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Exemplars in the Fight against Syndicate Cheating
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 10/30/2020 | 0 comments
Over the past two weeks, Frontiers has featured its series on academic integrity and cheating syndicates. The first post considered the spectrum of threats facing higher education and our students and the second looked at the practices cheating sites use to entice (and trap?) students. To finish up the series, I’m happy to welcome Shannon […]
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How Third-Party Cheating Sites Entice and Impact Students
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 10/21/2020 | 1 comments
Today is the 5th Annual International Day of Action Against Contract Cheating. We join with the International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI) to participate and encourage other organizations, college’s and universities to sign up and participate in ICAI’s website. As we discussed last week, one of the priorities identified this year by WCET’s Steering Committee […]
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The Year in Review – What WCET Frontiers Posts Did You Read in 2018?
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 12/20/2018 | 1 comments
In 2018, the idea for a “Most Popular Movie” Oscar (thankfully) came and went, we debated whether we heard “laurel” or “yanni,” and J.R. Smith looks lonely on the Cavaliers’ bench after forgetting the clock in the NBA Finals. While we did not cover any of those events in WCET’s Frontiers blog, our stories about […]
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UNLV Pays a Cost for Not Notifying Students about Charges for Proctoring Services
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 10/17/2018 | 3 comments
Cheryl Dowd, Director of the State Authorization Network, and I have been presenting this summer about the status of the federal state authorization regulation. In those presentations we remind people about other federal regulations that remain in place. The one that has most surprised those in our audiences is the requirement that students be notified […]
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Test Proctoring: An Old Solution to a (Re)Emerging Problem
Published by: WCET Frontiers | 2/10/2012 | 9 comments
Today we welcome Peg Wherry, Director of Online Learning at Montana State University, as a guest blogger. Peg currently leads the WCET Academic Integrity and Student Authentication Subcommittee on Proctoring Practices and Policies and takes this opportunity to share with you their current work. A headline in the New York Times “Education Life” supplement on […]