[drekk]

This attitude does a lot to explain the quality of pedagogy to me. Why waste everyone's time and money with the course if students won't engage with the material? Plagiarism (or outright fabrication) in academia is a serious problem and can bubble up into things like the "modern" anti-vaxxer movement.

If it's low stakes all the more embarrassing to the students for risking their personal and professional reputation so trivially