Title: Discuss: Is LockDown Browser the Best Way to Deter or Catch Cheating Online?
Course: Academic Integrity > Section: Encouraging Academic Integrity

Should we be using Lockdown Browser and other tools to monitor our students' behavior? At what point does this become a helpful tool or a dehumanizing one?

In Winona Ryder and the Internet of Things, Jesse Stommel states, "I am worried that students' own laptop cameras might be used to monitor them while they take tests. I am worried that those cameras will report data about eye movement back to an algorithm that changes the difficulty of questions. I am worried because these things take us further away from what education is actually for. I am worried because these things make education increasingly about obedience, not learning" (2016, Educause Review).

How much do you agree or disagree with this statement? Why or why not? What other steps can and do you take to help deter cheating?