How to cheat online

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How to cheat online

+ - What is Cheating?
- ~ UNCW Faculty Handbook - Academic Honor Code
- Plagiarism
- Cheating on tests
- Bribery
- + - Instances
  - + - Meatspace Tests
    - + - Cheatsheets
      - ~ The CocaCola bottle trick.
      - ~ Bottle of water and invisible ink.
      - Writing lightly in pencil on the desk
    - Illicit collaboration
    - + - Plagiarism
      - + - Google
        Essays
        
        Term papers
        
        Free term papers
    - Copying from a neighbor
    - Test Banks
    - Wikipedia
    - ~ ChaCha
  - + - Online Tests
    - Use the internet when not supposed to.
    - Illicit collaboration
    - Plagiarism
    - Banktests
    - Wikipedia
    - ~ ChaCha
+ - Why Do People Cheat?
- "All of us are determined to do as little work as possible. It's easy to see the professors are just like us and they just want to go home. They don't want to do anything either."
  ~ Anonymous UNCW student
  + - The Algorithm
  - What is the possibility I will get caught?
  - What do I stand to gain?
  - How much punishment will I receive if I'm caught
  + - Student Justifications
  - Easy
  - No time to study
  - Course is too hard or unfair
  - Everyone else is doing it
  - Course content is irrelevant
  - Pressure to achieve
  - Grade inflation
  - Time management
+ - What to Do About Cheating?
- Assessment instead of testing
  + - Educate the students
  - "If they respect you and expect a lot out of you,
    you want to do good, almost impress them,
    because they expect a lot out of you."
    ~ anonymous UNCW student
    ~ UNCW Faculty Handbook - Academic Honor Code
    + - Honor Code - Richard Veit
    - ~ Faculty Senate minutes Jan 15, 2008
    - ~ ENG 321 honor code
    Convince the students of the relevance of the subject matter
    Convince the students that you care about their over all well being and learning outcomes for the course
  + - Plagiarism
  - + - Prevention
    - Have samples of the students writing style from previous in class assignments
    - Require multiple drafts of the document
    - Have very specific topics
    - "Keep us under the illusion that you guys can get us."
      ~ anonymous UNCW student
  - + - Detection
    - Take a section of the questioned document,
      and put it in a google search.
    - + - Plaigairism sites
  + - Cheating
  - + - Raise the grading importance of other portions of the course
    - Attendance
    - Portfolio
    - Group work
    - Participation
  - Procter online courses at labs on campus or cooperating campuses
  - Change the course content - updates, new guest speakers, etc.
  - Watch students with web cam feeds?
  - Assume open book and open internet on tests
  - Decrease the amount of time for response - harder to look up answers and then respond
  - Large question banks creating random tests
  - Less memorization and more teaching
  Bribery
  - Umm...
  + - Report cheating and plagiarism
  to student affairs -
  Even if you resolve it, report it,
  so the event is on record.
  - ~ UNCW Office of the Dean of Students Case Management
+ - Resources
- + - Educause
  - ~ Designing Online Courses to Discourage Dishonesty
  - ~ Implementing Authentic Tasks in Web-Based Learning Environments
- + - Inside Higher ED
  - ~ Assessment From the Faculty Point of View
- + - Chronicle of Higher Education
- ArsTechnica
  - + - ~ Students appear less likely to cheat in online classes
    - ~ Point, Click, and Cheat: Frequency and Type of Academic Dishonesty in the Virtual Classroom
- Ted Talks
  - ~ Our Buggy Moral Code
- NY Times
  - ~ Colleges Chase as Cheats Shift ot Higher Tech
- Center for Academic Integrity
  - ~ http://www.academicintegrity.org/
- NPR
  - ~ Internet and College Cheating