Print Email Facebook Twitter On the Prevalence of Multiple-Account Cheating in Massive Open Online Learning Title On the Prevalence of Multiple-Account Cheating in Massive Open Online Learning: A replicant study Author Bao, Yingying (External organisation) Chen, G. (TU Delft Web Information Systems) Hauff, C. (TU Delft Web Information Systems) Contributor Hu, X. (editor) Barnes, T. (editor) Hershkovitz, A. (editor) Paquette, L. (editor) Date 2017 Abstract Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a promising form of online education. However, the occurrence of academic dishonesty has been threatening MOOC certificates’ effectiveness as a serious tool for recruiters and employers. Recently, a large-scale study on the log traces from more than one hundred MOOCs created by Harvard and MIT has identified a specific cheating strategy viable in MOOCs: Copying Answers using Multiple Existences Online (CAMEO). In essence, learners create several accounts on a MOOC platform, request assessment solutions via some of the accounts, and then submit these “harvested” solutions in their main account to receive credit. In our work, we replicate the CAMEO implementation and apply it to ten edX MOOCs created by the Delft University of Technology. Our results show that in those MOOCs, 1.9% of certificates were likely earned through CAMEO cheating, a number comparable to the fraction of cheating observed in Harvard and MIT MOOCs. Subject MOOCsAcademic DishonestyMultiple-Account CheatingEducational Data Mining To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:134264c5-4813-4e17-940d-6c85bd8d50ac Publisher International Educational Data Mining Society (IEDMS) Source Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Educational Data Mining Event EDM 2017, 2017-06-25 → 2017-06-28, Wuhan, China Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2017 Yingying Bao, G. Chen, C. Hauff Files PDF 36833088.pdf 619.35 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:134264c5-4813-4e17-940d-6c85bd8d50ac/datastream/OBJ/view