I do not want to defend cheating but I see 2 big issues which promotes this behavior.
1. Course was created to scale so cheating is super easy and harder to spot without side channel (common pool of multiple choice questions).
Author fixed this, which deserves huge thumbs up. Also making course more interesting is great and I would love if all teachers reflected this. Punishing students without changing course would probably did not solve anything.
2. Technical course students have zero clue about technology they use but they completely trust it.
It looks like they do not care about learning how thinks work. Probably they are there just for a degree. Imagine hiring someone like that, freshly from college, without experience and not willing to learn anything.
1. Course was created to scale so cheating is super easy and harder to spot without side channel (common pool of multiple choice questions).
Author fixed this, which deserves huge thumbs up. Also making course more interesting is great and I would love if all teachers reflected this. Punishing students without changing course would probably did not solve anything.
2. Technical course students have zero clue about technology they use but they completely trust it.
It looks like they do not care about learning how thinks work. Probably they are there just for a degree. Imagine hiring someone like that, freshly from college, without experience and not willing to learn anything.