3 thoughts on “Online Courses Cheating”

1. Cool link Nidal. I could see this spawning some really interesting ventures, like screen-capture software that reports to institutions so that online resources can’t be used to cheat during online exams. Video software to verify that the participant is actually the participant for online certifications or licensing. These could also be combined to assure that other devices aren’t being used during exams, certifications or licensing. It all feels a bit “big brother” though and there’s certainly some privacy concerns. Still, a really interesting and certainly disruptive potential there!

   June 18, 2014 at 11:23 pm

2. There are a number of companies in the “academic integrity” space, using either databases of essays that can be probed to check against plagiarism or that provide biometric mechanisms to authenticate students taking online exams.

   Some might argue that it’s a natural extension of conventional practices applied to the online space. Others argue that is demonstrates a lack of creativity in our assessment systems by putting so much value in high stakes exams and tests, instead of more authentic assessment systems.

   However, these systems are business ventures and seem to be meeting a current market need.

   June 19, 2014 at 10:52 pm

3. I found a link to Lockdown Monitor & Respondus, a 3rd party web service providing a video exam service for this area. The video was in interesting watch: http://www.respondus.com/products/monitor/movie-monitor.shtml

   July 24, 2014 at 3:04 pm