Ethics and Distance Education: Strategies for Minimizing Academic Dishonesty in Online Assessment
This paper discusses ethics and student assessment, as applicable to the growing field of distance education. In particular, this paper discusses strategies for minimizing academic dishonesty in online student assessment. Among the strategies discussed are acknowledging the disadvantages of online assessment and overcoming them, designing an effective, cheat-proof online assessment, keeping online courses current, and providing students with an academic dishonesty policy.
http://www.westga.edu/%7Edistance/ojdla/fall53/olt53.html
Color Helps
The following compilation of links is courtesy of Dr. Elena Kays and Janet Bowen:
http://www.smartpixel.net/chromoweb/uks/a3gb.html
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/
http://www.wilsonmar.com/1colors.htm
http://www.hitmill.com/html/color_safe.html
http://delphi.about.com/od/fullcodeprojects/l/aa012704a.htm
New social interation tools for online instruction
This paper begins by describing the types of interactions afforded by social interaction and discusses some of the existing tools that can appropriated for these purposes and their limitations with regards to these types of interactions. It ends with a call for people in our field, as key stakeholders, to propose, build, and evaluate additional social interaction tools so that more of the benefits of social interaction can be made available in online instruction.
http://it.coe.uga.edu/itforum/paper81/paper81.html
ED7505 - Internet Resources
Internet resources compiled by classmates of ED7505 related to evaluation and assessment of instructional design:
http://www.lc.capellauniversity.edu/~149388/ED7505.htm
Internet Archive: Wayback Machine
Browse through 30 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago. To start surfing the Wayback, type in the web address of a site or page where you would like to start, and press enter. Then select from the archived dates available. The resulting pages point to other archived pages at as close a date as possible. Keyword searching is not currently supported, but there are some researcher tools that perform similar functions (see the researcher tool section).