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ERIC Number: EJ1233121
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Nov
Pages: 20
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: EISSN-1941-3432
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University Online Cheating -- How to Mitigate the Damage
Norris, Mark
Research in Higher Education Journal, v37 Nov 2019
The delivery of online university courses has continued to grow for more than a decade. New advances in technology have made the efficient delivery of courses possible, as well as increasing the collections of tools for students to cheat. Cheating results in the atrophy of the student's academic integrity, it has the potential to damage a university's reputation, it causes employers to lose faith in the competencies of graduates, and it wastes the large amounts of time and resources that have been devoted to the development of new knowledge and skills that are not subsequently obtained. As new technological tools are introduced to improve the delivery of courses, there has been a similar increase in the proliferation of methods for students to cheat. This article examines the history and motivations for cheating and the proliferating number of entrepreneurs and products available to assist students in completing their courses in ways that compromise academic integrity. Solutions are examined that offer alternatives for developing and enforcing academic integrity policies and preventing the occurrence of online cheating.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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