This article describes five different types of online cheating - plagiarism, fabrication, falsification, misrepresentation, and misbehavior. This article then goes in to three areas - Policing, Prevention, and Virtue Integration. For each of these topics there are multiple bullet points listed which help provide guidance and possible solutions to the issues. This is a very valuable link and I have bookmarked it as a future resource for reference.
Nothing surprises me anymore, I was the grievance chair for adjunct's union and we are allowed to take one class per semester. Admin got to fire an adjunct for having someone take a course for him at the same time he was teaching a class.
In our efforts to prevent cheating we may have failed to promote academic integrity. Read this article to learn more about balancing the efforts to prevent cheating and promote academic integrity,
One of the big issues in distance learning is how to prevent students from cheating on exams, i.e. how to make sure that it is the student and not someone else who is taking the exam. Based on this article, it looks like there may be a solution.
For as long as there have beenexams, there has been cheatingon exams. Online exams are nodifferent, although they do providesome challenges that set them apartfrom traditional face-to-face exams.These include a heightened opportunity to collaborate with others,greater possibility of using unapproved resources, and an increasedlikelihood that someone other thanthe student is taking the test
This article presents a rather extensive list of things to put in place in order to reduce cheating in online classes. It is unlikely that cheating will be eradicated in online or in f2f classes but every effort towards its reduction is an effort that enhances the value of a certification from the institute.