In another MOOC she took run by a University of Pennsylvania professor, a half-dozen teaching assistants shepherded student discussion online and cheating was much less pervasive, she said.

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But some efforts are at risk of stalling at the discussion stage, since teaching business ethics faces roadblocks from faculty and recruiters alike.

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The two day consultation featured discussion on journalism curricula, teaching resources, assessment systems, external links and recognition and coherent institutional development plans, providing stakeholders with an informed platform on which to initiate partnerships, best practice and knowledge exchange initiatives.

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"We've learned it's important to set up vivid analogies, " said Lyle Tomlinson, a 24-year-old neuroscience graduate student from Brooklyn who's working as a teaching assistant, noting he used the effects of caffeine in a morning cup of coffee to begin a discussion on the nervous system.

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