Posts Tagged ‘academic integrity’
May 17 - Turnitin Study Examines ‘Copy and Paste’ Plagiarism
By: Mary Bart in Trends in Higher Education
When students need to write a paper, where do they go? A study released last month on plagiarism found that social and user-generated websites are the most popular resources, followed by academic and homework-related sites. Cheat sites and paper mills comprised less than 15 percent of the total resources used and showed the most significant decline over the period examined.
April 7 - How to Detect and Prevent Plagiarism in the Online Classroom
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
This seminar provides a blueprint for preventing and detecting plagiarism in the online classroom whether it’s “copy and paste” plagiarism or material that is written for students by paper mills.
March 21 - Five Ways to Tackle Cheating in College
By: Mary Bart in Effective Teaching Strategies
Consider the following exam day scenario. While the students are taking their exam, you look up from the paper you’re grading and see a student repeatedly looking at another student’s exam. When your eyes meet his, he appears nervous. What should you do next?
January 7 - Cheating: A Legal Primer Toolkit for Faculty & Administrators
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Mitigating cheating is no easy task. Students have easy access to cheating technologies, while confusing policies and legal issues make enforcement difficult. This seminar will show you how to develop a simple, cohesive legal strategy that not only encourages academic integrity, but also makes it clear how to handle cheating if it occurs.
November 1 - Academic Dishonesty: How to Mitigate Student Cheating
By: Mary Bart in Trends in Higher Education
As an accreditation evaluator for the Northwest Commission of Colleges and Universities (NWCCU), Scott L. Howell, PhD goes out a couple of times each year to review the testing practices and assessment characteristics of higher education institutions that are under the NWCCU’s purview.
September 29 - Are You Committing Plagiarism? Top Five Overlooked Citations to Add to Your Course Materials
By: Miki Crawford, PhD in Instructional Design
Although we strive to uphold academic integrity, we may unknowingly be committing plagiarism. As we know (and tell our students) plagiarism is copying from a source verbatim, but it is even more than that. According to Reference.com, “plagiarism is the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one’s own original work.”
September 9 - The New (and Old) Ways Students Cheat: What You Can Do About It
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Now more than ever, educators are faced with a formidable challenge to ensure academic integrity. This seminar will enhance your understanding and awareness of the issues surrounding this important issue and suggest solutions to help mitigate cheating.
July 21 - Four Pillars of Online Course Quality
By: Mary Bart in Distance Learning Administration
The rapid growth of online education, coupled with instances of lax academic integrity and cases involving questionable instructional quality, has put the entire industry under the microscope. As a result, today’s distance education programs are looking to not only prove the quality of their programs, but improve them as well.
June 2 - Reasons You Could be Disciplined, Fired, or Sued
By: Mary Bart in Faculty Development
A parent calls you to ask how her son is doing in your class. Her son, a first-year student, began the semester well but recently started missing class and turning in assignments late. The mother says she’s worried about him and wants to know if he’s showing up for class, how his grades are, and if he will pass your class.
May 7 - Promoting Academic Integrity in Online Education
By: Mary Bart in Free Reports, Online Education
Online education didn’t invent cheating, but it does present unique challenges. This 20-page report provides proactive ways for meeting these challenges head on.
