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The State of Academic Integrity in the New Millenium - Part I

January 30, 2012

Integrity in Crisis

Academic integrity in our education system is in a state of crisis. The year 2011 placed issues of cheating in the spotlight; the media is rife with news exposing cheating on exams, whether exams in a particular course, for professional certification, or entrance into college. It is ...

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Panel: Harnessing Technology to Protect Institutional Integrity

January 27, 2012

Doug Winneg, CEO and Founder of Software Secure (shown here far right) featured on panel at the USDLA Presidents' Forum at the United States Chamber of Commerce today. Great discussion, and looking forward to providing our post-conference perspective.

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What's in a word?

December 15, 2011

Merriam-Webster released its Word of the Year today for 2011 - Pragmatic. A word meaning "practical as opposed to idealistic". I can't help but think about how this applies to academic integrity in education today. "Pragmatic is not associated with any one event but instead describes "an admirable quality ...

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The Time is Now

October 18, 2011

Our prospects and customers have continued to tell us that exam security and particularly online exam security is rising in importance to their institutions. I’ve heard the words “exam integrity” along with “student convenience”, more in the last six months, than I have in all of Software Secure’s existence.

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The Backspin on Cheating Online

August 31, 2011

Serena Williams was interviewed on national television after her 2011 first round US Open Tennis tournament match. She indicated that she was a little concerned about her focus because she was starting classes during the tournament. When asked which classes, she said they were online classes, so she was ...

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Faculty members are being put in a position to cheat our students!

August 01, 2011

The July 21, 2011 Chronicle of Higher Education article, NYU Prof Vows Never to Probe Cheating Again – and Faces a Backlash, describes how NYU Stern School of Business Professor Panagiotis Ipeirotis publicly announced his decision to no longer pursue students known to be cheating in his class because ...

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Students Will Cheat -- So, Deal With It!

May 11, 2011

The Chronicle of Higher Education today reported that following her research on the performance of online and in-class students, associate professor of agribusiness and applied economics at North Dakota State University, Cheryl J. Wachenheim's recommends that online students be required to take proctored final exams to prevent what appears to ...

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Testing Securely and Conveniently - on Campus

March 08, 2011

I returned last week from the annual Innovations 2011 Conference in sunny San Diego, a well-organized event by the League for Innovation in the Community College. Over the course of three days, I spoke with many faculty, staff and administrators interested in exam integrity. I thought I’d share in ...

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Online Enrollment Collision Course – Target: Online Test Integrity

February 22, 2011

When will the collision between the growth of online enrollment and the integrity of the online testing environment take place?

Recently, a number of news stories talked about the growth of online enrollment in the United States outstripping that of traditional education. “By 2015, 25 million post-secondary students in the ...

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Innovators Serve the Student

February 14, 2011

Clayton Christensen's 2008 publication, Disrupting Class, and his recent publication, Disrupting College has and will continue to spur valuable debate about the reason and need for change in Higher Education. Much of the debate focuses on the Technology behind the Innovation, and how online learning can serve an untapped ...

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