“Our progress as a nation cannot be faster than our progress in education…The human spirit is our fundamental resource” (Kennedy, 1961). If our minds are a fundamental resource, as President Kennedy suggests, and our progress as a nation is linked to the progress of our education, does this mean that online education can improve, or even accelerate, our progress ? The perception of online learning is varied, based on conversations with individuals of different socio-economic levels. “Online course delivery has become increasingly popular due to several advantages for both educational institutions and students in terms of flexibility in scheduling” (Lu, 2012, p. 963). The general perception is that the younger audience is more oriented towards online learning, because they are more comfortable with new technologies. So, is an online course preferred to an in-person course? Are online courses gaining popularity because you can cheat more? Spaulding (2009) conducted research on “Perceptions of Academic Honesty in Online or Face-to-Face Classrooms” (Spaulding, 2009) with the goal of giving instructors a way to address this topic with students and reduce academic dishonesty in online classes. online instruction format. His hypothesis is that in reality, a student working in an online environment will cheat more than a student working face-to-face. After conducting a survey of 103 students in online and face-to-face classes, he found that his hypothesis was incorrect. No significant differences were found in cheating between the two classroom formats. An interesting fact to emerge from the survey is that 29.1% of students have either observed or themselves submitted another's material as their own for academic evaluation at least...... middle of the 'article ......ances in health sciences Education, 29(6), 963-973. doi:10.1007/s10459-012-9435-3Southwell, M., Galassi, M., & McRobert, S. (December 2012). Fish Cam: an online tool to demonstrate schooling behavior in the classroom. Zebrafish, 9(4), 242-245. doi:10.1089/zeb.2012.0755 Spaulding, M. (2009, Winter). Perceptions of academic honesty in online versus face-to-face classrooms. Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 8(3), 183-198. Retrieved October 19, 2013 from http://www.ncolr.org/jiol/issues/pdf/8.3.1.pdf Szpunar, KK, Moulton, ST and Schacter, DT (August 1, 2013). Mind wandering and education: from the classroom to online learning. Frontiers in Psychology, 4(495), eCollection. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00495University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. (1998). Chickscope. Retrieved October 19, 2013, from the Beckman Institute website: http://chickscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/