THESSALONIKI, Greece: 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.
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A student of the Faculty of Law of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki attends a videoconference course. Shuttered for over a year due to 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’. — AFP
Empty classrooms in the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki. — AFP
Alexandros Chatzigeorgiou, Dean and Professor of the Department of Applied Informatics poses in a classroom in the University of Macedonia, in Thessaloniki. Both professors and students admit that examination safeguards are practically impossible to enforce in a remote learning environment with hundreds of participants simultaneously online. — AFP
Alexandros Chatzigeorgiou, Dean and Professor of the Department of Applied Informatics poses for a photograph in a classroom in the University of Macedonia, in Thessaloniki. — AFP
An outside view of the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki. — AFP
An inside view of the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki. — AFP
Students pass next of the Faculty of Education of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. — AFP
Students pass next of the Faculty of Education of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. — AFP
A student of the Faculty of Law of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki attends a videoconference course. — AFP
A student passes next of the Faculty of Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. — AFP
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