By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Blackboard Unveils Plagiarism Prevention Service
Blackboard has launched a plagiarism detection service. It compares submitted work to a database of 2.6 million papers along with articles submitted by institutions and 'voluntarily' by students. The company is also up to its old tricks - despite the longstanding (and controversial) existence of TurnItIn, Blackboard does not even blush when it claims that "SafeAssign is a unique plagiarism prevention service because student and/or faculty papers are included." It's hard not to see the irony in the copying of an anti-plagiarism service. More...
13 novembre 2019
Blackboard Unveils Plagiarism Prevention Service
11 octobre 2019
Près d’un étudiant français sur deux a déjà fait un plagiat
Le plagiat a beau être strictement interdit dans l’enseignement supérieur, les étudiants comprennent visiblement mal ce que ce terme veut dire, selon une étude européenne réalisée par l’université de Coventry. Plus...
30 septembre 2019
La France toujours aussi passive face aux plagiats
Dans une enquête à charge, une professeur accuse l’université française de fermer les yeux sur ces fraudes et certains mandarins de plagier leurs doctorants. Plus...
29 septembre 2019
Corée du Sud : le monde universitaire secoué par des plagiats massifs
200 professeurs issus de 50 universités différentes sont accusés de s’être approprié les livres d’autres auteurs. Certains éditeurs sont accusés d’avoir fermé les yeux sur la pratique, et pour certains, de l’avoir encouragée. Plus...
27 septembre 2019
Can You Plagiarize A Photograph?
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Can You Plagiarize A Photograph?
You stand in the same place as someone did once before, point your camera in the same direction - usually at something obvious, like the Eiffel Tower or the Sydney Opera House - and you take what amounts to the same picture as your predecessor. Is it plagiarism? The answer is not so obvious as you might think. Certainly, there is a premium for originality - I was really pleased in 2004, for example, to have been able to take this photo of the opera house from a different angle than the thousands of shots taken before mine. More...
15 septembre 2019
Plagiarisme di UNJ: persekongkolan akademisi dan politikus
Temuan plagiarisme beberapa disertasi para pejabat publik alumni program pascasarjana Universitas Negeri Jakarta (UNJ), yang berujung pada pemecatan Rektor UNJ Profesor Djaali minggu ini, adalah contoh kecil dari carut-marutnya pengelolaan universitas di Indonesia. More...05 septembre 2019
Students Rebel Against Database Designed to Thwart Plagiarists
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Maria Glod[Edit][Delete]: Students Rebel Against Database Designed to Thwart Plagiarists, Washington Post [Edit][Delete] October 2, 2006
Well this is a good point. How can anti-plagiarism services operate without ignoring copyright? "They object to Turnitin's automatically adding their essays to the massive database, calling it an infringement of intellectual property rights." It's a good point, as is the presumption of guilt implicit in use of the service. More...
12 juillet 2019
Plagiarism: Another Perspective
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Charles Nelson[Edit][Delete]: Plagiarism: Another Perspective, Explorations in Learning [Edit][Delete] August 9, 2006
Interesting take on what may be called "institutional plagiarism," including "ghostwriting, honorary authorship, political speechwriting and beauracratic documents." Certainly I have seen no shortage of presentations written by staff for some executive member or officer who will present it (it's always sad to see them flip through slides knowing nothing about their content). For that matter, what would we call a news article that reprints a press release? An editorial that reprints a campaign circular. More...
24 juin 2019
The New Plagiarism
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Jonathan Bailey[Edit][Delete]: The New Plagiarism, Plagiarism Today [Edit][Delete] May 24, 2006
At the best of times I am pretty sceptical about accustaions of plagiarism. In this case, where the author depicts a type of (what he considers to be) excess block quoting with attribution to be a new form of plagiarism, I am inclined to side with the numerous critics of the piece. To be sure, there are blogs of the type he describes in our field. But I have never detected any loss of readership or confusion about attribution as a consequence. 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...
