Practice
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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Spectrum of Threats to Academic Integrity
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 10/15/2020 | 3 comments
One of the priorities identified this year by WCET’s Steering Committee was to shed light on the unscrupulous practice of third party sites that entice students to cheat. WCET learned that many of our member institutions regularly issue “cease and desist” notices to organizations that violate intellectual property by copying faculty content, assessments, etc. and […]
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Licensing Certification and Dispersed Students, Oh My!
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 4/30/2020 | 4 comments
Institutions have juggled many issues to maintain educational continuity during the pandemic. WCET has addressed accessibility, Veterans benefits, crisis coordination, Open Educational Resources, the U.S. Department of Education’s ability to exercise enforcement discretion for Title IV eligibility , and more! However, we must now address the issue of institutional management of state licensing board requirements […]
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Rigor, Meet Reality
Published by: Lindsey Rae Downs | 4/5/2018 | 2 comments
How do you define academic rigor? I know when I was completing my undergraduate and graduate coursework, I could tell the difference between a rigorous course and one that would be a little less time consuming. I also understood, especially in graduate school, that the more rigorous a course was, the more I “got out […]
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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 […]