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Worldwide
Department
Humanities & Communication
Document Type
Article
Publication/Presentation Date
9-2021
Abstract/Description
The digitization of higher education is evolving academic misconduct, posing both new challenges to and opportunities for academic integrity and its research. The digital evidence inherent to online-based academic misconduct produces new avenues of replicable, aggregate, and data-driven (RAD) research not previously available. In a digital mutation of the misuse of unoriginal material, students are increasingly leveraging online learning platforms like CourseHero.com to exchange completed coursework. This study leverages a novel dataset recorded by the upload of academic materials on CourseHero.com to measure how at-risk sample courses are to potential academic misconduct. This study’s survey of exchanged coursework reveals that students are sharing a significant amount of academic material online that poses a direct danger to their courses’ academic integrity. This study’s approach to observing what academic material students are sharing online demonstrates a novel means of leveraging digitized academic misconduct to develop valuable insights for planning the mitigation of academic dishonesty and maintaining course academic integrity.
Publication Title
Online Learning
DOI
https://doi.org/10.24059/olj.v25i3.2422
Scholarly Commons Citation
Dixon, Z., Whealan George, K., Carr, T., (2021). Catching lightening in a bottle: Surveying plagiarism futures. Online Learning, 25 (3), 249-266. doi:10.24059/olj.v25i3.2422