Are Your Online Students Really the Ones Registered for the Course? Student Authentication Requirements for Distance Education Providers. A WCET Briefing Paper

Institution	WCET (WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies)
Titel	Are Your Online Students Really the Ones Registered for the Course? Student Authentication Requirements for Distance Education Providers. A WCET Briefing Paper
Quelle	(2008), (3 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Educational Technology; Distance Education; Integrity; Federal Legislation; Federal Regulation; Cheating; Student Evaluation; Plagiarism; Web Based Instruction; Virtual Universities; Online Courses; Information Security; Educational Policy; Educational Strategies; Guidelines; Compliance (Legal); Computer Security; Computer System Design + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Unterrichtsmedien; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht; Integrität; Bundesrecht; Bundeskompetenz; Prellen; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Plagiat; Web Based Training; Online course; Online-Kurs; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Lehrstrategie; Richtlinien; Computervirus; Computersicherheit
Abstract	Much attention has been focused on the accountability, student learning outcomes, transfer of credit, and illegal file sharing provisions of the two related bills that have moved through the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives to amend and extend the provisions of the 1965 Higher Education Act (S. 1642 and H.R. 4137). One of the provisions that appears in both versions should be of particular interest to institutions and programs that offer distance education. The proposed legislation requires "an institution that offers distance education to have processes through which the institution establishes that the student who registers in a distance education course or program is the same student who participates in and completes the program and receives the academic credit." WCET's (WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies') Steering Committee, representing some of the country's leading online higher education institutions and programs, have prepared this briefing paper to inform its members about this impending development, solicit additional approaches and strategies for academic integrity, assist the WCET community in continuing to provide high quality online education, as well as contribute to the development of appropriate federal guidelines (if the legislation is adopted). (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	WCET. 3035 Center Green Drive Suite 200, Boulder, CO 80301. Tel: 303-541-0231; Fax: 303-541-0291; e-mail: wcetinfo@wiche.edu; Web site: http://wcet.wiche.edu
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10