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The Issues Related To Student Authentication in Distance Education

Published:2012 Issue: Volume: Page:176-185
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Container-title:Ethical Impact of Technological Advancements and Applications in Society
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Author:

Gearhart Deb¹

Affiliation:

1. Troy University, USA

Abstract

As long as there has been distance education there has been the question how do you know the student turning in the work is the student registered for the course? As technology has been improving distance education course delivery, online education has been growing in leaps and bounds. The most recent Sloan-C report stated that in the U. S. alone there were almost 3.9 million students taking at least one online course during the fall of 2007 term (Allen and Seaman, 2008). Legislators took a hard look at the issue of student authentication in distance education with the passage of the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008. This paper reviews the issues related to student authentication and reviews the current forms of student authentication, reviewing one institution’s answer to student authentication in its online programs.

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IGI Global

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