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The Center for Academic Integrity
An association of more than 225 institutions that provides a forum
for identifying and promoting the values of academic integrity.
www.academicintegrity.org
What is Plagiarism?
Guidelines from the Georgetown University Honor Council.
www.georgetown.edu/honor/plagiarism.html
Avoiding Plagiarism
Guidelines from the Office of Student Judicial Affairs at the University
of California, Davis.
http://sja.ucdavis.edu/avoid.htm
Online Plagiarism
With the increasing number of online term-paper mills, such as Schoolsucks.com
and Cheater.com, students have an even greater temptation to plagiarize. Instead
of copying text out of books or journals by hand, students can now find an array
of term papers online and can copy and paste blocks of text right into their
word processors (Heberling, 2002). Deceitful students may also copy papers from
Web sites of conference proceedings or well-intentioned academics. As of March
2003, the Kimbel Library at Coastal Carolina University had identified 250 active
Internet term-paper and essay Web sites (Fain, 2003). A national survey conducted
by Donald McCabe, a professor of management at Rutgers University, found that
54 percent of students admitted to plagiarizing from the Internet; 74 percent
of students admitted that at least once during the past school year they had
engaged in "serious" cheating; and 47 percent of students believe their teachers
sometimes choose to ignore students who are cheating (Stricherz, 2001).
In the May-June 2002 issue of the Journal of College Student Development, Patrick M. Scanlon and David R. Neumann of the Rochester Institute of Technology reported their research findings on Internet plagiarism. Surprisingly, their research indicates that the proliferation of Internet plagiarism may not be as extensive as many may assume. The professors polled 698 undergraduate students at nine institutions of higher learning. Some 16.5 percent of the respondents reported plagiarizing "sometimes," while 50.4 percent claimed that their peers "often" or "very frequently" committed plagiarism. Slightly more respondents said they plagiarized conventional text more than online documents and almost 100 percent agreed that their peers plagiarized conventional text. Scanlon and Neumann concluded that more conventional plagiarism is occurring, while the growth of online plagiarism may not be significantly contributing to the growth of plagiarism in general (Kellogg, 2002). These statistics show that online access to papers has increased plagiarism in both the traditional and online classroom. However, because papers are submitted electronically in the virtual classroom, it is easier for online instructors to detect plagiarism by running student-submitted papers through plagiarism-detecting Web sites or software programs (Heberling, 2002).
Beck Technology recently announced that it will donate its DProfiler software platform to colleges and universities for use in construction-related coursework.
Microsoft is initiating the fourth in a series of datacenter upgrades to enable its cloud computing services, according to a Microsoft blog post Tuesday. And, like everything else in the software world, being highly modular is a good thing.
Now that we are conducting at least a part of our business of education virtually and often meeting in virtual environments, let's explore the really big question for academics in a Web 2.0 era...
A college or university without a Web site is inconceivable today, but with every site comes the challenge of managing content. Some sort of automated system is a given, but how much should the site's content management system integrate with other aspects of the campus computing infrastructure?
How IBM's new release is following through on old challenges... big ones.
North Idaho College will be implementing a new classroom capture system as part of an effort to provide accessible education to students with disabilities. The college will be using SpeakerBox from ClearSky Systems for the lecture capture program beginning in January 2009.
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