Harvard, MIT Researchers Find Cheating in Online Courses

This story originally appeared in The Boston Globe.

Something didn’t seem right. As two researchers at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology pored over piles of data collected from people around the world enrolled in free online classes, their radar went up. 

Certain users were answering test questions “faster than humanly possible.” Turns out, the users were cheating.

With more digging and a new algorithm, the two scientists discovered that hundreds of learners were skirting the system by using multiple accounts to cheat on tests for massive open online courses, or MOOCs...

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