Information overload

The other day I was clearing out my eMail inbox of all the unimportant messages I’d not had time to read yet, as I’ve done before. But this time the thought struck me of how things have changed, we still can have lots to process but now it appears to be easier to fall into the trap of subscribing to so many things. How did this happen and how can it be managed?

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Infinite Monkey’s

There is a saying that I know of along the lines that given enough time then a group monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare. This then lead to a thought on if it actually happened then would it be a copyright infringement? Probably not given the time that has transpired, but then consider if instead of it being a random act, then what if the monkeys had just copied the text by learning how to use the keys Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V effectively? Then how could we tell the difference? With that thought in mind, then how can assessors of work on an online eLearning platform then detect plagiarism?

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