Aftermath of Cheating

I received this video from Caveon Test Security Newsletter. Caveon is a company that consults and provides services related to maintaining the integrity of tests. The video shows the lecture given to students by their instructor about how he found out about the cheating, and what would happen because of the cheating.

It's a nice peak into a major cheating scandal, and how one instructor worked with his colleagues to address the issue and give students a chance to correct the problem.

Professor Speech About Cheating from Knight News on Vimeo.

Gamifying Classes

Sarah over at Harper College passed this to me: an article about gamifying classes from the Chronicle of Higher Ed, or how to use game mechanics to create incentives for students to engage course content.

The comments have some really nice ideas (language learning and literacy). The thing I thought of was to create achievements for using specific vocabulary in posts in Stats class...getting students to use the language of the course.