This will be a round table tutorial in the Wu Centre. 9 am till 4 pm. (Continental breakfast, lunch and nutrition breaks provided)

Instructor - Bernadette Howlett howlbern@isu.edu. Bernadette is the Instructional Technologist in the Instructional Technology Resource Center at the Idaho State University. Bernadette has won a number of awards including the John L.V. Bobell Award, 2001 from Eastern Idaho Chapter of the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) for Outstanding Dedication and Devotion to the Field of Adult Learning. Bernadette has been involved with technology-based, distributed learning since 1994 and brings a wealth of experience to this Pre-conference session.

Overview - Online course delivery has introduced a new spectrum of opportunities not only for innovative pedagogical approaches, but also for cheating. Online testing poses a great challenge to today's university instructor. How can a teacher know if the person taking the exam is the person receiving credit? What can be done to prevent students from looking up answers in the textbook or online during an exam? Is it possible to prevent students from calling one another during an online test? How does a professor prevent students in one section of a course from printing a test and giving it to students in another section of the course? And, most importantly, what motivates students to cheat and how can that motivation be decreased?

While there is no guaranteed way to prevent cheating, there are techniques instructors and course designers can use to make cheating difficult and time consuming. The design of instruction, the nature of the evaluation itself, and the capabilities of the quiz delivery technology can be used to reduce cheating. This full-day workshop will include demonstrations of various types of online tests as well as activities and discussions surrounding the motivations for cheating and the role of course design in eliminating those motivations.