Professors Use Technology to Fight Student Cheating

If we weren't selling education degrees at such outrageous prices, we wouldn't be so concerned about cheating, now would we?

With 6 billion people headed to 9 billion and technology growing ever faster, cheating is here to stay. The idea is to lower both the price and the prestige of the "degrees" we confer. We want people wanting to learn, not playing the sheepskin game.

One of many solutions to limit cheating is for the teachers to become nicer to their students. Consequently kids might feel guilty when they cheat. Also they can forbid cell phones during school. Finally teachers can monitor the class room to forbid kids from cheating. Cheating is extremely bad and we need to put a end to it.

There is too much pressure on kids to get good grades and get into a good college. Students decide to cheat to get a really good grade on sat’s or normal tests to get into a good collage. Kids should be encouraged just to try their best. This means they might not get all a’s. However this will limit the amount of cheating in today’s world.

So many minds think alike

I submitted a pper once and the professor said a string of words was plagiariazed- and I did not. Those were MY words. With millions of minds in the world, it is highly possible to have a similar train of thought to another. Because of this, I don't fully trust the software.

Cheating

If you don't have a problem cheating in school, remember, your physician went to school too...."

why to cheat?

the reason behind cheating would be far more complex than others think, so it is becoming more urgent to clarify the driving force in this tech arms race rather than equip with technology advance--a truly vicious cycle.

Academic integrity

Education as a commodity can be bought, and thus it can be stolen. Education as an investment in personal growth can only be earned, and those who strive to do so have no reason to cheat. How unfortunate it is then that the recently passed Higher Education Re-Authorization Act (H.R. 4137) casts dispersions on learners enrolled in distance education by requiring identity verification, as if to suggest that this population is less interested in intellectual growth than are those enrolled in formal classrooms, a substantial percentage of whom make no apologies for viewing academic integrity with little more than polite interest. The vast majority of on-line learners are working adults and military personnel who share a common interest in taking advantage of learning opportunities previously unavailable to them, and yet the Congressional message set forth in H.R. 4137 appears to be, “We don’t trust you; however, we will continue to trust your traditional-age counterparts in traditional centers of learning, despite overwhelming evidence that our trust is not justified.”

cheating

Perhaps this info will be of use. Joel

As far as I'm concerned, some of the methods to reducing cheating are reasonable. However,the most important thing is that we should carry them out.

I hope there will be a more harmonious society and every one can try his or her best to contribute to the world! If you are competent enough, I think you needn't to cheat.

Just show our best!

Cheating Rampant

As a 50-something who is finishing a degree now, I've been exposed to some of the present-day efforts used to cheat and to catch cheaters.

One professor explained and demonstrated to us the reaction of an electronic device hard-wired into a large testing room. The device alerted with an buzzing alarm if any equipment such as a cell phone was activated.

Simply amazing what you learn in school these days.

Ironic

Judging from all the spelling and grammer mistakes of some of the comments posted here I would conclude that most of the writers must have cheated their way through school. ( oh I mean cheated there way thru skool).