Work in progress - authenticating authorship of student work: beyond plagiarism detection

There are many types of academic dishonesty; deception, plagiarism, and even theft and fraud are among the most common. Many techniques have been developed to deal with dishonesty in classroom situations, but as instructional delivery increasingly migrates to online modalities, unique problems arise for the instructor in insuring that the work performed by students represents that student´s efforts. When offering instruction in an anytime/any-place environment the challenges of insuring authentication of student work appears to be almost insurmountable because it is difficult to gather students into a central location or prevent off-line communication or assistance from others. This presentation addresses the challenges inherent in detecting academic dishonesty by examining a systems-approach to authentication of authorship of student work