{"id":662,"date":"2017-10-22T21:44:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T20:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/?p=662"},"modified":"2022-12-17T21:43:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T21:43:31","slug":"contract-cheating-the-threat-to-academic-integrity-and-recommendations-to-address-essay-mill-use-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/contract-cheating-the-threat-to-academic-integrity-and-recommendations-to-address-essay-mill-use-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Contract Cheating &#8211; The Threat To Academic Integrity And Recommendations To Address Essay Mill Use &#8211; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a short video introduction to <strong>why contract cheating is a problem<\/strong> (it only last 1 minute and 39 seconds).<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5NaEMY-EG-E?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The video uses some of the recommendations from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qaa.ac.uk\/publications\/information-and-guidance\/publication\/?PubID=3200&amp;lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_pulse_read%3BbHhxRPRMRg%2BwlhxDjUseSA%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) report on contract cheating<\/a>, released in October 2017. I was part of the team steering the report and have been speaking about it in media interviews. It&#8217;s great to see the national push asking universities to address this form of academic misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>If you find the video useful, feel free to go ahead and share it. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5NaEMY-EG-E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">direct link to the YouTube page is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What I don&#8217;t do in the video is define contract cheating or go into a lot of detail about it. I deliberately wanted to keep this one short and shareable.<\/p>\n<p>The video looks at why contract cheating is an issue, some recent numbers about the extent of contract cheating (the source in the video says that <strong>7% of students have contract cheated at least once<\/strong>) and to look at solutions, particularly regarding the movement to <strong>work with students and promote academic integrity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If you prefer to read, or want more information, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/time-universities-get-tough-contract-cheating-thomas-lancaster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a longer version of the same contract cheating story is on my Linked blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a short video introduction to why contract cheating is a problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[147,18,389,119,392,81,390,391,101,222],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contract-cheating","tag-blog","tag-contract-cheating-2","tag-dr-thomas-lancaster","tag-essay-mills","tag-get-tough","tag-linkedin","tag-qaa","tag-quality-assurance-agency","tag-video","tag-youtube"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Thomas Lancaster","author_link":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/author\/thomas-lancaster\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Here is a short video introduction to why contract cheating is a problem.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1321,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/1321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaslancaster.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}