Online Academic Dishonesty of College Students: A Review

Abstract

e-Learning provides students with an open, free, and self-supervised scene, which has found a feasible path for lifelong education. The quality of online learning and the certification of achievements must be based on the real learning process. According to the existing literature, research on online academic dishonesty (OAD) is relatively rare. We need to advance future research based on the past experience on online academic dishonesty, and we also need to systematically sort out the research conclusions and possible development directions of this topic. In this paper, the author systematically combed the relevant literature on online academic dishonesty, covering most of the relevant papers as of the end of 2019. Most research on online academic fraud has the following characteristics: using questionnaires to obtain exploration conclusions, focusing on learners in a certain discipline or situation, lack of research on big data learning behavior sample data, and the formation mechanism of online academic dishonesty behavior needs to be further studied and elaboration. The research results show that online academic dishonesty is indeed widespread, and the factors that cause the dishonesty behavior come from many aspects such as personality, cognition, teaching, system, etc. In future research, it is necessary to identify online academic dishonesty in time and take comprehensive intervention measures to make integrity and moral culture in online environments.