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The Significance of Self-Awareness

Post author By Mike Murphy
Post date July 21st, 2015

Self awareness, cheating, and online classes. How are these things related? Well, for starters, they all work off of each other. This study on anonymity finds that self awareness is a resource for preventing cheating in online classes. How? The feeling of anonymity in online classes is something we have touched base before (here and here). […]

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The Anonymous Factor

Post author By Mike Murphy
Post date January 15th, 2015

In a case study that explored asynchronous communication experiences and perspectives of online students, results found that one of the main advantages students enjoyed was the the anonymous factor. Why is being anonymous an advantage? Students felt that they could ask more questions to their instructor. Students reported that they hesitated to ask questions or […]

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