Abstract

Those in distance education are faced with a formidable challenge to ensure the identity of test takers and integrity of exam results, especially since students are physically removed from the classroom and distributed across the globe. This news digest will provide distance educators not only with a better understanding and awareness of issues surrounding cheating but also suggest solutions that might be adopted to help mitigate cheating in their programs. While technologies, including "braindump" Web sites and cell phones, are associated with the more common cheating behaviors today, the problem of cheating will always beleaguer distance educators; it is their responsibility to stay current on latest developments in the field of academic dishonesty, employ fitting interventions to mitigate cheating, and do everything possible to preserve the integrity of distance education.

Citation

Howell, S.L., Sorensen, D. & Tippets, H.R. (2009). The New (and Old) News about Cheating for Distance Educators. Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 12(3),. Retrieved September 30, 2023 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/76583/.

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Keywords

• business
• Cheating
• Computer Uses in Education
• distance education
• Elementary Secondary Education
• ethics
• Incidence
• Intervention
• Mass Media
• Plagiarism
• Postsecondary Education
• Telecommunications
• Tests
• Web Sites