Academic Dishonesty on the Internet and Suggested Strategies to Be Used by Academic Staff to Minimize the Trend

Academic dishonesty on the internet which involves plagiarism, purchase of research paper from online term paper mills, asking for assistance from others through discussion forum and using it without acknowledging the assistance received etc, is becoming more and more sophisticated, with students always developing new ways, strategies and method in order to commit the act. Therefore, making it difficult for their lecturers to differentiate whether the information they provided is legitimate or not. This study aims to know the extent to which students from two colleges in Malaysia understand about academic dishonesty over the internet. Based on the literature, some information and strategies that academic staff can use to minimize student academic dishonesty over the internet are provided. This study uses the survey method consisting of three hundred students (300), two hundred students from one college and the remaining from the other college, through the administering of questionnaire, and focus group discussion was adopted in order to have a full understanding of students ’ knowledge about academic dishonesty over the internet. The result found out that despite the numerous measures that were taken by the colleges to stop academic dishonesty on the internet, students still find and adopt numerous ways to commit the act