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"Cheat Sheet" for the "Dummies" Book.....

This is a nice cheat sheet for prospective students who are interested in learning more about online education.

# TT1921 Creating a presentation on "Cheating", and I was appalled at the stats I discovered. https://oedb.org/ilibrarian/8-astonishing-stats-on-academic-Cheating/

"Think Twice Before Cheating in Online Courses"

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.

The blame for dishonesty and cheating is on the educational system's emphasis on testing well and achieving high grades.

This is an interesting blog on causes of cheating. Note the comment on the Khan Academy.

This site is an another example of ways in which students can cheat in academic courses, f2f or online.

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.

Here is an article related to preventing cheating in Online Courses

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.

This is a good article which highlights the ways instructors can design the course to reduce cheating.

Educations for sale--scary stuff!

Interesting assessment by Forbes magazine on Chegg

I enjoyed reading this and use several of these already

I have used Poll Everywhere, Padlet, Google Docs/Forms for checking students' group work in class, but I've always wanted a simple tool that takes a second for students to complete and another second for me to check their completion but a tool where students don't get to "cheat" by peeking at what other groups are writing because they can't see what other students are typing until they post their answers!

Article about Academic Honesty which includes information about Securexam Proctor, used at Troy University in Alabama

Video regarding one method to discourage cheating in online courses