The courses are “massive” with sometimes tens of thousands of students and “open” (free to enrol) but one big unanswered questions is how these courses intend to preserve their credibility in assessment and accreditation. More...22 avril 2019
Credentials in the cloud: how will MOOCs deal with plagiarism?
The courses are “massive” with sometimes tens of thousands of students and “open” (free to enrol) but one big unanswered questions is how these courses intend to preserve their credibility in assessment and accreditation. More...21 avril 2019
Putin’s plagiarism, fake Ukrainian degrees and other tales of world leaders accused of academic fraud
But academic fraud is nothing new – and it wasn’t invented in the United States. In certain countries, my research on academic corruption attests, some public officials have built their entire political careers on the false pretense of scholastic achievement.Accusations against Putin first surfaced in 2006, when an investigation by the Brookings Institution alleged he copied about 16 pages of his 200-page Ph.D. dissertation from other sources.
Twelve years later, the Russian strongman found himself defending against accusations that his dissertation had been ghostwritten. According to former Russian legislator Olga Litvinenko, Putin’s dissertation was written by her father, Vladimir Litvinenko, Putin’s academic advisor and the rector of Saint Petersburg Mining University. More...
03 avril 2019
Universities must stop relying on software to deal with plagiarism
Educational software – whether it’s a teaching aid or a program designed to help teachers with administration – is big business. The recent multi-billion dollar acquisition of Turnitin, a program that is used around the world to flag possible evidence of plagiarism, is further proof of this. More...
Plagiarism Policing and Profit
By Barbara Fister. John Warner had a perfect response to the news that Turnitin has been sold for big bucks. First imagined in 1998, it launched as an ed-tech product along with the Plagiarism.org site in 2000, but even then it had ambitions to be used in publishing as well. More...
02 avril 2019
‘Rampant Plagiarism’ and ‘Patently Deficient’ Online Education
By Elizabeth Redden. Staff at a Virginia regulator recommend revoking certificate to operate small college catering to international students after an audit uncovered concerns about academic quality. More...
03 décembre 2018
When Plagiarism's Shadow Falls on Admired Scholars
When Plagiarism's Shadow Falls on Admired Scholars
Rip. Mix. Burn. Two Harvard professors are caught with unattributed remix content in their books. Piracy? Plagiarism? Of course not - it was all an oversight. The punishment? "'The discovery is the punishment,' Professor Gillers said." Sure. Let's punish students in the same way, then, or underground remix artists. More...
30 novembre 2018
Changing the Citation Conversation
Rethinking the ways we talk to our students about plagiarism. More...
28 novembre 2018
2 Cases of Plagiarism, and an Explanation of Why the Practice Might Be Worth It
2 Cases of Plagiarism, and an Explanation of Why the Practice Might Be Worth It
So anyhow, welcome from Cairns, Australia. I had a fun day today, which began by my missing my flight from Brisbane to Cairns (more accurately - I arrived at the airport in plenty of time, Quantas had me stand in line for an hour and then told me I was too late). So Monday's OLDaily arrives sometime Tuesday. More...
20 novembre 2018
Période d'examen : attention plagiat
Quel étudiant n'a jamais été sur internet, taper son sujet de dissertation dans la barre de recherche pour copier un plan ? Qui ne s'est jamais "inspiré" de travaux de recherche ? Qui n'a jamais été tenté de partager sur Internet les cours d'un enseignant ?
Le plagiat est une fraude courante et ignorée par les étudiants. Elle ne se remarque pas, puisque seules certaines informations sont reproduites sur une copie sans en être un copier-coller. Les risques vont bien au delà de la simple sanction disciplinaire lorsque l'on :
- "s'inspire" d'un sujet de thèse
- reprend les théories issues d'un travail de recherche ou d'un ouvrage
Le plagiat est un délit, il se définit comme "toute reproduction, représentation ou diffusion, par quelque moyen que ce soit, d'une oeuvre de l'esprit en violation des droits de l'auteur, tels qu'ils sont définis et réglementés par la loi". Plus...
