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[ PRIVACY Forum ] The challenge of stopping online course cheating
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PRIVACY Forum mailing list)
Sun Jun 3 14:27:13 2012
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The challenge of stopping online course cheating
http://j.mp/JESvUr (Chronicle of Higher Education)
"Easy A's may be even easier to score these days, with the growing
popularity of online courses. Tech-savvy students are finding ways to
cheat that let them ace online courses with minimal effort, in ways
that are difficult to detect. Take Bob Smith, a student at a public
university in the United States. This past semester, he spent just 25
to 30 minutes each week on an online science course, the time it took
him to take the weekly test. He never read the online materials for
the course and never cracked open a textbook. He learned almost
nothing. He got an A. His secret was to cheat, and he's proud of the
method he came up with-though he asked that his real name and college
not be used, because he doesn't want to get caught. It involved four
friends and a shared Google Doc, an online word-processing file that
all five of them could read and add to at the same time during the
test."
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