The real devil behind rise in academic cheating during pandemic isn’t online learning: expert

https://nationalpost.com/news/the-real-devil-behind-rise-in-academic-cheating-during-pandemic-isnt-online-learning-expert

“There was about 20 years of research before the pandemic that showed that there was less academic misconduct in online courses compared to face-to-face learning.”

tudents were “forced into online learning when they didn’t want to be,”

tudents become easy prey for a US$15 billion global industry specializing in “contract cheating,”

Countries like New Zealand, Ireland, Australia are already ahead of the game, with legislation making it illegal for contract cheating businesses to operate.

U.K. is catching up, having tabled similar legislation.

But Canada has been slow to address the problem

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