{"id":238,"date":"2014-03-13T22:13:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T22:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=238"},"modified":"2014-03-13T22:13:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T22:13:58","slug":"the-prevention-and-detection-of-contract-cheating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/the-prevention-and-detection-of-contract-cheating\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prevention And Detection Of Contract Cheating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the second of two talks I delivered on contract cheating at a Birmingham City University workshop funded by the Higher Education Academy.<\/p>\n<p>The focus of this talk was on three areas for people considering what to do about contract cheating: prevention, detection and policy. Several of the slides are prompt led and this generated a lot of discussion.<\/p>\n<p>The slides, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/ThomasLancaster\">also available on SlideShare account for Thomas Lancaster<\/a>, are provided here.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/32286824?rel=0\" width=\"427\" height=\"356\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px 1px 0; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Some universities do still struggle to keep their academic integrity policies up-to-date, or these are only reviewed every few years. Such an approach is dangerous in a world where technology can rapidly change the cheating landscape.<\/p>\n<p>There is also the policy question about where contract cheating begins. Does this start when a student submits work that they have outsourced, or is the mere request to outsource work the starting point. Personally, I favour the latter point, but many policies require the student to have completed the process and submitted bespoke work created by another person, which can be challenging to prove.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the second of two talks I delivered on contract cheating at a Birmingham City University workshop funded by the Higher Education Academy. The focus of this talk was on three areas for people considering what to do about contract cheating: prevention, detection and policy. 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