There will be webcasts Monday to Friday at 10.00 PDT (that's 19.00 German time) on interesting topics - I've signed up for a few.
- Monday, April 22: Jason Stephens, Educational Psychologist at University of Connecticut - Students and Plagiarism: Exploring the Disconnect Between Morals and Behavior
- Tuesday, April 23: Renee Swensen, Professor of English at Saddleback College - Plagiarism Spectrum Drill Down
- Wednesday, April 24: Lynn Lampert, Chair of Reference & Instructional Services and Coordinator of Information Literacy & Instruction at California State University Northridge - Responding to Plagiarism: Lesson Plans and Strategies
- Thursday, April 25: Teddi Fishman, Director, International Center for Academic Integrity - Policy to Practice: Developing Effective Academic Integrity Policies
- Friday, April 26: Kelly McBride, Senior Faculty, Ethics, Reporting and Writing, Poynter - Teaching Originality, Creativity, and Critical Thinking
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Turnitin is the wrong way. The Software should be free Software. Turnitin is way to expansive and they do not provide much service. They just make it look nice for the lazy reviewers.
ReplyDeleteThe funny (and most important) part is to create OCR softcopies of all the known papers, books and articles out there. So first, someone needs to fix copyright law and allow more open access and fair use (Not that little change that happened in Germany today).
Google books/scholar is a much better source than turnitin. And *science* needs open access with open data. Everything else does not make any sense. Sorry.
Oh, I quite agree with you, Anonymous! Google Books and Google Scholar are faster to use and more effective than Turnitin or any of the other software systems. But I am glad that people are talking about plagiarism, and if it takes a company to sponsor that, I'm happy about it.
ReplyDeleteOpen Access will make it easier to find the plagiarists. But will Germany fix it's broken copyright law before I retire? I'm not betting on it.