By Ashley Norris
09/04/2021 – Times Higher Ed
“Clearly, we need robust investments in student support, as well as human proctoring, to combat cheating. But it is unlikely that we will be able to spend our way out of this problem, especially when our adversaries – the essay mills and live cheating sites – continue to make massive profits and have no ethical governor reining in their conduct. Instead, real and lasting solutions are only possible if universities adopt some more creative – and less expensive – efforts as well.
These solutions include reconfiguring assessments and pedagogy to make cheating more difficult. But, most of all, we need to build awareness among students of good learning practice. We need lots and lots of educational campaigns and training about integrity and the dangers – both in terms of being caught and of losing out on the personal and professional benefits of higher learning – of taking easy shortcuts.”…Read the full Times Higher Ed article here.