Matter remains unresolved

A case with Morrison Foerster and CourseRA has remained unresolved since its inception in early January 2017 (an entire year).

The case concerns a blatant and malicious attack on my academic and professional submission of an assignment for a course conducted in December 2016 entitled “Global Warming I”. The assignment, for Week 12 of the course, under scrutiny is “Temperature and Rainfall assessment for South Africa (1950 to 2015) to shape climate policies”.

The problem started when CourseRA condoned the behaviour of another CourseRA learner who had publicly commented in the course forum that “...author is a scientist who is too advanced to be taking this class...”., amongst other similar comments, including one concerning plagiarism. In each instance, the statements made were a violation of Code of Conduct of CourseRA.

I urged CourseRA that my assignment should be reviewed by the course co-ordinator, the course presenter, and also again by the learner who made the harmful allegations. I challenge the statement made on plagiarism, and the inappropriateness of the comment pertaining to my serious commitment to do well in the course.

In addition, representatives of CourseRA (Max, Alex, Frank) stalled to escalate this matter, and took an inappropriately long time to provide me with your contact details. These representatives were not pro-active in resolving the matter, to the point that the case is still unresolved to date with their legal representatives, Morrison Foerster..

I provided a full list of references for the work compiled, and through a daily usage of MS ExcelTM, I am able to utilise to the full extend the program to generate the necessary statistics for the assignment.

It is also to be noted that do date, I have not received an apology from the learner, not from CourseRA, for the false allegations made against my person. Keeping in mind that the peer reviewers in the course can be potential clients/customers or employers, this reflects poorly on my character. Simply removing the comment is insufficient, and does not resolve the case, nor the fact that the case has not progressed, and certainly, it has not been resolved.

No progress has been on this case, by either CourseRA or their legal representatives Morrison Foerster.