The New (and Old) Ways Students Cheat: What You Can Do About It

Featured Higher Education Presenter:
Scott L. Howell, Ph.D.

When it comes to academic cheating, we’ve come a long way from the days of writing on one’s palm. Technology makes it possible for students – distance-ed students in particular – to cheat in myriad new ways.

That’s “progress” of a very depressing sort.

What can be done about it? How can we maintain academic integrity in systems where, by their own admission, 95% of students cheat?

There are ways to control cheating in the online classroom, and Scott Howell of Brigham Young University shares some of the best with you in this seminar.

In The New (And Old) Ways Students Cheat: What You Can Do About It, Dr. Howell, of BYU’s continuing-education department, looks at the ways students cheat and the tools institutions can use to thwart them. In a content-rich, 75-minute presentation, he surveys both high-tech and low-tech cheating methods, including:

• Phone and MP3 cheating
• Braindumps
• Organized group cheating
• The perils of Bluetooth technology
• Traditional cheating methods reborn
• Online “how to cheat” tutorials
• And more

Next, you’ll learn about the latest intervention methods (as well as “old faithful” techniques), including:

• The honor system
• Banning electronic devices
• Requiring identification
• Fingerprinting and scanning
• Commercial security systems
• Cheat-resistant laptops
• Randomized testing
• Statistical analysis
• And more

This is essential information … not just to promote academic honesty and personal integrity, but to help ensure that you meet Department of Education requirements and protect your accreditation.

Pay for one person … invite a crowd

This Magna seminar is an exceptional value. The fee to purchase it on CD is a modest $249 … but more important, it applies per site, not per person. That means you can invite others from your campus to watch with you, and it won’t cost you a penny more. Simply project it in a facility large enough to accommodate your group, and invite everyone! It’s a tremendous budget-stretcher.

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