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Students are creating 'multiple personalities' to cheat on MOOCs. How do they do that? What are its implications?
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Arizona State's and edX's Global Freshman Academy initiative will receive an integrity boost with remote, identity-verified exam proctoring.
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Live Events, Twitter Feeds, Chat Rooms, and other resources for the Understanding Cheating in Online Courses MOOC (Massively Open Online Course)
Maryalice Leister's curator insight,
June 13, 2014 7:35 AM
Cheating in online coursework remains a hot topic. Take another look at the issue here.
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A short article appearing in the Independent newspaper on April 6th highlights the tensions brewing because of the use of marking software.
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Source: www.nytimes.com
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There is a dearth of research into the quality of assessments based on Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) items in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). This dataset was generated to determine whether MCQ item writing flaws existed in a selection of MOOC assessments, and to evaluate their prevalence if so. Hence, researchers reviewed MCQs from a sample of MOOCs, using an evaluation protocol derived from the medical health education literature, which has an extensive evidence-base with regard to writing quality MCQ items. This dataset was collated from MCQ items in 18 MOOCs in the areas of medical health education, life sciences and computer science. Two researchers critically reviewed 204 questions using an evidence-based evaluation protocol. In the data presented, 50% of the MCQs (112) have one or more item writing flaw, while 28% of MCQs (57) contain two or more flaws. Thus, a majority of the MCQs in the dataset violate item-writing guidelines, which mirrors findings of previous research that examined rates of flaws in MCQs in traditional formal educational contexts.
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Let us consider the following scenario. You have enrolled in a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) offered by a world renowned university. After four weeks of solid work you have completed your first assignment…
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EdX has tapped a private partner to provide remote proctoring services for its Global Freshman Academy.
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The Babel generator, which Mr. Perelman built with a team of students from MIT and Harvard University, can generate essays from scratch using as many as three keywords.
For this essay, Mr. Perelman has entered only one keyword: "privacy." With the click of a button, the program produced a string of bloated sentences that, though grammatically correct and structurally sound, have no coherent meaning. Not to humans, anyway. But Mr. Perelman is not trying to impress humans. He is trying to fool machines.
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To established members of the higher education community, the idea of using digital badges to mark academic accomplishments might seem juvenile, like getting a gold star on a kindergarten alphabet test instead of a real grade. However, many of the academics who are tied to technology see badges as harbingers of an educational revolution, and they might be right.
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Students taking free online courses offered by the startup company Coursera have reported dozens of incidents of plagiarism, even though the courses bear no academic credit. This week a professor leading one of the so-called Massive Open Online Courses posted a plea to his 39,000 students to stop plagiarizing, and Coursera's leaders say they will review the issue and consider adding plagiarism-detection software in the future.
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