tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256317.post2715822292608139632..comments2023-09-07T22:24:51.654-05:00Comments on League of Melbotis: The Virtual University and the Future of EducationThe Leaguehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04836241071795980225noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256317.post-36101789407033355642009-09-14T10:47:47.881-05:002009-09-14T10:47:47.881-05:00I should mention, many schools and large corporati...I should mention, many schools and large corporations have a proctoring service built into their institution for the express purposes of distance education.The Leaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04836241071795980225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256317.post-32562609738316420622009-09-14T10:46:23.544-05:002009-09-14T10:46:23.544-05:00If students are willing to share passwords and cre...If students are willing to share passwords and credentials, then there's very little to keep students from cheating.<br /><br />I've worked primarily in graduate level education, and that's a very different ball game from undergraduate level work. Grad work is usually something people very much want to pursue and probably aren't able or willing to repeat.<br /><br />For undergraduates, I've heard of various methods, including forcing students to come to campus for exams, which isn't realistic as a scalable solution.<br /><br />For some of our courses at the grad level, we would only ask that they find a proctor of some sort to sign paperwork saying the student had fulfilled the requirements of the exam. It wasn't a terribly rigorous process.<br /><br />If a student is willing to fake it for the duration of the semester, and not just an exam, then there's very little a university can do, and that's a definite problem.<br /><br />What course management systems generally build in is: a shuffling of questions, often pulling from a pool of questions, so students sitting next to one another won't receive all of the same questions, and definitely not in the same order.<br /><br />Other responses have been to require papers and projects for courses rather than exams, which is a better learning model, anyway.The Leaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04836241071795980225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5256317.post-63659978161799366262009-09-14T09:11:31.004-05:002009-09-14T09:11:31.004-05:00I got a question. How does the grading procedure ...I got a question. How does the grading procedure work? Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like it would be really easy to just cheat with online claases by, for instance, just paying someone else (someone who's already taken the class, or someone else who's currently taking it) to do your online homework for you and/or take your tests. (I guess this can happen at regular universities, anyway. I know a guy who paid another guy to take a class for him at Trinity that he didn't think he could pass)J.S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03903186469796595837noreply@blogger.com