Cheating online courses

Cheating online courses

Jun 13, 2012

GAMING THE SYSTEM: "This is the gamification of education, and students are winning." So goes the Chronicle of Higher Ed's look into cheating methods on online courses. The piece features a student who with the help of four friends and Google Docs devised a scheme to get an A without touching course materials. (Of course, the fact that he worked out probabilities and figured out the workings of the system suggests that he did learn something.)

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