The loophole generation
- UNCW Author/Contributor (non-UNCW co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- John C Fischetti, Professor (Creator)
- Jennifer Summerville, Assoc. Dean, Distance/Weekend Coll. (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW )
- Web Site: http://library.uncw.edu/
Abstract: When we speak to colleagues across campus and across the country, almost everyone who teaches online
tells the same stories. An increasing number of students spend considerable energy seeking, finding, and
negotiating loopholes in online course assignments. While this behavior is not new or shocking, the
anonymous, self-driven nature of online classes may exacerbate the tendency (Kennedy et al. 2000). Rather
than the exception, this behavior is becoming the rule. In what follows, we address some of the further factors—particularly related to information technology—that
pose special challenges to online instructors as they face a new generation of students, and we outline some
of the more typical behavior patterns that such instructors are likely to encounter in their work. We then
provide some recommendations for how instructors can disrupt these behavior patterns while stressing the
vital link between ethically responsible practice in the university and the similar expectations students will
encounter in their professional careers.
The loophole generation
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Summerville, J., & Fischetti, J. (2007). The loophole generation. Innovate 4 (2). Retrieved from http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=343.
- Language: English
- Date: 2009
- Keywords
- Cheating (Education), Distance education, Generation Y--Education (Higher), Web-based instruction
- Subjects
- Web-based instruction
- Distance education
- Cheating (Education)
- Generation Y--Education (Higher)