Thomas Edison State University suspended indefinitely Shmoop courses

[a2jc4life]

I'm curious now what they saw as a surprising number of courses in a given time frame, because I was thinking the same as Amy -- if you already know (or mostly know) the material, blowing through a course is not dissimilar to taking a CLEP. If *one* person did that and set off their alarm bells, I don't understand why they're looking into Shmoop as opposed to the individual student.

My exams aren't proctored in my "normal" online courses, either. Theoretically, you could probably Google your way through them. But it's a violation of the academic honesty policy to cheat (duh), and if a student is found cheating, the logical course of action is to discipline the student, not decide the course is broken.

It still just seems like a bit of an overreaction, to me, to suddenly change the rules overnight. (And that's the part that bothers me. They can accept or not accept whatever they want, but they're not acting in good faith with students when they change the rules on things without warning.)