle Eye” Cockerl

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For the first time in my Academic Career, plagiarism has knocked on my door. None the less, “Eagle Eye” (a name given to me by a colleague) noticed that the papers were too perfect. Lo and behold, I did a google search and I found them on the web. Talk about the students sending me on a virtual adventure!
The outcome, I failed the student. School policy. In this day and age, professors need to be just as savvy as students.