It's about time someone made a point that has been lost in all the back-and-forth over Ryerson University's "Facebook scandal." That point is: The Facebook scandal doesn't really have anything to do with Facebook.
An engineering professor at the Toronto school gave his students a specific instruction that their take-home assignments should be done independently. One of those students, Chris Avenir, allegedly ignored the instruction, joined an existing study group devoted to the class, and invited everyone in it to "input solutions" to the assignments so they could be shared. He got caught, was given an F in the course, and is currently appealing his expulsion for academic misconduct. The fact that the study group was a Facebook group has nothing to do with the nature of the offence or the controversy over Mr. Avenir's punishment.
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