I figured I'd add my anecdotal experience from the perspective of a student, having been to college before and after every answer was online. My experiences are mostly interacting with non-international students as well.
As far as cheating on homework, I feel like it is quite common to just look up answers online, and many people are quite open about doing so.
It comes in different forms. There is what I consider "soft cheating," where people will work on a problem and look it up if they can't figure it out. They intentionally penalize themselves a few points, or if they can't understand how the answer was arrived at tall they will intentionally leave it blank or leave a wrong answer. One time a person I knew refused to write something for an answer even though I thought he understood and explained it to him (talking about homeworks was allowed as long as you list them as a collaborator), because he didn't think he could put it in his own words.
Then there are people who flagrantly don't care, or don't see it as a problem. Often their justification is that the university system is a sham, or that everyone else does it. Some people seem to have gotten through by relying on homework helper sites, and scrape by just on getting perfect homework schools while bombing tests.
I feel like I have to compete in this environment, but see it as a personal challenge. The problem is that I suspect professors have adjusted by over-assigning homework to compensate, so it makes it more time-consuming to do well. I personally feel this is a broken situation.
Professors should probably change their approach, and just outright allow the use of secondary sources as long as they are cited. I know a few who seem to implicitly allow this, but most students fear citing work as possibly indicting them as cheaters.
I'd view this as a temporary solution until we figure out a better approach that maintains institutional academic integrity, encourages learning, and fairly evaluates performance.
I got downvoted and can't edit my response, but wanted to add that I'm not endorsing or advocating cheating, or trying to paint anyone as inherently dishonest. I just think the system will have to adapt to the new reality, and should acknowledge that this info is widely available.
As far as cheating on homework, I feel like it is quite common to just look up answers online, and many people are quite open about doing so.
It comes in different forms. There is what I consider "soft cheating," where people will work on a problem and look it up if they can't figure it out. They intentionally penalize themselves a few points, or if they can't understand how the answer was arrived at tall they will intentionally leave it blank or leave a wrong answer. One time a person I knew refused to write something for an answer even though I thought he understood and explained it to him (talking about homeworks was allowed as long as you list them as a collaborator), because he didn't think he could put it in his own words.
Then there are people who flagrantly don't care, or don't see it as a problem. Often their justification is that the university system is a sham, or that everyone else does it. Some people seem to have gotten through by relying on homework helper sites, and scrape by just on getting perfect homework schools while bombing tests.
I feel like I have to compete in this environment, but see it as a personal challenge. The problem is that I suspect professors have adjusted by over-assigning homework to compensate, so it makes it more time-consuming to do well. I personally feel this is a broken situation.
Professors should probably change their approach, and just outright allow the use of secondary sources as long as they are cited. I know a few who seem to implicitly allow this, but most students fear citing work as possibly indicting them as cheaters.
I'd view this as a temporary solution until we figure out a better approach that maintains institutional academic integrity, encourages learning, and fairly evaluates performance.