I thought the Laureate video featuring Drs. Pratt and Palloff was so very interesting. They introduced very modern thinking concerning the outcome of cheating in online courses. As Dr. Pratt stated, it would make sense to design your assessment so that questions require knowledge of application. What I thought was modern about it was.....the he considered some forms of "cheating" collaborating. Students need to learn to collaborate in the work world to find answers to questions they don't know, and it behoves them to learn to do that in their cousework as well.
Of course Dr. Palloff brought out the fact that collaborating and downright claiming someone elses' work are two different things, and the latter needs to be addressed directly and professionally.
I also believe it helps to subject the learners to a short quiz concerning Plagarism at the beginning of the course so that they are aware of exactly what it IS and what is IS NOT.
Plagirism Software.Net is software that categorically searches each sentence and displays the results sequentially. No matter who is using it, and it is free. I also took a lot at iThenticate. According to the website, iThenticate is a service offered by Plagiarism.org, but is geared more toward professional writing and scholarly research. Publishers like Oxford University Press use iThenticate for its Cross Check software, which includes a database of more than 31 million articles and 67,664 books and journals.
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