helpful, they are not yet sufficient in themselves to provide confidence that the person being examined has done the work. The problem with technology solutions is that there is always a technological way around the solution. Cheating is often the result of a poor educational process or experience. Once again, this comes down to the distinction between learning as transferring information vs learning as a developmental process. If, as I do, you believe education is a developmental process, it is the student in the end who loses from cheating, because they have missed the point of the exercise, which is self development and growth. Comments This has definitely been an issue that I've struggled with in moving some of my assessments online -- the worry or wonderment of if students are actually doing the work themselves, but I have found that by getting to know the students' individual writing styles (luckily I have small classes of approximately 15 students), it can be blatantly obvious if they've had "help" and also having application-based online assessments makes it much more difficult for the students to cheat. DISCLAIMER: The views and opinions expressed by Tony Bates, and all other participants in this blog, are the individual's views and opinions and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of Contact North | Contact Nord.