Researchers at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology have identified a way students are cheating to earn credit in
MOOCs... According to the researchers, some students are creating at least two
accounts in a MOOC — one or more with which to purposely fail
assignments in order to discover the correct answers, which they use to
ace the assignments in their primary account. The researchers analyzed
data from nearly two million course participants in 115 MOOCs offered by
MITx and Harvardx, and found that more than 1 percent of the
certificates earned appeared to result from this kind of cheating. And
among those students who have earned 20 or more certificates, 25 percent
had used this strategy to cheat...
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