Cheating Is Easier Than Ever For Online College Students | TODAY

TODAY’s Savannah Sellers talks to several college students about the difficulties of online learning and why they are cheating on schoolwork during the pandemic.

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Cheating Is Easier Than Ever For Online College Students | TODAY

[TimothyRichard]

Imagine you get expelled because you decided to go on the Today Show and straight up admit that you’re cheating on National Television

[CruiseShipKira]

teachers be like “don’t plagiarize.”
Bruh your entire lesson is on quizlet.

[WanderingRationalist]

*No one* should be surprised by this. Online means access to the internet is part of the learning. I’d be surprised if people _weren’t_ cheating.

[courtneyjune]

This just shows you that when grades matter more than actually learning and providing a quality education this is the outcome.

[sd]

I have classes that are costing me thousands of dollars and never once spoken to the teachers. Everything is computer generated and graded by the computer. They literally do nothing and charge full price. Still being charged student activities fees and campus is closed. That is the real story not that students use the internet to research answers.

[brandonberisford]

College is 90% self taught, 10% learning in class.

[Karina-rkcp]

I had a class where we were allowed to “open notes, open google, open whatever possible” and still got no answer. Now, that’s something else.

[ballinnnn]

lmao y’all late with this? it’s been a year, anyways focus on the real enemies: universities charging full tuition 🙃

[deonridley]

Prof: Copy and paste question = scholar
Student: Copy and paste answer = cheater WTF ?

[kleptomatic]

I don’t cheat and I’m failing. Students who cheat, they are passing.
Most professors aren’t teaching. I have to teach myself as tutoring is limited. I’m just paying the professor to give me a test.

[ryancampbell]

I thought this was public knowledge. The professors are guilty of it as well. You can literally type the questions they ask on a test in google and the answer will come up.

[everestm.radley]

Look, don't blame the students here. This has been a much bigger problem for much longer than anyone wants to admit. The problem is the fact that everything is based on grades: scholarships, banks, jobs, etc, but that grades are arbitrary. Grades are supposed to mean that someone has put a lot of effort in and/or knows the material very well, yet every single student in America knows someone who just memorized the information and forgot it, or those that are just naturally intellectually gifted and that never had to try very hard.

What you're seeing right here is not a problem of cheating, though that may seem like it's the case. What you're seeing right here is a bunch of students adapting to meet the goals set by the university (aka, getting good grades), and then being punished when they meet those goals, simply because they didn't do it the exact way they were supposed to. Now, if you want students to stop cheating, all you've got to do is change the goals.

If learning were actually about learning, guess what, you wouldn't have these record high levels of cheating, because then there wouldn't be a point to it. Cheaters wouldn't be rewarded for good grades, and they wouldn't be able to pass the classes, either.

[lmaoaye]

They love to focus on the students plagiarizing but never the professor doing the same 😭 How you gonna copy someone else’s whole test to then judge students for cheating?

[TalesForTheCulture]

This show is complete & utter BS! I have 4 "teachers" this semester, I can only tell you what ONE of them looks & sounds like. Why is that? The teachers at my school don't even hold classes. No Zoom or Microsoft Teams..NOTHING. How am I supposed to learn Calculus with no actual teacher?? That's the problem, not students trying their best to absorb information on their own & turning to Google because it's a better teacher.

[jennatimm]

Yo just leave us alone and let us pass our classes

[annajames]

STUDENTS ARE DOING THIS TO SURVIVE. AND THEY HAVE TO COMPETE WITH OTHER STUDENTS WHO ARE CHEATING SO IF YOU DONT CHEAT YOU WILL DO WORSE.

[sofiaenger]

Teachers are also guilty of being lazy and unwilling to evaluate their ineffective teaching methods. If they ask questions that can easily be looked up on tests, they're doing something wrong. It's honestly just as ineffective as having students memorize and throw up answers they won't retain long term anyway.

[YTscreams]

College isn't about learning, it's about getting a certification that you can waste money and do your chores in today's hyper-inflated job market.

[ryancampbell]

Guilty of it. Math has never been easier. Chegg and quizlet have been livesavers.

[tonibalogun]

I had a physics class that was open note, open book, open internet, open everything but you couldn’t find anything online for quizzes no matter how much you tried. I feel if professors weren’t lazy and set their own questions, the cheating wouldn’t be a problem.