Online Academic Cheating in the Twenty-First Century

ABSTRACT

The issue of poor ethics and integrity among students as well as in the working communities is an alarming issue that needs to be addressed. The value of ethics can be built and instill during the school days especially during the tertiary level because entering the workforce will be their next milestone. Nevertheless, the issue of online academic cheating has been rampant in most universities, mostly due to the advancement of technologies and there are various creative methods to cheating these days and these students have improvised from the usual traditional cheating methods. Traditional classroom learning also has transcend to online learning these days due to COVID-19 pandemic that swept across the world since end of year 2019 till today. This chapter will discuss the concept of online learning, definitions of academic cheating, reasons for online cheating by students, various online cheating methods as well as the ways to mitigate the problems of online academic cheating among students in the twenty-first century. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.