Dear Colleague,
Netskills will be running their popular new workshop 'Detecting and Deterring Plagiarism: The Web: Hindrance or Help?' at Edinburgh's Telford College (RSC Scotland N&E) on Friday 14th May, 2004.
The cost of the workshop is £ 65 for participants from UK higher and further education. Other participants should contact Netskills for the relevant fees. For more information about Netskills workshops, including online booking forms, look at the Netskills event pages on the World Wide Web at:
http://www.netskills.ac.uk/workshops/
Please note that this workshop can also count towards a Netskills BTEC Professional Development Certificate (PDC). For further details of the programmes and registration details, please see our accreditation pages at: http://www.netskills.ac.uk/accreditation/.
Workshop Description
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The issue of plagiarism has been around for centuries, but its impact has escalated with the growth of the world wide web, with its vast range of content, easy opportunities for cut-and-paste, and growing market of commercial sites helping the potential plagiarist. The education sector has seen a significant increase in cases of plagiarism in recent years, with observers suspecting that many more cases go undetected and/or unreported.
While sophisticated online services can help with the detection of web-based plagiarism, long-term deterrence lies with appropriate course design and effective institutional policies.
This practical workshop, in association with the JISC Plagiarism Advisory Service, explores web-based and other methods of detecting and deterring plagiarism, and is aimed in particular at teaching, administrative and library staff in further and higher education institutions who wish to find out more about this complex and controversial subject and how to deal with it.
Workshop Content:
The workshop will comprise presentations, demonstrations and hands-on sessions with opportunities for questions and discussion. Participants will each receive a workbook which contains workshop exercises, presentation slides and other relevant materials.
Topics covered will include:
* Definition and examples of plagiarism
* The impact of the web on plagiarism, including essay banks and
bespoke services
* Different methods of web-based detection
* Designing out opportunities for plagiarism and collusion in teaching
and learning
* Policies and sanctions to deal with plagiarism
By the end of the workshop participants will have:
* Understood what is meant by plagiarism and how and why it may occur
* Viewed and discussed examples of plagiarism
* Seen how the web facilitates plagiarism
* Gained experience of using the JISC Plagiarism Detection Service
* Explored other forms of online detection
* Used scenarios to explore pedagogic and administrative approaches to
deterring plagiarism
* Shared experiences and views with other trainees
Workshop Requirements:
Participants need no special technical skills; however, it is expected that they will have some understanding and/or experience of teaching and learning in further or higher education and will be familiar with using the Internet. For the hands-on sessions they will find it helpful to have had some experience of using a browser and Microsoft Windows.
Regards,
Steve Boneham,
Netskills
Tel: (0191) 2225000
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