Academic Integrity In the Online Environment

Why do students cheat?  Pressure  Fear of failure  Cultural Differences  Unclear guidelines  Ring of Gyges Dilema  What reasons have you encountered with students?

Do you believe students are more likely to cheat?

Survey says – 131 Respondents

What can we do?  Awareness  Assessment Design  Technology  Pedagogical Strategies

Awareness  Post Academic Integrity Statement  Post Copyright Policy  Gain student buy-In  Include a lesson on plagiarism  Test over stated policies

What do you do in your own course to raise awareness?

Assessment Design  Limit time and availability on test  Randomize Questions  Randomize Attempts  Require completion in single session  Limit results and questions displayed  Keep course content current  Follow-up with chat exchange to test knowledge

Do you use Question Sets?

Technology  Respondus Lockdown Browser  Limits students ability to navigate elsewhere  Limits ability to Print/Copy Test  SafeAssign and Direct Submit  Identifies Matching Text  Checks against 4 repositories

What has been your experience with RLDB and SafeAssign?

Pedagogical Strategies  Authentic Assessments  Apply to their own life  Demonstrate Skill-Set  Nursing Students and video submission  Include a variety of assessment types  Alternative Assessments  Collaborative with peer-review  Scaffold assignments

What sort of strategies do you employ?

Survey says – 138 Respondents

Resources Encourage Academic Honesty Handout Blackboard Inc. Best Practices Strategies to Promote Academic Integrity in Online Education WCET. dentauthentication/BestPractices.pdf