1. Academic Integrity In the Online Environment

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

3. Do you believe students are more likely to cheat?

4. Survey says – 131 Respondents

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

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

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

9. 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

12. Do you use Question Sets?

13. 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

16. What has been your experience with RLDB and SafeAssign?

17. 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

18. What sort of strategies do you employ?

19. Survey says – 138 Respondents

20. Resources Encourage Academic Honesty Handout. 2008. Blackboard Inc. Best Practices Strategies to Promote Academic Integrity in Online Education. 2009. WCET. http://wcet.wiche.edu/wcet/docs/cigs/stu dentauthentication/BestPractices.pdf