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| Thursday, 21 July 2005: 1:30 PM-2:15 PM | |||
| Pacific I (San Francisco Marriott) | |||
| H-4: How to Cheat Online | |||
| Detailed Description: | This presentation examines a continuum of ways to cheat online ranging from blaming technology to Web site hacking. Attendees will be shown how less-ethical students cheat at each step. The presentation culminates with ideas for instructors to help them discourage cheating centering on the idea that if instructors know how students are cheating they can discourage it; furthermore,it helps instructors examine their own materials so that they’re not inadvertently encouraging dishonest course participation. | ||
| Presentation Format: | Showcase | ||
| Topic: | Enabling learning: Effective instructional practices and flexible design models | ||
| Target Audience: | Course Designers, E-learning Managers, Faculty and Other Instructors, K-12 Educational Staff | ||
| Appropriate Audience Level: | Beginning or new users of WebCT, Experienced WebCT users | ||
| Abstract Text: | This presentation examines a continuum of possibilities for students to cheat online, from technology as scapegoat to Website hacking. Attendees will be shown actual practices of how less than ethical students may cheat at each point in the continuum. A comparison will be drawn between cheating in both face to face and online environments. Several instructional and assessment methods will be examined to determine if they themselves inadvertently encourage cheating, or make it especially easy to cheat. The presentation culminates with the dissemination of ideas for instructional and assessment methods that both discourage cheating and promote student creativity, focusing on the idea that instructors who know how students cheat can deter and even defeat the practice. Through application of the information and methods presented, instructors will be empowered to look at their own teaching styles with the confidence that they are not inadvertently encouraging or enabling dishonest course participation. At the conclusion of the presentation attendees will be able to identify assessments that lend themselves to cheating and select alternate forms of assessment that make cheating less likely | ||
| Session Leader: | John Krutsch Utah Valley State College | ||
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