Student identity
verifi cation moves
to center stage
ore than 20 percent tal college student population.
M
of American college Now the issue of student ID verifi cation is
students took at least on higher education’s front burner. What les-
one online course sons can the U.S. Department of Education,
during the fall 2007 accreditors and college administrators learn for
semester. And from the benefi t of all?
2002 to 2007 U.S.
enrollment in online courses grew 19.7 percent, Anonymity changes
reports the Sloan Consortium. Online educa- everything for cheaters
tion’s growth rate of 19.7 percent has noticeably In his classic 1999 book Code and Other
outpaced the 1.5-percent growth rate of the to- Cyberspace Laws, Professor Larry Lessig ex-
plained, “Real-space life…
carries with it this mix of
authenticating and authen-
We think we know who
ticated credentials. Social
life is a constant negotiation
enrolled in that online
between these diff erent cre-
dentials. In a small town, in
course...now, who’s
a quieter time, documents as
credentials were not terribly
taking the exam?
necessary. You were known
by your face, and your face
by Jim Castagnera
carried with it a reference…
about your character. As life
becomes more anonymous,
social institutions must con-
T
oday’s
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ampus
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