- Title
- Assessment in online courses: some questions and a novel technique
- Creator
- Simon
- Relation
- Research and Development in Higher Education Vol. 28, p. 500-506
- Relation
- http://conference.herdsa.org.au/2005/abstracts/abstract210.cfm
- Publisher
- Higher Education Research & Development Society of Australasia Inc
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2005
- Description
- When students have little to lose and a great deal to gain by cheating, some of them will do so. Students have even less to lose if caught cheating in remote online courses than in face-to-face courses, and so are more likely to cheat in online courses. This paper describes an electronic ‘watermarking’ system that we have used to detect a particular form of cheating in remote online exams. Findings from the use of the system raise some disturbing questions about the practice of distance education and education in general.
- Subject
- assessment; authentication; distance learning
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/27454
- Identifier
- uon:1687
- Identifier
- ISSN:0155-6223
- Language
- eng
- Full Text
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