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Cheating: Digital Learning Activities and Challenges

Cheating: Digital Learning Activities and Challenges

Cassandra Sligh Conway, Stanley Melton Harris, Yvonne Sims, Susan Smith, Bridget Hollis Staten, Michelle Maultsby, Gloria Hayes, Philliph Masila Mutisya, James Edward Osler II
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 19
ISBN13: 9781522516101|ISBN10: 1522516107|EISBN13: 9781522516118
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1610-1.ch005
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Conway, Cassandra Sligh, et al. "Cheating: Digital Learning Activities and Challenges." Handbook of Research on Academic Misconduct in Higher Education, edited by Donna M. Velliaris, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 112-130. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1610-1.ch005

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Conway, C. S., Harris, S. M., Sims, Y., Smith, S., Staten, B. H., Maultsby, M., Hayes, G., Mutisya, P. M., & Osler II, J. E. (2017). Cheating: Digital Learning Activities and Challenges. In D. Velliaris (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Academic Misconduct in Higher Education (pp. 112-130). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1610-1.ch005

Chicago

Conway, Cassandra Sligh, et al. "Cheating: Digital Learning Activities and Challenges." In Handbook of Research on Academic Misconduct in Higher Education, edited by Donna M. Velliaris, 112-130. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1610-1.ch005

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Abstract

Gone are the days when the traditional classroom is the only way to teach concepts to students. Now, the digital age allows professors a new territory to embark on. Currently, professors can add program features inside Blackboard or other courses which allow students to take quizzes, game simulations, and real life virtual simulations of cases (e.g., nurses giving care to consumers, students giving instructions on the correct theories to apply to situations, students participating in quizzes that require them to produce lighting via digital cameras in a field type environment etc.). With these new ways to teach in the digital age, there may be more challenges to introduce safeguards for cheating when the student is not face-to-face with the instructor monitoring their progress on examinations etc. Consequently, cheating in Higher Education (HE) classrooms is rampant at some universities. This chapter provides a discussion on cheating. In addition, authors discuss their digital learning activities and their experiences in which students have cheated and state safeguards to guard against cheating. In noting their perceptions of digital cheating, further discussions will compare and contrast the experiences of the faculty. This work provides recommendations and suggests solutions to combat cheating.

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