Reducing cheating in an online class

Reducing Cheating in an Online Class

 

Cheating is either an act of greed or an act of desperation

Reason does not prevail in the mind of the actor in any of the 2 situations

--greed, desperation

Deterrent is a must, not so much an appeal

 

Cheating in online classes is hardly different from cheating in f2f classes

--only greater opportunities to cheat

      --heightened collaboration opportunity in an online (offsite) test

      --greater possibility of using unapproved resources

      --increased likelihood of someone other than the student taking the

        test

 

Some of the ways to reduce cheating in an online class

--scramble the test

--randomly select a set of questions from a large database

--ask application questions

--course design

    --have many (10 or more) graded pretests

    --give a final comprehensive

    --make the final f2f

 

For more information, visit:

http://www.vcu.edu/cte/resources/newsletters_archive/OC0704.pdf