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In the long-running annual series Oh, The Humanities! National Post reporters survey academic scholarship at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, which has gone entirely virtual this year, hosted at the University of Alberta from May 27 to June 4. Over the coming days, Canadian academics will share their insights on such diverse topics as the origins of English names for sushi rolls and what’s behind the rise in student cheating during the pandemic.
If you never cheated during an exam or an assignment at university, then you at least know someone who did.
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Laying It Out: Nothing like cheating our way to a poor education
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Will you visit a business if they open in spite of health restrictions that say they can’t?
Yes
– Medicine Hat’s two MLAs were among 15 UCP colleagues to come out against health measures this week, just as doctors and scientists were once again pleading for diligence, and just as the more contagious, more deadly variant strains of COVID became dominant in Alberta.
– A new local restaurant and bar owner is promising to violate public health rules, is vehemently against mandatory vaccinations that don’t actually exist and is apparently a follower of QAnon (which, as was revealed this week, is just some dope named Ron).
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Moments before the online exam was set to begin, the testing software asked Chelsea Okankwu to take a photo of herself to verify her identity. Not enough light, said the message on her screen. She stood in front of a window with no luck. She brought over a lamp, and when one lamp wouldn’t suffice, she brought in a second.
Leslie Reid, vice-provost teaching and learning, Brock Kahanyshyn, chief information officer and Sarah Eaton, associate professor at the Werklund School of Education and educational leader in residence specializing in academic integrity, presented their research on online proctoring to the Students’ Legislative Council on Dec. 1.
Reid officially confirmed that there will not be any online proctoring during exams for the upcoming semester. This conclusion was arrived at after extensive consultations with the Students’ Legislative Council (SLC) as well as staff and students. Research done by Eaton and several graduate students revealed that e-proctoring became “the number one mental health issue among students during COVID-19.”