Dysfunctional Digital Demeanors: Tales From (and Policy Implications of) eLearning's Dark Side

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Author(s): Alexander G. Flor (University of the Philippines (Open University), Philippines)and Benjamina Gonzalez-Flor (University of the Philippines – Los Baños, Philippines)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 14
Source title: The Dark Web: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3163-0.ch003

Keywords: Computer Science & IT / Information Science Reference / Web Technologies / Web Technologies & Engineering

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eLearning has been associated with a number of behaviors that are considered dysfunctional. Among these behaviors that form part of the Dark Web are cyber-bullying, plagiarism, hacking and other forms of cheating. This chapter describes, illustrates and typologizes these behaviors with cases observed by the authors among their online students or culled from student disciplinary boards in the past ten years. The elaboration of tales from eLearning's dark side is followed by an exploration of policy implications. Employing the problematique method, the authors attempt to trace the root causes (psychological, sociological and technological) and offer policy options to address these roots.

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