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Webcams Are Officially Not Fun Anymore

By Alison Go, Jackie Mantey

June 20, 2007 RSS Feed Print

Troy University in Alabama will give cameras to 11,000 of its online students to be used during exams, reports the Boston Globe. The move is an attempt to prevent cheating scandals plaguing so many colleges and to boost the online degrees' credibility. Some worry that the cameras are a little too Big Brother-ish. Paper Trail is more worried about a deluge of bad test-taking videos on YouTube. —Jackie Mantey and Alison Go

Tags:: SEC,; University of Alabama,; academics,; Alabama

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