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LMS Buying Trends in Higher Education

How Much Does Students' Health Impact Their Academic Success?

We’ve all heard Mom’s advice before: “Eat healthy, get plenty of sleep, and exercise so you will do well in school.” But how many students really do that? And if they do, does it impact their academic success?

Cheaters and the Business World

Recent studies in Higher Education have estimated that up to 80% of college students have cheated in some way or another during their college careers. It is an alarming trend at colleges both in the U.S. as well as throughout the rest of the world[...]

ProctorFree welcomes Eric McGee

Please join us in welcoming Eric McGee to the ProctorFree team. Eric brings a wealth of knowledge and over 10 years of higher education experience. As Director of Partnership Development, Eric will work with current and future university partners to[...]

ProctorFree - Predicting cheating in college

Want to see a magic trick? OK, follow along. I can predict with extreme accuracy whether or not you cheated in college. Regardless of once, twice, or for all 4 years. It doesn’t matter if it was one assignment with a smidgen of plagiarism, a little[...]

ProctorFree - This Week in Cheating

Apparently in the revelry following the New Zealand All Blacks win in the Rugby World Cup, some overly excited student at Auckland based Avondale College circulated a hoax letter describing a new cheating deterrent. Deterrence is a big deal for us[...]

Cheating Culture

College students know all too well the blanket of fear that covers the class as the teacher reads “zero tolerance policy for cheating” from the syllabus. Whether it is writing a paper, taking a formula based math exam, or conducting a science[...]

ProctorFree - This Week in Cheating: Go to Jail!

So if I understand this article correctly (click here), in China there is an exam you take in high school that determines your future education potential and career opportunities. It doesn’t get much more “high stakes” than that. Where there are[...]

ProctorFree - Top 5 Reasons OLC 15 had us feeling like celebrities

Disclaimer – this is a tongue-in-cheek post. OLC is a very legitimate and serious conference for e-learning. We’re just having a little fun here.

Another OLC has come and gone. Another wonderful year at the Swan and Dolphin Resort on the Disney[...]

Can Social Media Be a Learning Tool?

Written by Nicholas Alesantrino