New Device to Prevent Online Students from Cheating on Exams
Filed in archive Products by Jamie Littlefield on May 22, 2007

"A company called Software Secure announced a new product today that combines several security features to help ensure that students in online courses don't cheat on tests. It's a device that plugs into the test taker's computer and requires the student to provide fingerprint verification before the test can begin. During the exam, the device also uses 360-degree video and audio recording to make sure nobody is helping the student. A professor can monitor the exam process from afar to make sure the test taker isn't taking too many bathroom breaks as well."Since the athlete / BYU online scandal earlier this year, the need to ensure student honesty has become all too obvious. But, maybe we're looking at this the wrong way. Perhaps the new medium of online learning deserves a new medium of proving content mastery. As one blog commenter put it: "How about finding an alternative to traditional
tests? There are real ways to measure someone's skills without using traditional testing that merely gauges a person's ability to memorize."Read the Wired Campus post: Your Cheatin' Heart
Permalink: New Device to Prevent Online Students from Cheating on Exams
Tags:
test taking online exams programs cheating+exams device+prevent sponsored+post
Trackback: http://www.creative-weblogging.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.pl/71453






