Online teaching: Do you know who is taking the final exam?
Qinghai Gao · 2025
In recent years Distance Learning has been steadily gaining popularity.More and more courses are being taught online.However, one question remains for those who teach online courses: who is doing the real course work?In this paper we will briefly survey the commonly used methods to prevent students from e-cheating, attempt to answer the question whether present technology has made it possible to completely eliminate student dishonesty in Distance Learning.In particular we look at how biometrics as identification tools can be applied to achieve this goal.The main purpose of the paper is to ask college educators and policy makers to rethink the credibility and quality of modern college education which could be endangered by issuing college degrees to the students who never really took the required courses.