So what is iCheating?
iCheating is running rampant across basic iLearning solution providers, without them even knowing it!
Platform users appoint others to carry out their on-line skills assessments. This is done to achieve competency, to pass requirements, because of fear of failure or because some people find it easier to cheat than to learn. Cheating in exams, tests and assessments has always been evident, however when mixed with iLearning providers who may not have deep education knowledge (and there are many!), it becomes so much easier!
The majority of iLearning solutions providers merely use a series of computer generated processes for participants to enter responses to pre-determined questions (such as radio buttons). These responses are then assessed via computer coding (you got it “right”, move on – you got it “wrong”, try again). Feedback to users is also automatically generated from calculations to the previously entered responses (akin to computer coding of multiple choice answers).
As such, the iLearning provider, your system’s administration and your line managers are not aware that the user has not actually undertaken the learning, merely orchestrated a method of acquiring accreditation without merit. More worrying, reports of training and compliance reflect that the user has undertaken training and has acquired the necessary skills; when, in fact, they have not.
