The Cheatability Factor
The Cheatability Factor at TTIX08 was one of my favorite sessions of the entire conference.
The first part of this Session was a video that covered what cheating is and why students cheat. The first part also covered ways to cheat and how to cheat. These were covered in the video through comedic shorts similar to those on Conan Obrian. The back channel was the most used I think of any of the Sessions of the conference, but I had to leave as soon as the discussion started.
Part two was highly iteresting. The discussion turned to why students cheat. Most students cheat because of unnecessary load created by the professor. Professors are not the only producers of load. Students also create plenty of load for themselves by slacking, and not keeping deadlines. I know that I’m guilty of this. I doubt that any of the attendees had any of the major cheating risks in their courses. From my experience teachers who were there were either technologists themselves, or they actually cared about their online courses. The classes that would have most of the trouble with cheatability would probably be classes with teachers who think that they do not need to be involved in their online courses. The details are starting to fade from my memory so I’ll stop here…