High-Tech CheatingPresented by Rolando Valentin

Overview • Abstract: Where Did This Topic Stem From?

• High-tech Cheating: What it’s not and what it is

• Academic Dishonesty

• Is this Ethical?

• Types of High-Tech Cheating

• Ways to Prevent High-tech cheating

Abstract:Where Did This Topic Stem From?

• In working for the University at Albany as an Academic Advisor I have made friends with many faculty members. This past summer when having lunch with one of these faculty members she told me that while administering an open notebook test in a large lecture style chemistry class she noticed a young man looking at his watch quite a bit. She later noticed that it was in fact a smart watch and the young man was receiving text messages with the answers to the exam.

• The purpose of this project is to investigate the types of high-tech cheating in order to determine whether or not it is ethical to use technology to aid in academics. This project also not only identified types of high-tech cheating but explored ways in which to prevent this type of cheating from occurring in online and in classroom environments.

High-tech Cheating: What it’s not and what it is

• Within our society the word cheating can have different definitions.

• High-tech cheating is not talking about “infidelity” and the internet.

• I am referring to using technology to perform acts of academic dishonesty.

Academic Dishonesty“Academic dishonesty or cheating includes acts of plagiarism, forgery, fabrication or misrepresentation, such as the following:

• Claiming the work or thoughts of others as your own

• Copying the writing of others into your written work without appropriate attribution

• Writing papers for other students or allowing them to submit your work as their own

• Buying papers and turning them in as your own

• Having someone else write or create all or part of the content of your assignments

• Submitting the same paper for more than one study or class without explicit permission from the faculty members

• Making up or changing data for a research project

• Fabricating and/or altering documents and/or information in support of the degree program.

-SUNY ESC Code of Conduct (2015)

The Question I pose to you…

Is this ethical?

Common Types of High-tech Cheating

• Waiting for and Looking up Answers:

• False Error Messages when Accessing Assignments

• Collusion, Deception and the Creation of “Cheating Rings”

• Plagiarism

• Paying for Answers

• (Monet, 2013), (Farisi, 2013)

Ways to Prevent High-tech Cheating

• Software settings on online course sites that block students from accessing other content

• Use of proctors in large class setting so that technology is monitored

• Variety of software that detects plagiarism and although this may be useful to an instructor

• Institutions need to update their policies and educate students on what constitutes high-tech cheating

• (Monet, 2013), (Farisi, 2013), (Jones, 2009)

Questions

References• Academic Honesty Policy and Procedures. (2015). Retrieved from http://www.esc.edu/policies/?

search=cid%3D37970

• Farisi., M., I.(2013). Academic Dishonesty in Distance Higher Education: Challenges and Models for Moral Education in the Digital Era. Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 14 (4) 176-195. Retrieved from http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.library.esc.edu/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=a2b9b05b-17fd-4665-b637-773f522669ba%40sessionmgr4001&vid=1&hid=4211

• Jones., I., M. (2009). Cyber-Plagiarism: Different Method Same Song. Journal of Legal, Ethical and Regulatory, 12, (1). Retrieved from http://library.esc.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=44574761&site=eds-live

• Marcoux., E. (2014). Reading & Cheating & Technology. Teacher Librarian, 41 I (5), p69. Retrieved from http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.library.esc.edu/eds/detail/detail?sid=715e85b6-47c3-4e00-a1e5-93826ffae349%40sessionmgr112&vid=1&hid=126&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU%3d#db=eue&AN=96678470

• Moten Jr., J., Flitterer, A., Brazier, E., Leonard, J., Brown, A. (2013). Examining Online College Cyber Cheating Methods and Prevention Measures. Electronic Journal of e- Learning, 11 (2), 139-146. Retrieved from http://library.esc.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eue&AN=91546653&site=eds-live