I recently attended the eLearning Consortium of Colorado’s
conference in Breckenridge. I went for one day and due to the fact that it
happened to be same day we got our wonderful spring storm, my attendance was
limited, but I did manage to catch Heather Tobin ‘s presentation on Academic
Honesty. Heather, an Instructional Designer at the University of Denver and an adjunct
instructor for CCCOnline, provided several strategies for reducing the possibility
of cheating.
1.
Examine your syllabus, where in your course
might students be most tempted or most capable of succeeding at cheating.
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Once identified find new ways of assessing these
activities that will reduce or eliminate the cheating.
2.
Build a culture of academic integrity in your
course.
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One attendee shared that he has the students
sign an oath pledging not to cheat. As a practice this gives a point of
discussion if cheating does occur and helps remind students that you do care.
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Heather mentioned that just discussing it as a
group brings cheating out of the shadows and gives students a chance to hear
how the others feel about it.
3.
Utilize Turnitin to assist students with
checking rough drafts.
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Regis University has an enterprise license of
Turnitin and it is available online and it WorldClass for all instructors.
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Encourage students to submit drafts for analysis
to see where they might be plagiarizing.
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Use Turnitin as teaching tool for students.
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This will give students experience with the tool
you may be using to evaluate them before they are graded with it.
I’m
pretty certain that some if not all of these are known and used by many
faculty, however a review of good ideas never hurts. Hope it is helpful.
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