I agree with the concept of an open book test. It is important the students know where to get the informtation and how to apply it, not necessarily short term memorization.
I disagree. We should be concerned with cheating in an online and traditional classroom environment. Anyone cheating will bring down the value of the degrees we have all worked so hard to obtain.
We should all be concerned about students cheating in an online environment and on the ground in live classes too.
I agree this will always be an issue. But we have so many ways now to monitor it online, it is becoming less with turn it in and many websites, we as professors need to be pro-active.
There is a greater potential for cheating in an online setting since the student isn't proctored on exams. All we get is a submitted assignment, we aren't able to have face to face interaction with the student so even plagiarism is more difficult to detect.
Cheating is universal--- online or traditional it occurs. We can't stop it completely online but can incorporate into the classes various methods to check on integrity. It would be great if we didn't ever have to worry about this but unfortunately that is not the case.
I agree with this--- a person who would cheat in a traditional course will cheat in the online environment and the opposite occurs as well. It is all about the morals of the individual and how much they believe they can get for minimal work if necessary.
I believe instructors need to be concerned and mindful about cheating in both traditional and online environments. Cheating can sometimes be harder to find and prove in online environments, but this should force instructors to do due diligence in staying on top of assignments and reading student responses careefully.
How can you be sure the person submitting the work....did the work?
One thing to consider when designing an online course is, as an instructor, you have to assume that the students are going to be using their notes, course content, textbooks, and any other resources avaiable to them when completing assignments, quizzes, and exams. With this in mind, the instructor can create said assignments in a manner that will still give the students the appropriate learning outcomes, and sastify the assignment requirements, and course requirements.
Teachers should always be concerned of cheating even though the way students cheat in an online setting may be different than in a traditional class. The most prevalent form of cheating online in my opinion is plagiarism.
Cheating is the same in either environment. It is simply use dishonesty for personal gain.
We should be concerned about students cheating in an online environment and onground enviornment. Cheating robs the student of the intellectual stimulation to advance themselves to become better free thinking individuals.
Copying and pasting from sites like Wikipedia, for example, blocks students from engaging themselves fully in the course and enhancing their information seeking and evaluation skills, a critical success factor in the information age. Cheating should never be tolerated and on written assignments of any substantial length, the instructor should make sure that plagiarism, for example, is avoided.
There's a significant potential for cheating in an online environment. There are some tools that are helpful, like turnitin.
It's really important for any online school to have clear and enforceable academic honesty policies. It's doubly important that the individual instructors apply those standards and that the school supports the instructors.
I strongly disagree with that statement.
The means that students may use to cheat in an online environment may differ slightly. Where I teach, we do not administer exams. Instead, we assign several individual projects, discussion forums and group projects. Occasionally, a student may try to circumvent the learning process by constructing their paper with material that they have cut and pasted from their sources. That doesn't facilitate learning. And, after all, that's why we do this.
at the end of the day, students need to be held to standards. If we allow them to cheat, why not just take the money and print the degree without training.
Students can cheat in either environment. It is easier to identify within the classroom itself. Any papers written could contain plaigerism whether online or in the classroom. Instructors have to watch for this in both environments.
I do believe we should be concerned about cheating and engineer our policies as well as the assignments to discourage this practice.
In the assignments, we can make them specific to the student or experience to make it less likely for them to share answers or copy directly from another source. We can also run the submitted assignments through software to assess similarity to other sources.
What about other subjects like math, history or psychology?
thank you for mentioning K-12....I see this an up and coming demographic.
Catherine,
Any student caught cheating should be disciplined.
There should be zero tolerance and mechanism put in place for detection.
Dr.Austin Umezurike
