Mark Edmundson: “professors need to stop looking exclusively for technological solutions to a problem that often stems, in consequential ways, from the way we do our jobs. Perhaps the current boom in electronic cheating can give professors — especially in the humanities, as the sciences are often bound to traditional test-giving and test-taking — a chance to pause and think and ultimately to teach in a better way.” Among the things that I need to think about if I'm ever going to get into PDP, must less become an accredited teacher, are the dilemmas involved in preventing and catching cheaters. Edmunson is talking mostly about university-level teaching, but a lot of what he has to say applies to high-school teachers as well.
Mark Edmundson on Academic Cheating
