Online Learning Update

August 26, 2012

Are online learning courses more susceptible to cheating problems?

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:01 am

by Maureen Downey, Atlanta Journal Constitution

The Chronicle of Higher Education has an interesting story about plagiarism related to Coursera, a new consortium of colleges offering free, non-credit courses. Among the 16-member participant universities are Georgia Tech, Stanford, Duke, Princeton, University of Michigan and Johns Hopkins. As the Chronicle story notes, plagiarism is a problem even in conventional classrooms, but poses additional challenges in mass-enrolled online courses that rely on peer review and grading of assignments, as does Coursera.

http://blogs.ajc.com/get-schooled-blog/2012/08/20/are-online-courses-more-susceptible-to-cheating-problems

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