At 12:42 +0000 1/2/07, Julian Beckton wrote:
>Well, the final decision is really up to the individual member of staff
>here at Lincoln. We don't have a formal policy as such. But most of the
>staff who are using Turnitin on a regular basis seem to see it as a
>useful tool for teaching students about plagiarism, rather than a method
>of "catching them at it" and in order to do that the students really
>need to see the originality report. The practice is for the students to
>submit a formative assignment and the tutor to discuss the implications
>of a high scoring match with the student concerned should this occur.


I find this quite an intriguing use of Turnitin and in itself a nice 
hook to hold a discussion on the issues of plagiarism with students. 
Are they surprised about how much information is already held in the 
Turnitin system?

Can I just give another plug for the plagiarism event on March 23rd - 
'Beyond the Search Engine' . There are some real international 
experts on this area coming to Oxford to discuss and debate the 
issues.

The full programme and booking details available now at this URL:
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/beyond2007/programme.xml

There will be talks from -

Donald L. McCabe, Professor of Management and Global Business at 
Rutgers University. Over the last fifteen years he has done extensive 
research on college cheating, surveying over 135,000 students at more 
than 140 colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada.

Andrew Charlesworth, Senior Research Fellow, and Director of the 
Centre for IT and Law (CITL) at the University of Bristol since 2002.

Peter Taylor, Operations Director of Acumen PI, the UK's biggest 
online provider of coursework to students, and parent company of 
Coursework.info.

Dr. John Barrie, created the original architecture and fundamental 
technology behind iThenticate and Turnitin in 1994.

Dr Sara de Freitas currently works as a Senior Research Fellow at the 
London Knowledge Lab, University of London.

Kevin Donovan, Learning and Teaching consultant.
Jude Carroll, Plagiarism expert at Oxford Brookes University
-- 
Peter Robinson
Learning Technologies Group,
Oxford University Computing Services,
13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN.

E-learning Conferences. Book online
Shock of the Old 6, March 22nd  - 
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/shock2007/
Beyond the Search Engine, March 23rd - 
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/events/beyond2007/

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