Research
Here you can find the latest research related to academic integrity, learning outcomes and educational technology.
Featured Articles & Current Topics
Here you can find research articles featured in the Rotman Digital Newsletter, as well as topics related to current events.
Critical thinking is a desired outcome of business education. It can be defined as an evaluation of skills and ideas rather than absorption of knowledge and information and is quickly becoming on of the most employable skills. This research article …
Over the past year the pandemic has dramatically altered college teaching, and one side-effect seems to be a rise in exam cheating. In some cases, students are using homework help sites, including Chegg, to get answers during exams. The company …
The COVID-19 global pandemic of 2020 imposed a unique natural experiment on Regent University MBA students and professors. In this study we consider two research issues. The COVID -19 experience provided practical insight for professors teaching students directly affected by …
Assessment is an important element of any effective teaching and learning strategy. Designing an appropriate assessment strategy is a continual challenge for instructors because the assessment structure must be well aligned with the intended learning outcomes. Technological advances have led …
Academic Integrity
Below you can find the latest research on Academic Integrity in an online setting.
Faculty members are crucial partners in promoting academic integrity at Canadian universities, but their needs related to academic integrity are neither well documented nor understood. To address this gap, we developed a mixed methods survey to gather faculty perceptions of …
Deception and dishonesty in online exams are believed to link to their unmonitored nature where users appear to have the opportunity to collaborate or utilize unauthorized resources during these assessments. The primary goal of this study was to investigate the …
This study explored new ways to maintain academic integrity for large enrollment, completely online courses. We examined the use of ProctorU as our proctoring strategy with the objectives to identify any implementation challenges and understand the impact of using an …
Online education is expected to grow, bringing new challenges. One of the biggest challengesconcerns the validity of online assessments. Questions arise about cheating, including whether ornot the person taking the assessments is the student registered for the course. Studies have …
This paper focuses on reducing cheating opportunities of online test assessment. Increasing use of online test in all course presentation formats(online, blended/hybrid or facilitated) has elevated faculty concerns of cheating.Efforts by educators to reduce cheating have been ongoing and with …
Learning Outcomes
Below you will find research articles about Learning Outcomes.
Learning outcomes are statements that describe the knowledge or skills students should acquire by the end of a particular assignment, class, course, or program, and help students understand why that knowledge and those skills will be useful to them. They …
Everyone has been in conversations or situations in which it is clearly assumed that you know what is being talked about, and you don’t but feel you should. Rather than look stupid you say nothing and wait for the opportunity …
Although Australian students spend three or more years studying they can seem quite unaware of any of the expected learning outcomes of their course. They are often single unit focused, paying most attention to individual assessment items thus not developing …
Learning Science
Below you will find research articles about Learning Science.
People are better able to recall information that they were curious about, as well as incidental material learned during states of high curiosity.
This article studies the generalizability of contextual interference effects on learning new skills.
Appropriate distribution of recitation activities relative to reading improves learning results.
Sleep’s five stages allow for the consolidation of learning in different ways (e.g. deep sleep for foreign languages, REM for math).
Using worked examples for novices and unsolved problems for experts will improve learning experiences.
Returning to the original learning environment (space, music playing in background) improves learning results.
Hands-on activities improve knowledge retention. Doing rather than viewing enhances learning.
Changing the surroundings and context in which one learns improves learning results as it increases available learning cues.
Segmenting learning into smaller, more digestible chunks, improves learning experiences. This is especially true in online learning environments.
Processes of incubation and percolation increase learning when breaks are taken at the point when one is stuck and just prior to completion of the task.
Spacing learning activities over time is more effective for long-term retention. This article recommends optimal study intervals.
Educational Technology
Here you can find the latest research on Educational Technology.
Video lectures are one of the primary learning resources embedded in e-learning environments. Many universities prepare video lectures and share them as open course materials with students. In order to make the learning process more efficient and effective, it is …