Catching lightning in a bottle: Surveying plagiarism futures
The digitization of higher education is evolving academic misconduct, posing both new challenges to and opportunities for academic integrity and its research. The digital evidence inherent to online-based academic misconduct produces new avenues of replicable, aggregate, and data-driven (RAD) resea...
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The digitization of higher education is evolving academic misconduct, posing both new challenges to and opportunities for academic integrity and its research. The digital evidence inherent to online-based academic misconduct produces new avenues of replicable, aggregate, and data-driven (RAD) research not previously available. In a digital mutation of the misuse of unoriginal material, students are increasingly leveraging online learning platforms like CourseHero.com to exchange completed coursework. This study leverages a novel dataset recorded by the upload of academic materials on CourseHero.com to measure how at-risk sample courses are to potential academic misconduct. This study’s survey of exchanged coursework reveals that students are sharing a significant amount of academic material online that poses a direct danger to their courses’ academic integrity. This study’s approach to observing what academic material students are sharing online demonstrates a novel means of leveraging digitized academic misconduct to develop valuable insights for planning the mitigation of academic dishonesty and maintaining course academic integrity.
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| spelling | doaj.art-3d9f205d54ff46d6a4769ef92128c5112024-02-03T08:25:14ZengOnline Learning ConsortiumOnline Learning2472-57492472-57302021-09-0125310.24059/olj.v25i3.2422Catching lightning in a bottle: Surveying plagiarism futuresZachary Dixon0Kelly George1Tyler Carr2Embry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical UniversityEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical Univerity The digitization of higher education is evolving academic misconduct, posing both new challenges to and opportunities for academic integrity and its research. The digital evidence inherent to online-based academic misconduct produces new avenues of replicable, aggregate, and data-driven (RAD) research not previously available. In a digital mutation of the misuse of unoriginal material, students are increasingly leveraging online learning platforms like CourseHero.com to exchange completed coursework. This study leverages a novel dataset recorded by the upload of academic materials on CourseHero.com to measure how at-risk sample courses are to potential academic misconduct. This study’s survey of exchanged coursework reveals that students are sharing a significant amount of academic material online that poses a direct danger to their courses’ academic integrity. This study’s approach to observing what academic material students are sharing online demonstrates a novel means of leveraging digitized academic misconduct to develop valuable insights for planning the mitigation of academic dishonesty and maintaining course academic integrity. https://olj.onlinelearningconsortium.org/index.php/olj/article/view/2422Academic misconductdigitizationdistance education |
| spellingShingle | Zachary Dixon Kelly George Tyler Carr Catching lightning in a bottle: Surveying plagiarism futures Online Learning Academic misconduct digitization distance education |
| title | Catching lightning in a bottle: Surveying plagiarism futures |
| title_full | Catching lightning in a bottle: Surveying plagiarism futures |
| title_fullStr | Catching lightning in a bottle: Surveying plagiarism futures |
| title_full_unstemmed | Catching lightning in a bottle: Surveying plagiarism futures |
| title_short | Catching lightning in a bottle: Surveying plagiarism futures |
| title_sort | catching lightning in a bottle surveying plagiarism futures |
| topic | Academic misconduct digitization distance education |
| url | https://olj.onlinelearningconsortium.org/index.php/olj/article/view/2422 |
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