Pre-Covid, those daring enough to cheat had to think of inventive ways to crib without getting caught. From simply peeking over at your classmate’s work to more elaborate tricks – like writing notes on your arms – the stakes were high and the reward low. After all, cheating doesn’t pay and most of the time, you’re caught red-handed. However, since Covid-19 forced us to stay home, many children and students have remained there to do their schooling. This creates many questions around honesty and student integrity. Being at home, with no physical educator, means that cheating has become so much easier for students not willing to study for their marks. Below, The Wall Street Journal’s Tawnell D. Hobbs takes a look at the rampant cheating gripping education systems. From auction-style websites – where people bid to do your assignments or homework for the highest price – to monthly subscription services to answer homework questions, there’s no limit on the length’s che
“Dr. George and I started thinking, what can we do to get our hands around this issue,” said Dixon, an assistant professor of humanities and communication. “If there are 100,000 documents matching our university’s content, that’s too much for any one thing. It became clear that we had to find a new way to kind of automate the process, game it, if you will, and that set us off on the journey.”
Dixon and George have worked with computer science students to develop a tool they call CourseVillain, a customized search engine that searches Course Hero for documents related to Embry-Riddle courses and partially autopopulates copyright takedown requests. As of late last week, the search engine had turned up 237,293 artifacts traceable to Embry-Riddle, according to George.