Online Seminar: Why Students Cheat and What We Can Do About It

Date(s): Thursday, November 15
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location: : Thinkerspace, G124

The prevailing statistics on cheating are disheartening. Some put the rate at 75%.

That means three out of every four students admit to some kind of academic dishonesty at some point during their higher education. We all know that this is not a new phenomenon. Cheating is as old as higher education itself. Older, really, if you look outside the classroom. Classicists tell us that cheating scandals occurred even during the ancient Olympic Games.
So is there really a way to solve a problem with such ancient roots?
There is when you stop viewing cheating as a student behavior issue and start looking at it as a teaching and learning issue.