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Publication: The Daily Barometer, , Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
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With the majority of students studying online due to COVID-19, it has become easier to compromise one’s academic integrity—such as cheating, utilizing and crediting sources and using the web during exams.
Nabil Boudraa, professor of French and French coordinator at Oregon State University, considers cheating to be nothing more than an easy way out. “It is too easy to just copy a thought or idea from a website instead of using one’s brain to think and produce one’s own thoughts and ideas,” Boudraa said.
“This damages one’s personal integrity and leads to intellectual laziness, among other flaws,” Boudraa said.
COVID-19 influenced the act of cheating, making it so students have more privacy and therefore, less surveillance around them.
“The most important thing that students get from...