Define academic integrity as it applies to digitally mediated communications.
Discuss online learning and the challenges of plagiarism and cheating in the digital environment.
Discuss the roles that faculty and students play in establishing and adhering to academic quality assurance policies.
Identify ways in which technologies may present challenges to academic integrity.
Evaluate strategies for discouraging cheating and encouraging academic integrity when using digitally mediated communication.
Humans have dealt with deceit and fraud since the beginning of time. As cheating, plagiarism and other types of academic fraud evolve with technology and take on new forms, educators also develop new methods to counteract it. Researchers have discussed at length the issue of dishonesty in academia but not in the context of online learning (Lanier, 2006). A combination of research-based and practice-proven strategies will help ensure academic integrity in online learning programs worldwide.