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Cheating in online learning
'); document.write('By Tony Bates, e-learning & distance learning resources Academic Impressions is one of my main sources of news on e-learning and educational developments. The editor, Daniel Fusch occasionally does interviews with experts on issues that come up in the news. Yesterday, he published an interview with me on teaching academic honesty in the classroom. I often am asked, after giving a keynote on e-learning, about the prevalence of cheating in online courses, as if it doesn?t happen in face-to-face programs. If you read the Academic Impressions article, you will see that it doesn?t refer specifically to online courses. Certainly, technology makes cutting and pasting much easier than laboriously copying out other people?s writing by hand, but then technology gives us Turn-It-In, which acts as a check. In over 15 years of teaching online, I can remember only one instance when I was forced to use institutional procedures to deal with online cheating, and in this case, it was as a result of one student making a formal complaint about another using plagiarized material. http://www.tonybates.ca/2010/08/21/cheating-in-online-learning/ Share on Facebook var button = document.getElementById(\'facebook_share_link_961\') || document.getElementById(\'facebook_share_icon_961\') || document.getElementById(\'facebook_share_both_961\') || document.getElementById(\'facebook_share_button_961\'); if (button) { button.onclick = function(e) { var url = this.href.replace(/share.php/, \'sharer.php\'); window.open(url,\'sharer\',\'toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436\'); return false; } if (button.id === \'facebook_share_button_961\') { button.onmouseover = function(){ this.style.color=\'#fff\'; this.style.borderColor = \'#295582\'; this.style.backgroundColor = \'#3b5998\'; } button.onmouseout = function(){ this.style.color = \'#3b5998\'; this.style.borderColor = \'#d8dfea\'; this.style.backgroundColor = \'#fff\'; } } } '); document.write(''); document.write('

More Students Embrace Online Learning at Community College
'); document.write(' by AAMP News Many educators have observed that more students are now embracing the online Community College Education. According to a study, Community colleges are the top online education with annual online enrollment rising 20 percent nationwide for the past few years. This is likely due to job seekers desire to gain new skills in order to compete with other applicants in a down economy. It is estimated that community colleges have completed $6 billion in construction renovation in order to accommodatethe needs of that have come from the increase in online classes. http://aamproject.org/more-students-embrace-online-community-college/1668 Share on Facebook var button = document.getElementById(\'facebook_share_link_958\') || document.getElementById(\'facebook_share_icon_958\') || document.getElementById(\'facebook_share_both_958\') || document.getElementById(\'facebook_share_button_958\'); if (button) { button.onclick = function(e) { var url = this.href.replace(/share.php/, \'sharer.php\'); window.open(url,\'sharer\',\'toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436\'); return false; } if (button.id === \'facebook_share_button_958\') { button.onmouseover = function(){ this.style.color=\'#fff\'; this.style.borderColor = \'#295582\'; this.style.backgroundColor = \'#3b5998\'; } button.onmouseout = function(){ this.style.color = \'#3b5998\'; this.style.borderColor = \'#d8dfea\'; this.style.backgroundColor = \'#fff\'; } } } '); document.write(''); document.write('

Ways that students can manage working full time and taking online learning classes
'); document.write('by Joan Collins, Helium Working full-time and taking on-line learning classes is a marriage made in heaven. Unlike brick and mortar schools, on-line colleges offer conditions that will allow any self-motivated student the opportunity to receive an education, enabling the student the chance to advance at work or to start another career while working. Managing this relationship is not any easier than a real marriage, but with thoughtful planning, the student will be able to thrive in both places. http://www.helium.com/items/1929707-how-to-take-online-classes-while-working-full-time Share on Facebook var button = document.getElementById(\'facebook_share_link_956\') || document.getElementById(\'facebook_share_icon_956\') || document.getElementById(\'facebook_share_both_956\') || document.getElementById(\'facebook_share_button_956\'); if (button) { button.onclick = function(e) { var url = this.href.replace(/share.php/, \'sharer.php\'); window.open(url,\'sharer\',\'toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436\'); return false; } if (button.id === \'facebook_share_button_956\') { button.onmouseover = function(){ this.style.color=\'#fff\'; this.style.borderColor = \'#295582\'; this.style.backgroundColor = \'#3b5998\'; } button.onmouseout = function(){ this.style.color = \'#3b5998\'; this.style.borderColor = \'#d8dfea\'; this.style.backgroundColor = \'#fff\'; } } } '); document.write(''); document.write('

At Utah technology college, women are finding better-paying jobs than men
'); document.write('By David Sarno, LA Times blog Pays to be a lady at Neumont University. Not only is there a fabulously good “ratio” — close to 93% of the Utah technology college’s nearly 400 graduating students have been male — but upon graduation, that tiny female sliver of the school population makes more money on average than the guys. In Neumont’s four-year history, the 27 girls nabbed higher average starting salaries than their male counterparts — $62,000 per annum for the gals, compared with $60,000 for the guys. Moreover, women are finding jobs faster too — with 95% of the female students getting jobs within six months of graduation, beating out the guys by four points. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2010/08/at-utah-technology-college-women-are-finding-betterpaying-jobs-than-men.html Share on Facebook var button = document.getElementById(\'facebook_share_link_954\') || document.getElementById(\'facebook_share_icon_954\') || document.getElementById(\'facebook_share_both_954\') || document.getElementById(\'facebook_share_button_954\'); if (button) { button.onclick = function(e) { var url = this.href.replace(/share.php/, \'sharer.php\'); window.open(url,\'sharer\',\'toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436\'); return false; } if (button.id === \'facebook_share_button_954\') { button.onmouseover = function(){ this.style.color=\'#fff\'; this.style.borderColor = \'#295582\'; this.style.backgroundColor = \'#3b5998\'; } button.onmouseout = function(){ this.style.color = \'#3b5998\'; this.style.borderColor = \'#d8dfea\'; this.style.backgroundColor = \'#fff\'; } } } '); document.write(''); document.write('

BULLYING: Off the playground and into cyberspace
'); document.write('By HILLARY FEDERICO, Middletown Press Bullies used to be those big kids who picked on the little ones; the ones who would tower over you on the playground or corner you with their fists clenched. But bullies are no longer restricted to methods of physical intimidation, letters or phone calls. Not anymore. Today, more and more bullies are hiding. They?re hiding behind computer screens and cell phones, text messages and social networking sites, using the available technology to battle against others mercilessly. http://www.middletownpress.com/articles/2010/08/18/news/doc4c6b50a67b909890922966.txt Share on Facebook var button = document.getElementById(\'facebook_share_link_952\') || document.getElementById(\'facebook_share_icon_952\') || document.getElementById(\'facebook_share_both_952\') || document.getElementById(\'facebook_share_button_952\'); if (button) { button.onclick = function(e) { var url = this.href.replace(/share.php/, \'sharer.php\'); window.open(url,\'sharer\',\'toolbar=0,status=0,width=626,height=436\'); return false; } if (button.id === \'facebook_share_button_952\') { button.onmouseover = function(){ this.style.color=\'#fff\'; this.style.borderColor = \'#295582\'; this.style.backgroundColor = \'#3b5998\'; } button.onmouseout = function(){ this.style.color = \'#3b5998\'; this.style.borderColor = \'#d8dfea\'; this.style.backgroundColor = \'#fff\'; } } } '); document.write(''); document.write(''); document.write('

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