Remote cheating leads to 'corona degrees' in Greece » Borneo Bulletin Online

April 18, 2021
THESSALONIKI, GREECE (AFP) – Shuttered for over a year because of the Covid-19 pandemic, Greek universities are now grappling with a surge in online exam cheating giving rise to a new reality: the “corona degree”.
Both professors and students candidly admit that examination safeguards are practically impossible to enforce in a remote-learning environment with hundreds of participants simultaneously online.
“In jest, we call the degrees to be awarded this season ‘corona degrees’,” said John Mylopoulos, a professor of environmental engineering and former rector of Thessaloniki’s Aristotelio University.
“Remote learning is supposed to be a supplementary education tool. When it completely subsumes teaching, problems begin,” he told

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