Transcript Web-Based Delivery Designing Online Curricula
Promoting Academic Integrity in the Online Classroom
Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium Diane Goldsmith, Executive Director
(860) 832-3893
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Thanks
Study Group on Academic Integrity and Student Verification in Online Learning Lori McNabb from the University of Texas Telecampus.
http://www.wcet.info/2.0/index.php?q=node/1212
Distrust
Distrust of the Online Environment
• Saturday Night Live • Academic Research: Online Learning as a Strategic Asset Volume II: The Paradox of Faculty Voices Babson Survey Research Group August 2009
Distrust
P. 29
Faculty Beliefs
How frequently do you believe students in the UT System engage in academic dishonesty?
McNabb & Olmstead, 2009
Faculty Beliefs
Opportunities Students Have to Engage in Academic Dishonesty in Online and On Campus Courses?
McNabb & Olmstead, 2009
Faculty Beliefs Likelihood Students will Engage in Academic Dishonesty in Online and On-Campus Courses
McNabb & Olmstead, 2009
Authentication
• Higher Education Opportunity Act
An institution that offers distance education…is required to have processes through which the institution establishes that the student who registers in a distance education…course or program is the same student who participates in and completes the program and receives the academic credit.
Authentication
Is She? Or Isn’t She?
Authentication Is She? Or Isn’t She?
Authentication
Is She? Or Isn’t She?
HEOA
• Secure logins and pass codes
- or -
• Proctored testing
- or -
• Authentication technologies
and –
• Protects Privacy Applies: online/correspondence courses
Secure Logins & Pass codes
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Smart passwords
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Policies for campus staff
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Annual reminders
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https login to CMS/LMS
Proctored Testing
• Notify students of expense
Authentication Technologies
Software Secure Securexam Remote Proctor
Kryterion Webassessor
Acxiom Identify-X Verify Authenticate correct name
Bio-Sig ID
Authentication Technologies
• Issues – Student privacy – Impact on types of assessments – Data management and security – Implementation for just online – Expense
Academic Dishonesty
• Cheating • Plagiarism • Self-plagiarism • Unpermitted collaboration • Inappropriate help • Misrepresentation
• Honesty • Trust • Fairness • Respect • Responsibility
Community of Integrity
Center for Academic Integrity, 1999
Creating a Community of Integrity
• Virtue (promotion) approach • Prevention approach
– Pedagogy – Training and Materials
• Policing approach
Hinman, 2002; Olt 2002
Virtue Approach
UT Permian Basin
UT Permian Basin
Dalhousie University
University of Central Florida
Ryerson University
Utah Valley University
Virtue Approach
• Institution Wide • Part of Student Orientations and First Year Seminars • Reflected by faculty, library, IT staff, student support staff.
• Part of the academic and student culture
Prevention Approach
Pedagogical Approaches
Pedagogical Approaches
• Syllabus: Sets Tone for the Class – Aligned with Campus Policies – Explains the Academic Culture of your discipline – Puts cheating/plagiarism in context of that Culture – Reinforces password/security policies – States clear penalties for cheating/plagiarism
Pedagogical Approaches
• Syllabus: Sets Tone for the Class – Sets an example: • models good scholarship • uses appropriate citations – Makes Course Objectives Clear – Explains Assessments and Alignment with Objectives – Quiz students on your syllabus
Pedagogical Approaches
• Assignments/Activities – Use authentic learning tasks that relate to students’ personal goals – Design assignment to learn genuine research skills in collaboration with your library – Design an assignment that focuses on the ethical dimensions of your discipline – Design collaborations that foster group cohesiveness – Discussion Forum for peer support and help
Pedagogical Approaches
• Good Pedagogy = “unintended consequences • Value of Collaborations – Research by Phil Ice at APUS – for profit online institution with 50,000 learners – Retention study: explained 21.2% of variance – 18%: “Online or web-based communication is an excellent medium for social interaction.” – 2.2%: “I was able to form a close sense of some [class] participants.” Phil Ice Presentation on Retention at WCET conference 10/2009
Pedagogical Approaches
• Discussion Forums – Guidelines and examples of work in the Forum – Establish a clear instructor presence in the Forum – Use the forum to expand assignments and assessments • What did she learn?
• Most important concepts?
• Would change if did over? – How assessed? Graded?
Pedagogical Approaches Share Student Work http://historyengine.richmond.edu/
Pedagogical Approaches
• Assessments – Varied (Bloom’s Taxonomy) – Authentic – Disaggregated and over time • Topic, Literature Search, Hypothesis, Methods, – Show how you got to the conclusion/answer – Expand learning with Forum, Portfolios – What you did? What you learned? What next?
– Scoring rubrics – clear to students
Pedagogical Approaches
• Quizzes and Tests (short,, T/F, multiple choice) – Do they need to be graded?
– Higher order thinking (can you Google the answer?) – (browser lock down software) – Randomize– questions/answers – Test bank, change regularly – Timed windows – Show questions 1 at a time – Proctored if high stakes (inform early, cost issues)
Pedagogical Approaches
• Assume “Open Book” Assignments: – Essays that require interpretation, analysis, reflection, connection. (Google the topic – what do you find?) – New types of essays or essay topics each semester – Authentic research in the field – Documentation of the “Process” not just the end project – blogs, wikis, journals
Pedagogical Approach Mathematics GROUP PROJECT
• Tackle a real life problem using the material covered in our class. • Present the projects professionally (as if hired to do the project) • Be creative. Gleason, Jim (2009).
Teaching Mathematics Online: A Virtual Classroom. Journal of Online Mathematics and Its Applications
http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/4/?pa=content&sa=viewDocument&nodeId=1057&bodyId=1241
RESULTS
• designed bus routes for a rural school district that reduced the travel time for all students from up to four hours per day to less than two hours per day • designed delivery routes for a rural milk company, and found the ideal location for a production plant. • design for a supermarket that maximized profit by placing key items in the best locations. Gleason, Jim (2009).
Teaching Mathematics Online: A Virtual Classroom. Journal of Online Mathematics and Its Applications
http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/4/?pa=content&sa=viewDocument&nodeId=1057&bodyId=1241
Pedagogical Approaches
• Get and maintain a reputation that in your courses cheating is difficult and painful • Adopt CATs (Angelo and Cross) for online • Students respect: – Fairness and clarity; – work that is designed to improve their learning; – challenging work; – within a reasonable course load.
Prevention Approach
Training and Materials
Capella University
Plagiarism.org (Turnitin)
Assignment Calculator
http://www.lib.umn.edu/help/calculator/
Assignment Calculator
UMUC
UMUC
Questionmark Secure
UTTC No Copy No Paste http://sourceforge.net/projects/lmsnocopypaste
Policing Approach
SafeAssign & TurnItIn
UTSWMC eTBLAST
Stanford MOSS
Check Your Class
Cheatability Rubric: http://www.uvsc.edu/disted/cheat/rubric.html
Check Your Class
Promoting Academic Integrity in the Online Classroom
Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium Diane Goldsmith, Executive Director
(860) 832-3893