Will online degrees become worthless because of AI?

[Hotdogman1]

So many students cheat when testing in person. I used to see so many students cheating at one university I attended in person years ago. When there's 300 students and 1 TA it's not hard. I have wondered if this is why some professors moved to open notes for exams. You still had time limits so you had to have great organized notes for it to help you.

For in-person testing at my testing center, we have 25 testing stations per lab, 1 camera above every testing station, and at least 4 different camera angles for each desk: left, above, right, and behind. From the proctor's desk, we can access the cameras, view student's monitors, and take control of their computers at any time. We can rewind the videos a week and the camera can zoom in. We also periodically walk around the lab to make sure students aren't hiding anything below their desks. If MLB had the camera coverage we have, challenges would last 30 seconds. Even with a proctor in the lab and a supervisor monitoring the cameras, people still try to cheat.

If anything, I think that online programs may end up being more resistant to cheating. Individual professors' ability to detect cheating will always be a bit spotty, while online programs will be more likely to put in place uniform detection methods.

We manually review the videos of every remotely proctored test regardless of the subject. When we find someone cheating/suspicious, we escalate it to the professor for them to handle. We get complaints from professors at least once a week that our standards are unreasonable. Some professors never respond or don’t care enough to take disciplinary action. A contributing factor is probably pay. For some reason, my proctor hourly pay is likely at least 3 times higher than the average adjunct hourly pay.