John Silva Blog

I believe the role of the program manager is implied in the title; the role is to manage. By that I mean that program managers must make sure that assessment happens at the right time by the right people and that they have the requisite tools to get the job done. Program managers, as I understand the term, are not teachers. The are more like administrators so their job is to supervise and manage. If they do take part in assessment, it should be from more of a macro level relating to the organization as a whole and not to individual courses or programs.

Faculty who are skeptical about cheating are exactly the teachers you want. What I would do is ask them, “what would make you comfortable that we are preventing students from cheating?” We would then explore technologies, software, and services to see which we can implement easiest and most effectively to increase the teacher’s comfort level. I would show them the types of assessment commonly used and the measures most teachers use to prevent cheating and see what else needs to be done. Some teachers may not be swayed easily but the best I can do is show them real-life examples of how we prevent cheating in an e-learning environment.