Education 2.0 & 3.0

BY MRHOOKER

Australian students are being blackmailed by illegal cheating syndicates largely run by organised crime. Experts warn it is a risk to national security as blackmailers return, threatening to out students for past cheating.

In the desperate scramble to combat AI, there is a real danger of penalising students who have done nothing wrong, says Robert Topinka of Birkbeck, University of London

Think "international manhunt" and the image that likely springs to mind is that of a hardened criminal like a murderer, bank robber or billion-dollar fraudster -- not the middle-aged boss of a high school tuition center.

Academics will be trained to better detect cheating by students, following an explosion of referrals of commercial cheating websites to the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency

Research suggests the only way to effectively combat online cheating for now is holding exams in person.

Cheating is a big problem. By my reading of the literature, around one in ten Australian university students has at some stage submitted an assignment they didn’t do themselves. Add to that other t…

College students were asked to create headwear to help resist the urge to peek at others' papers.

During the pandemic, Proctorio sold invasive software that claims to stop cheating. A new study shows otherwise.

A new study of academic integrity policies and practices at 41 Australian universities found little evidence of changes to deal with cheating and academic misconduct arising from online assessment.

Despite authorities closing hundreds of university cheating websites, the purchasing of assignments continues apace.

Academics have warned that students could be falsely accused of using the AI bot to write essays and complete coursework.

AI is becoming more sophisticated, and some say capable of writing academic essays. But at what point does the intrusion of AI constitute cheating?

Whistleblower claims some students have graduated without ever writing assignments.

In the post-COVID era of online assessments, “homework help” sites have been accused of becoming industrialised cheating factories — and it's making them rich.