Fraud-Related Case Method: an Evidence from Professional Ethics Course

Previous research has found indications of academic dishonesty in online learning. Therefore, students need more dense and complex activity-based learning to anticipate laxity in achieving learning outcomes. At the same time, the Ministry of Education and Culture (2021) recommends implementing the case method in learning in higher education. The Case Method is seen as capable of providing valuable learning experiences and placing students in complex learning situations. Based on this view, we expect that the case method can involve students in in-depth learning activities and, in turn, can control academic dishonesty in IT-mediated learning. This course is seen as having enormous potential to teach moral reasoning in an integrative manner. The research will be carried out using a between-sample quasi-experimental method. This study using descriptive statistics and the Mann-Whitney U Test to analyse the collected data. The results show that the fraud-related case method has no effect on controlling academic dishonesty. This condition is thought to occur due to social desirability bias. Social desirability bias is prone to occur in ethical research because subjects tend to position their perceptions following normative social desires. This study recommends improving the design of the fraud-related case method, which is more rigorous and refers to students' learning characteristics.