Busting plagiarism: Difference between revisions

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Description: faculty workshop on intellectual dishonesty
Objectives: examine the pedagogical issues involved in plagiarism and intellectual dishonesty; learn to detect plagiarism with the aid of electronic tools; know the legal basis for busting plagiarism and intellectual dishonesty.
Methodology: panel discussion from different fields; use of detection tools
Workshop schedule and venue: Monday, 27 Sept 2010, 2-5pm, DILC
Workshop participants: UPD faculty
Topics

Definitional and Legal Issues (45 mins) - elements of plagiarism, examples from different domains
Pedagogical Prevention of Plagiarism (45 mins) - steps teachers can do to help prevent plagiarism in class
Tools Available and Methodological Issues in Busting Plagiarism (45 mins) - use of certain tools to detect and substantiate instances of plagiarism

Collaboration. "Real world" jobs require people to work together. Shouldn't students start "collaborating" in school? How or when does collaboration become "cheating"?
Knowledge and skills assessment. Which methods of assessment discourage cheating? Are exams, term papers effective in the assessment of students' knowledge?
Intellectual dishonesty and licenses (copyright, Creative Commons, open source). Certain licenses encourage "copying" but certainly not cheating.
What courses of action at various levels (department, college, university) are due to address plagiarism and intellectual dishonesty?

Suggested Readings

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 * [http://tjhunt.blogspot.com/2009/10/open-universitys-approach-to-plagiarism.html The Open University's approach to plagiarism]
 * [http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091020/us_time/08599193097100 How Plagiarism Software Found a New Shakespeare Play]
+* [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/education/06cheat.html?pagewanted=all To Stop Cheats, Colleges Learn Their Trickery]
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