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An investigation is underway into alleged online cheating by prospective and current MBA students. Thousands are accused of looking at current questions on their entrance exams. The publisher of the test has shut down the domain and is looking into who used it to cheat. Those scores could be thrown out. A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, ordered Scoretop.com to pay the Graduate Management Admission Council 2.35 million dollars and to turn over a computer hard drive containing payment information and user IDs. The council has sued Scoretop’s operator for copyright infringement. It alleges the site offered current questions from the Graduate Management Admission Test as well as other private material.
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Last month the media provided extensive coverage of a report that 34 first-year MBA students at Duke University were being expelled or otherwise punished for collaborating on a take-home exam. Some have questioned whether the faculty involved in administering this exam took adequate precautions to discourage such collaboration while the attitude of others has been what would you expect from students in a high-profile, competitive MBA program. A few people have even suggested that what these students did is no big deal.
Whatever your view, research suggests that business students are more willing to engage in academic dishonesty than other
The cheating episode at Duke University may cause academics to conclude the post-Enron emphasis on teaching ethics in graduate business schools is a failure.
Thirty-four first-year masters of business administration students at Dukes Fuqua School of Business were disciplined in the programs largest cheating scandal. Nine students face expulsion for collaborating on a take-home test, violating the professors rules.
Business students are more likely to cut corners than those in any other academic discipline, several studies show. A Rutgers University survey last year found that cheating at business schools is common, even after ethics courses were added following scandals that
Survey finds MBA students most likely to cheat
When it comes to cheating in graduate school, a new study finds that MBA students are the champs.
A survey of 5,331 students at 32 graduate schools in the United States and Canada found an alarming amount of cheating across disciplines, but more among the nations future business leaders. Fifty-six percent of graduate business students admitted they had cheated at least once in the last year, compared with 47 percent of non-business students.
The students, who were surveyed between 2002 and 2004, told researchers from Pennsylvania State,
he recent cheating scandal involving students in Duke Universitys MBA program should serve as a clarion call for colleges and universities to wake up, smell the coffee and start emulating the ethics policies of the private sector, according to at least one expert who closely follows ethics-related issues.
Yet, another ethics expert says the universitys response should serve as an example to colleges and corporations alike -- in that the institution publicized the infractions and its response to them, thereby reminding everyone that it takes violations of its honor code seriously.
Both agree, however, that the episode illustrates the tendency
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Southeastern Illinois College is going online in an attempt to reach more students.
Programs such as online courses, distance learning programs, student e-mail accounts and a planned online degree are all part of the college's plan to move beyond the traditional classroom.
Southeastern's first online course was Economics 121, which was offered in the fall of 1999. The course's instructor was located in Des Plaines, 350 miles north of the college's Harrisburg campus.
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Half of a group of prospective college students who said they would be interested in taking an online course in the next 12 months also said they would like to enroll in a completely online degree program, according to a recent survey conducted by the American InterContinental University Online.
The survey also showed that 32 percent of the respondents favored a degree program that was mostly online but included some campus-based courses. Ten percent said they wanted a program that was primarily on campus, the survey showed. Eight percent wanted half online; half on campus.
Citing research by the Sloan Corsortium,
To meet the needs of a growing population of students who may work full time, have family responsibilities at home and need education flexibility, Davidson County Community College is offering a new online degree in business administration.
"One of the college's goals is to create more online classes," said Matt Huntanar, department chair for business and computer technology. "Online programs create more options and more flexibility."
The online business administration program will be the second online degree offered in the DCCC Applied Technology Division. The first online degree program was the online computer information technology program.
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North Carolina higher education is moving aggressively online. Thats inevitable, highly advantageous for some students and it may benefit taxpayers.
Projections call for as many as 80,000 more students on the states 16 campuses by the end of the decade. Thats a huge potential expense in terms of brick and mortar alone. Online degree programs offer one part of a solution. Already 130 programs are available online and 24,000 students participate.
Some traditionalists worry that an online university is no university at all if the shared learning environment of a campus is lost. But campuses are not about to be replaced; rather,
East Georgia College now offers the convenience and flexibility of a new online associate degree, accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The online degree is in the programs of general studies, psychology, and sociology. Earn an East Georgia College degree from the comfort of your home, online.
"Online learning is a wonderful option for many students," says Dr. Dee McKinney, who is EGC's coordinator of online teaching and learning. "It allows a great deal of flexibility, reduces commuting time, and provides a medium for creative teaching. I use student-led online discussions, for example,
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