6 March 2024: The Shape of Cheating to Come

Presenters: Shaun Lehmann and Kane Murdoch, Macquarie University, Australia

Title: The Shape of Cheating to Come

This talk provided a glimpse of how broad and deeply contract cheating has penetrated higher education, and what we can do to turn the tide. We also demonstrated how learning analytics may fail unless we begin to pay attention to “non-learning analytics”, and what this means for future strategic decision making. The team at Macquarie University have developed a tool set called "Wiroo" that uses large data sets to detect potential academic integrity breaches at scale.

Further resources:

• Slide Set: TA_webinar_6_mar_2024_slides.pdf (PDF) 
• Chat Log (edited for typos) including shared links: TA_webinar_6_mar_2024_chat_log.txt
• Questions about Wiroo tool set send email to enquiries[at]wiroo.com.au

Session Recording

• View: Session recording video on Blackboard Collaborate (slide stream, video, audio and chat).
• View: Session recording video on Youtube (slide stream and audio).

Sources cited in slides (fixed links)

• Curtis, G.J., Clare, J. (2024). Prevalence, Incidence, and Rates of Contract Cheating. In: Eaton, S.E. (eds) Second Handbook of Academic Integrity. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54144-5_110
• Eaton, S.E., Carmichael, J.J. (2023). Fake Degrees and Credential Fraud, Contract Cheating, and Paper Mills: Overview and Historical Perspectives. In: Eaton, S.E., Carmichael, J.J., Pethrick, H. (eds) Fake Degrees and Fraudulent Credentials in Higher Education . Ethics and Integrity in Educational Contexts, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21796-8_1
• Eaton, S. E. (2021-06-01). Academic Integrity in Canadian Higher Education: The Impact of COVID-19 and a Call to Action (Conference Presentation). Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education Annual Conference. http://hdl.handle.net/1880/113463
• Harper, R., Bretag, T., Ellis, C., Newton, P., Rozenberg, P., Saddiqui, S. & van Haeringen, K. (2019) Contract cheating: a survey of Australian university staff, Studies in Higher Education, 44:11, 1857-1873, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2018.1462789
• Murdoch, K., House, D. (2023). Courageous Conversations: Approaching Amnesty Through Honesty as Reparations to a Learning Community. In: Eaton, S.E. (eds) Handbook of Academic Integrity. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-079-7_181-1