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To: livius

Hi Livius,

Here’s a question for you, and if they haven’t solved it yet I fully expect that they will: how do they assure that the work you present and test answers you give are your own?

FReegards.


11 posted on 12/08/2012 8:06:30 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

Online identity is an issue for those courses. They are talking about picture IDs or fingerprinting, and these are not distant possibilities in our day and age of computers. Sometimes they require a monitored exam and ID at a location close to you.
I have online quizzes in all my classes, whether face to face or online. I figure the quizzes are open book/notes and are a means to examine the material again, not a test of memorization.
I hope that in the essay exams and in class (or in online discussion boards) I can hear the student’s voice developing. It is not hard to catch plagiarism nowadays.
But there is always a way to get around whatever rules and mechanisms are set up, even in online teaching. So this is not an issue to scoff at.


15 posted on 12/08/2012 8:29:25 AM PST by Republicanprofessor
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