What policies are in place to ensure that BrainMass Online TAs uphold academic ethics?
• Online learning, as one of the most important alternative learning approaches, has come under heavy fire with regards to ethical dissemination of knowledge. The issue of plagiarism has become a major obstacle for online learning and has led some people to undervalue the credentials of online learners. The underlying theme of online education has been distorted and misrepresented too frequently. In the face of this situation, our challenge is to identify and embrace ethical practices and models across the complete spectrum of our services and programs. • BrainMass is a self-aware, dynamic community of ethical and qualified Online Teaching Assistants who believe in the common objective of creating information by sharing it. Besides possessing specialized scholarly expertise, our Online TAs are equipped with a strong awareness of the issues surrounding the process of sharing this knowledge. Therefore, they make conscious efforts to circumvent the possibility of promoting unethical learn
