Among the most common concerns expressed is whether Web-based courses can maintain standards of academic integrity similar to standards for traditional courses. WBI, to its detractors, echoes of matchbook cover diploma mills. Often the student is tested on recall or recognition. The corporate training world has long promoted outcomes-based learning. An employee is presented with learning opportunities and either learns the information or does not.
Mastery is crucial.
The amount of time spent mastering the material is secondary. While the opportunity for misrepresentation certainly exists, higher education has come to terms with the odds. With the advent of correspondence courses came a reassessment of the means of measuring student performance. But not all in higher education were convinced of the academic integrity of correspondence courses. But in many cases, trust and enticement to honesty and integrity are not enough.