Technological Approaches to Maintaining Academic Integrity in Management Education

Abstract

Challenges to academic integrity in management education appear to be on the rise in U.S. institutions of higher education. In an effort to reduce cheating and plagiarism in business education, universities have turned to a variety of technological approaches. However, technology cannot be considered a panacea for ensuring academic integrity and is probably best viewed as a “stop gap” measure that can eventually be compromised. The authors begin this chapter by describing how declining ethics has been evidenced recently in business. Then, they present a review of the literature describing the extent and causes of academic dishonesty and discuss what some educational institutions are doing to address academic integrity, including calls for an increase in ethics education. Finally, they review technological approaches used by many colleges and universities to prevent cheating and plagiarism, examining the features, strengths, weaknesses, and current status of each technology.

Lack of Ethics for eLearning

“…Ethics education through the virtues approach was the emphasis of a survey of business school deans noting that there has been an increased emphasis on ethics education over the past 20 years. This emphasis not only addressed the concerns in higher education, but also to deal with the corporate and governmental ethical scandals (Heisler, Westfall, & Kitahara, 2012).…”