I disagree, in many of my classes, I see the assignments they same as they would be for an on-ground student. Find the answer to this question or provide your feedback to this statement.
Students still need to research the answers and provide some form of submission regardless of where or how they submit it. Cheating can occur anyplace.
For examples, what stops me from simply copying someone's post to this topic and posting it as my own. I think the online environment might actually make it easier to copy-n-paste an and answer or response and cause higher levels of cheating incidents.
-- Matt
Cheating is cheating, and where there's a will, there's a way, so it should be of some concern. Given I may not be as technologically saavy as the younger generation though, I cant imagine a way to "easily" cheat... in other words, cheating may be more "work" than actually doing the assignment in an online environment.
Tara,
You can look for clues in their writing style, If their e-mails, discussion posts, etc. are not written in the same voice, then you may want to google a phrase or two of the paper and see if the source pops up.
Sometimes students will copy directly from Wikipedia or other sources and leave the hyperlinks in the paper. You can click on one of these links and it will take you directly to the source.
Cheating is the same whether in an online or face to face environment. Students are cheating themselves. It never ceases to amaze me how students will cut and paste an article directly from Wikipedia and include the links.
I think it is important to let students know that they must use their own words in order to assess their mastery in meeting the assignment objectives. Learning to paraphrase and cite reference material is an important skill that is needed in the real world.
It is the same! A student should hopefully consider that learning and dicovery is a personal contribution to self as well as others. If you cheat, you're not learning...If you're not learning, you're not growing. Because it's online does't make a diffrence.
Cheating is cheating!!! the one that makes a point to ask for answers or info. without taking personal responsibility for his/her own education usually misses the big picture.....this penicle time of discover and challenge of one's self to expand their degree of learning for self and by one's self.
We should always be concerned about cheating, whether it is online, or in the traditional classroom. The delivery systems may be different, but the concepts are the same. All forms of cheating and plagiarism should be dealt with as if the student were stealing. Stealing is not tolerated in the outside, professional, or academic worlds. It should not be rewarded in the online environment either.
We should always be concerned about cheating, whether it is online, or in the traditional classroom. The delivery systems may be different, but the concepts are the same. All forms of cheating and plagiarism should be dealt with as if the student were stealing. Stealing is not tolerated in the outside, professional, or academic worlds. It should not be rewarded in the online environment either.
Allinda,
We should, indeed, stress to students that it does hurt them in the end.
Shelly Crider
Douglas,
It is true, sad, but true!
Shelly Crider
We should always be concerned about cheating whether online or in the classroom environment. Tests and the testing environment can be designed to help minimize the opportunity to cheat and, of course, students caught cheating should be dealt with accordingly. It doesn't hurt to emphasize with students that, even if they get away with cheating, in the long-run they are only hurting themselves. As many on the forum have already pointed out, there will be no one from whom to cheat once they are on the job and if they don't know their stuff then, they won't stay employed for long.
Sadly some students will always cheat. Some are just lazy yet some will give in to the temptation of finding an easy answer or method instead of applying themselves. As I saw in another post, I encourage my students to make themselves prepared to handle situations themselves.
june,
Turnitin is a very nice resource.
Shelly Crider
Cheating hurts the student as well as their peers, furthermore it is a poor reflection on the learning institution and decreases the value of the earned degree. Just as I use methods to avoid cheating in the live classroom, I always use programs such as Turnitin to avoid cheating in an online classroom.
Totally disagree.
Cheating is cheating. I have faced this first hand as an online instructor. You can start seeing patterns in assignments.
In my case the same assignment was turned in by three students with little to no change in content. Upon investigation it was found that one student was doing the work for three. The other two were paying to get the class completed.
This is no different than in a large university where one student attends the lectures or does the work for another student.
Again cheating is cheating and must be dealt with.
David,
There is always a new way of cheating. We as instructors need to be able to slow it down however we can.
Shelly Crider
It's not that we should be unconcerned about cheating, but we kid ourselves in thinking that we can control it.
Our students will always be one step ahead of us--we need to make sure they are aware of the consequences if they are caught, but at the end of the day they are adults and will have to live with themselves and their actions.
Dave Rakowski
Marjorie,
Even in the online platform....you can get the feel of how one writes through the discussion posts!
Shelly Crider
Cheating can occur at either ground or on-line learning. One way to look at it is the writing style of a person. I notice that with my students I can tell when someone wrote a paper for them as it is different than the writing style while in the classroom.
Michael,
Acing several quizzes in a row is even more suspicious!
Shelly Crider
