by Hana Muslic, Daily Nebraskan
How much would you pay to get a ‘B’ in a course if you knew you didn’t have to do any of the work? Students at universities across the nation have been emptying their pockets to see these results in their online classes. According to The Atlantic, college students are willing to lay down more than $1,000 for services like No Need To Pay — a company where “digital cheaters” are available for hire and sometimes even assume the identity of the student to help them pass the class. The students are guaranteed at least a ‘B’. At University of Nebraska-Lincoln, however, cheating in online classes seems to be minimal at best. “It’s actually fairly rare,” said Matthew Douglass, a professor at UNL who has taught online courses for six years. “I’ve never caught a student cheating in an online course.”
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