Online Learning Update

May 17, 2011

Online Courses Should Always Include Proctored Finals, Economist Warns

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:05 am

By David Glenn, Chronicle of Higher Ed

Online economics students do not absorb much material from homework and chapter tests during the semester—perhaps because they expect to be able to cheat their way through the final exam. That is the lesson from a study that Cheryl J. Wachenheim, an associate professor of agribusiness and applied economics at North Dakota State University, will present in July at the annual meeting of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/online-courses-should-always-include-proctored-finals-economist-warns/31287?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

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