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Emerging Educational Practices for MoreOriginal Writing

June 30 2008

Robyne Lovelock, ALDIS Associates P\L

Turnitin was founded and is run by educators committed to

academic ethics

ALDIS Associates represents iParadigms in the Asia Pacific Region

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Today’s session

• Introduction to Turnitin• Current situation of cheating and plagiarism

around the world• The growth of web usage and the Turnitin

service• CURRENT Digital Assessment Suite modules• NEW developments – beta release• Support • Additional examples of Originality Reports

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“How Education Works”

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How It All Started

“The World Wide Web as an Instructional Tool”

By John M. Barrie and David E. Presti

Science • Vol.274 • 18 OCTOBER 1996

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But a Big Question Remained

“For the future, we will need to address questions

such as how issues surrounding intellectual property and academic

honesty are to be resolved.”

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Corruption in Education Is Growing Worldwide, Unesco Reports

http://www.unesco.org/iiep/PDF/pubs/synth_ethics.pdf?class=IIEP_PDF_pubs&page=Corrupt%20schools,%20corrupt%20universities&estat_url=http://www.unesco.org/iiep/PDF/pubs/

synth_ethics.pdf

• Corruption is endemic in many education systems around the world, undermining them and costing governments billions of dollars, according to a new report from Unesco, the United Nations' education-and-science agency.

• The report, "Corrupt Schools, Corrupt Universities: What Can Be Done?," presents the results of a research project on ethics and corruption in education that the International Institute for Educational Planning, a Unesco body, has conducted since 2001.

• National education systems in the developing world are especially vulnerable to pervasive corruption, the report's authors, Jacques Hallak and Muriel Poisson, say, but widespread ethics violations are by no means confined to those regions. In parts of the world, the report said, such as in some universities in the former Soviet Union, "admission to universities is entirely corrupt.“

By AISHA LABI, Paris Chronicle of Higher Education - USA

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“Academic High Treason”

The practice of plagiarism is a form of academic high treason because it undermines the entire scholarly enterprise. How else do professors decide between a good and a bad student, evaluate a candidate for an academic position, or grant promotion to a fellow faculty member, if not on the basis of the belief that their written work is actually their own work?

ACADEMIC PLAGIARISM DEFINEDBy

Professor Irving HexhamDepartment of Religious Studies

University of Calgary Published on Sunday, August 26, 2007

http://www.distance-educator.com/dnews/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=15562

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“ACADEMIC PLAGIARISM DEFINED”

Therefore, plagiarism must be prevented at all levels of academic life from student papers to academic books. Nevertheless, care must be taken whenever one suspects a writer of plagiarism. It cannot be stressed enough that everyone makes a few mistakes and that genuine cases of similar use may occur.

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“ACADEMIC PLAGIARISM DEFINED”

Consequently, what must be identified

are patterns of behavior, repetitive

practices, and clear indications of an

attempt to deceive.

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Worldwide Usage

The largest online academic community in the world

Turnitin has > 8,400 institutional clients, in over 106 countries.

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10,000x Web Growth Since 1996

• In 1996, the entire Web was ~ 200 GB

• As of Jan. 2005, the web was 11.5 billion pages

• Today, 2000 terabytes (2 petabytes) and growing

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Turnitin Added >5 Billion More Pages & Documents Over 2 Years

In January 2006, Turnitin contained …

• 6.3 billion web pages (including archives)

• 20.9 million student papers

• 2.6 million ProQuest documents – many were image-only and not searchable text

and as of June 2008 …

• 11.4 billion pages web content

• 60 million student papers

• 55 million pages of Gale Info Trac

• 3.62 million documents from CrossRef so far incl. Elsevier

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Key Turnitin Metrics

• >60 million student papers expected to grow to 170 million by 2009

• 130,000 new papers daily

• Twice the number of instructors since 2006

• 6 major CMS integrations

• 106 countries

• Full support for 30 languages coming later this summer

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Beyond Just Checking Originality

Paper Workload 100% Digital Workflow

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6 Pillars of ISTE’s NETSInternational Society for Technology in Education (http://www.iste.org)

• Digital Citizenship

• Creativity and Innovation

• Communication and Collaboration

• Research and Information Fluency

• Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and Decision Making

• Technology Operations and Concepts

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Technology Reduces Plagiarism

82% reduction in similarity indexes (%) in institutions with more than 5 years of use

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Ensuring a classroom free ofe-plagiarism

an overview of the Turnitin system and its value as an assessment and

educative tool

Turnitin helps to -

◘ eliminate misuse of the Internet and online sources during research

◘ minimise its potentially negative impact on the development of quality reading, writing and research skills

◘ encourage exploration possibilities which the Internet offers for collaborative learning

◘ record the complete digital assessment of student work

◘ track students’ progress and assess their performance over time

◘ scrutinise the ever-expanding prime content sourced by students on the World Wide Web and other online resources.

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Turnitin modules –

Turnitin addresses every aspect

in the lifecycle of a student paper:

Turnitin is an online plagiarism prevention systemPLUS a complete web-basedclass management solutionwith its Digital Assessment Suite

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Turnitin’s Digital Assessment Suite comprises –

Peer Review

GradeBook

GradeMark

Plagiarism Prevention

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The Plagiarism Prevention module enhances Teaching

• Deters plagiarism before it happens

• Saves time in the investigation of the originality of student

work

• Allows for efficient citation verification

• Provides documentation of any alleged plagiarism

• Provides resources to assist in teaching, research, and writing skills including proper citation

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How detection software works

As a solution to the growing problem of cut-and-paste plagiarism. ……….

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An original paper is as unique as a fingerprint

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Plagiarism is defined as "the taking and passing off the thoughts, writings, etc, of other people as your own" . In short, it is intellectual theft. In academe, the consequences of plagiarism are clear: Using someone else's words or ideas without attribution is grounds for failed assignments, suspension, or expulsion. For some students, however, breaking the rules seems to be an irresistible challenge. And so the game goes: Students continually look for (and find) ways to cheat, and teachers remain on the alert for purloined paragraphs, pages, and even entire papers.Plagiarised work used to be generated through frat house recycling efforts, purchased from local ghost writers, or simply copied from campus library reference materials—all clumsy efforts readily detectable by educators familiar with their course material. But the World Wide Web and other electronic resources have changed the game and left educators scrambling to keep abreast of plagiarists' new methods. There are many reasons students plagiarise. Sometimes deadlines come around more quickly than expected, sometimes assignments are just to overwhelming, and sometimes the boundaries of plagiarism and research are not known and can be confusing. Learning to identify the factors that make plagiarism an attractive alternative is the best way to stop it before it starts. (www.turnitin.com)It is an unfortunate fact of life for University lecturers that the pressures on students leads some of them to copy other students' assignments or at least to obtain more assistance from their friends than is appropriate. Apart from discrediting the use of assignments for assessment, the copying of assignments also vitiates the assignments' educational aims. The typical institutional response is to require that assignments only form a small part of a student's assessment. However, such a response is inappropriate because it either results in trivial assignments or in assignments which do not adequately repay students in marks for the effort that they have invested. Even though plagiarism in a world wide problem, each institutions handles the seriousness in their own way. University of Virginia has a No Tolerance’ policy. In other words if you are caught plagiarising or cheating you are expelled. In Australia, Universities are trailing and purchasing software from a company called Turnitin.com (formerly know as Plagiarism.org). This software uses digital thumbprints to find similar or exact text on the internet and in their database which consists of over 1,000,000 million essays.In conclusion, Academic degrees represent a college's public certification that a former student possesses at least some minimum amount of knowledge and intellectual skill. Such degrees are commonly used a minimum credential for being hired to fill a professional position, not only physicians, attorneys, engineers, scientists, teachers, but also managers. If academic degrees are to have any meaningful significance, then they must not be awarded to students who plagiarize material, cheat on examinations, commit fraud in reporting research results, and other kinds of serious misconduct. Plagiarizing, cheating, or fraud must not be an alternate route to a diploma. When a diligent student who writes an original paper gets a lower grade than a plagiarist, the instructor effectively punishes the honest student and rewards the wrongdoer.

It is time that colleges took an active stand against plagiarism. Professors should actively check for plagiarism. When possible plagiarism is detected, professors should report the case to the appropriate authorities on campus for investigation, hearing, and resolution.

Take a paper and Turn it in !

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Digital Receipt of Paper submission

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Originality Report

Overall Similarity IndexOverall Similarity Index% Matched Text found% Matched Text found

BLUE (1) indicates that there are <0% BLUE (1) indicates that there are <0% matchesmatches

GREEN (2) 1%-25%GREEN (2) 1%-25%

YELLOW (3) 26%-50%YELLOW (3) 26%-50%

ORANGE (4) 51%-75%ORANGE (4) 51%-75%

RED (5) 76%-100%RED (5) 76%-100%

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Sample Originality Report

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Match to an ‘outside’ paperSend request to other Instructor requesting to view the matching

paper

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e-mail request is sent to the outside lecturer

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Outside lecturer’s response

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Another sample essay

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exclude a Source

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GradeMark

• Ability to edit and grade papers online

• Standardized “Quickmark” typographical marks

• Customizable rubrics

• Targeted rubric tracking

• Integrates with the other Turnitin products

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Peer Review

• Collaborative learning environment

• Unlimited assignment customization

• Pre-written review assignments

• Flexible distribution options

• Integrates with the other Turnitin products

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GradeBook• Customisable grading system

• Scaling tools

• Advanced preferences

• Attendance tracking

• Exports to Excel

• Integrated with Turnitin’s other products

• Digital Graphs

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Class - GradeBook

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Turnitin Revision Assignments – an educational tool

Provides a teaching\educational moment

Have the students submit their own essays to the Revision Assignment\s and have the document come back to the student with notations of anything problematic."

"Problematic" can mean anything from citing a quote to needing a footnote.

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Use of Originality Reports

About 25% of all instructors leverage the originality reports as an instructional tool

Allow Student Use of O.R.Allow Student Use of O.R.

3Xincrease

Active Instructorsin 2008

Active Instructorsin 2006

Allow Student Use of O.R.

Allow Student Use of O.R.

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Revision assignments

• Allows an enrolled student to submit papers multiple times to the assignment, up until the Due Date

• Each time they submit a paper the previous submission is overwritten and not stored in the database

• Each submission made by the student has the same Paper Id and only the last submission is stored in the database

• Various functionality options (submissions not stored in the database; only search the internet; students review Originality Reports etc.)

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Use of Peer Reviews

Instructor use of Peer Reviews has grown 1.5 X

Engaging in Peer ReviewsEngaging in Peer Reviews

1.5 Xincrease

Active Instructorsin 2008

Active Instructorsin 2006

Engaging in Peer Reviews

Engaging in Peer Reviews

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Use of Digital Grading

Instructor use of digital grading has grown >3x

Use of Digital GradingUse of Digital Grading

>3xincrease

Active Instructorsin 2008

Active Instructorsin 2006

Use of Digital Grading

Use of Digital Grading

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Copy of Internet

Books, Journals, Newspapers (e.g. Gale, Emerald)

Student Papers or Client Node

Extract matching documents

Manuscript or article submitted to

iParadigms

Computer transforms manuscript into a digital fingerprint

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Searching the Entire Document

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TODAY - submissions are compared to:

• A current and archived copy of the publicly accessible Internet (more than 8 billion pages indexed)

• Millions of published works from Gale InfoTrac OneFile and the Emerald database, newspapers, full text academic journals and e-books

• Millions (approx. 50m) of student papers that have been submitted to Turnitin since 1996

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Tomorrow - New Content(CrossRef’s CrossCheck)

• 20 million journal articles already!

Association for Computing Machinery, American Society of Neuroradiology, BMJ Publishing Group, Elsevier, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, International Union of Crystallography, Nature Publishing Group, Oxford University Press, Sage, Informa UK (Taylor & Francis),Wiley Blackwell.

• Publisher participation will grow quickly.

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“Scholarly Publishers Sign On to Plagiarism-Detection Service”

http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3124/scholarly-publishers-sign-on-to-plagiarism-detection-service

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Every essay must be judged on its merits

There are:

• the plagiarists who want to succeed at any cost

• the students who have never been shown how to correctly reference material – need guidance

• there are the students whose essays need to be determined on a case by case basis

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New

DevelopmentsBeta release

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iParadigms 2008 Roadmap of Services – Public Dates Timing

1. Service Improvements for Speed, Reliability & Scalability

• High availability initiative for improved uptime Completed Apr 2008

• Content DB and server rebuilt for speed Completed Apr 2008

• Replaced domain ID DB with in-house solution Completed Apr 2008

• Triple redundancy for data center Completed Aug 2008

• ASN for rapid internat’l service implementations Oct 2008

2. WriteCycle™ Services for Managing Writing Workflows

• Improved interface and usability of work environment Beta now; US launch Aug

• Turnitin Originality Checking

-- More flexible storage options In testing – Available July

-- Exclusion of quoted and bibliographic material for entire assignment rather than paper-by-paper TBD

• GradeMark update Aug.1

-- Anonymous Marking Fall 2008

• Peer Review upgrade and enhancement Fall 2008

3. Turnitin Global

• Support for Originality Reports and Content Searches in 30 languages (incl Chinese (trad & simplified), Arabic, Japanese)

Aug. 1

• User interface ready for full translation via partners in 30 languages TBD

4. Content

• CrossRef publishers’ content including Elsevier, BMJ, IEEE – as they decide to participate Now – more coming

• Crawling of international content in 30 languages Starts Jun 30

• Major content clean up via mirror detection Now thru end of 2008

5. CMS Integrations

• Blackboard 8 and WebCT (in testing) Done – awaiting Svc Pack 5

• ANGEL, moodle, Capetown version of Sakai (version 2.5 coming), eCollege Now

•D2L On hold

• Integration Support Space to simplify and streamline integrations (online SDKs) Fall 2008

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New Interface

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New Interface

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New Grade Mark

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New Grade Mark

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New Integrations1st BECTA Plagiarism Integration 1st E-Portfolio & web 2.0 Integrtaion

StudyWiz PebblePAD

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New iThenticate

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Notifications

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New Peer Review - Planned

• User Interface Upgrade

• Assignment Creation Process Simplified

• Simplification of Paper Allocation

• September 2008

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New Language Support

• This summer

• Search and store 30 languages

• Search and store in theses languages

• Language based interfaces will follow– Chinese, Japanese, Korean

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Originality Report in Chinese

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New Anonymous Marking

• A set of requirements was received from the UK users group

• This on track for an Autumn release

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New iPhone Interface

• The new version of Turnitin will be available via iPhone

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Turnitin for Admissions

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Turnitin Global ProvidesSupport for 30 Languages

Arabic, Catalan, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch,

Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean,

Norwegian (Bokmal, Nynorsk), Farsi, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai,

Turkish

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Faculty – the InstructorsTeaching Benefits

• informs students and deters plagiarism before it occurs• saves time in investigation of originality of students’

work• allows for efficient citation verification• provides documentation of alleged plagiarism• provides resources to assist in teaching research and

writing skills, including proper citation• promotes a culture of academic honesty• provides a set of learning tools beyond checking for

plagiarism• monitors the integrity of assessment submission.

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Students – the Learners

Instructors report these benefits from using Turnitin:

• greater student attentiveness in classes• increased rate of draft submission (Revision

Assignments) by students• students gain from revision or correction of their

paper after viewing the Turnitin Originality Report• reduced discrepancies in assignment work versus

examination situations• increased student confidence in their ability to do

their own work.• an improvement in creativity and academic standards• protection of students’ intellectual property.

On-line Help

The Knowledge Base

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The Knowledge Base

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Statistics

Account Administrator

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Turnitin User SurveyAugust 2007

• 64% of respondents allow students to view Originality Reports

• 88% of respondents have students submit papers themselves

• 4% only submit papers they are suspicious about.

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Undergraduate student at a Malaysian university

• ….., I believe much needs to be done if we want our universities to be globally competitive. 

• Curb plagiarism, employ lecturers who are really qualified, give grants only to those capable of coming up with good research findings, practise meritocracy, do away with the Universities and University Colleges Act, which limits students’ freedom of expression – these are some of the measures we can look into. 

Malaysia Star – Sunday September 2, 2007 http://thestar.com.my/education/story.asp?file=/2007/9/2/education/18708114

The result of using detection tools………

Students will realise that they can no longer “borrow” intellectual materials without being at risk of being caught. They will submit their own work, and as a result, educational quality, student morale, and ethics will improve

Turnitin – “The Prime Goal… Prevention, not Punishment”

Student Privacy iParadigms has built its customer base on trust and a commitment

to protecting student work

• All papers submitted to Turnitin remain the property of their owners and the institution that submitted those papers. 

• iParadigms does not claim any rights on the papers• Documents submitted to Turnitin can be removed from

our servers at the request of your company's administrator. 

• Turnitin stores papers in a secure database or even in a separate database at the request of the institution.

• Only users with corresponding access permissions can see the papers and reports matched to the student profiles. 

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Familiarisation & Training

Go to the links on the Turnitin site at :

http://www.turnitin.com/static/training.html

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www.plagiarism.org - iParadigms

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Technology – word substitution

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Plagiarism Detection Software ReportJISC Plagiarism Advisory Service

Categories surveyed: Installation, configuration, stability of the product, databases searched, usability, upload options, output options, support, company background, company associations, accessibility, authentication, legal implications and privacy. Turnitin comes top in all .

Prepared by: Bryan Scaife, Commercial in Confidence IT Consultancy NCC Group plc, Manchester Technology Centre, Oxford Road, Manchester M1 7EF

http://www.jiscpas.ac.uk/documents/resources/PDReview-Reportv1_5.pdf

September 2007

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http://www.plagiarismconference.co.uk/index.php

3rd International Plagiarism Conference

"Transforming practice for an authentic future“

23 - 25 June 2008. City Campus East,Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-tyne, UK

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After 1998 students didn't need to begin essays with a blank screen

Plagiarism is endemic and fighting it is an industry. The plagiarist psychiatrist Raj Persaud, last week suspended from practising for three months by the General Medical Council, is nothing more than its most visible pimple. A few days after the GMC announced its sentence I went to a conference in Newcastle, the third International Plagiarism Conference, and heard Persaud's name mentioned only when I raised it. The conference lasted two days; 200 delegates, mainly academics, attended; we heard about the Plagiarism Advisory Service, the scholarly journal Plagiary, the online magazine Plagiarism Today, the utility and otherwise of the software programs used to detect plagiarism. In universities across the world there is a war going on and all kinds of people are making money from it. One delegate referred to it as an "arms race" that the students would win because they would always come up with superior tactics.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/28/highereducationIan Jack, The Guardian

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Turnitin has > 8,400 institutional clients, in over 106 countries.Asia Pacific: During the 2007-2008 academic year, the following institutions have subscribed to at least one of the available Turnitin licences

in Hong Kong – HIGHER EDUCATION The Hong Kong Baptist University, The University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, The City University of Hong Kong, The Chinese University of Hong KongSECONDARY Australian International School, Canadian International School, Chinese International School, Delia Group of Schools, German Swiss International School, Hong Kong International School, King George V, Renaissance College HK, South Island School, Li Po Chun UWC, Sha Tin College, West Island School, Yew Chung International School of Hong Kong.

in China - American International School, Concordia International School Shanghai, International School of Beijing, International School Tianjin, Nanjing International School, Qingdao MTI International School, Shanghai Community International Schools,Shanghai Singapore International School, Shanghai American School, Suzhou Singapore International School, Tianjin International School, Tsinghua University, Utahloy International School Guangzhou, Western Academy of Beijing, Yew Chung International School of Shanghai

In Singapore: there are 36 customers; 30 schools and 6 Higher Education institutions

in Australia HE - the Australian National University, Bond University, Charles Sturt University, Curtin University, Deakin University, Edith Cowan University, Griffith University, La Trobe University, Macquarie University, Monash University, Murdoch University, Queensland Southern Cross University, University of Technology, RMIT University, University of Adelaide, University of Ballarat, University of Canberra, University of Melbourne, University of Newcastle, University of New England, University of New South Wales, University of Queensland, University of South Australia, University of Sydney, University of Tasmania, University of Technology Sydney, University of Western Australia, University of Western Sydney, University of Wollongong, and Victoria University – plus 15 post secondary institutions – plus 90+ secondary schools.

in New Zealand HE: University of Auckland, Auckland University of Technology, Lincoln University, Manukau Institute of Technology, Massey University, AIS – St Helens, Christchurch Polytechnic, University of Canterbury, University of Waikato, University of Otago, UNITEC, The Victoria University of Wellington, and Whitireia Polytechnic – plus other post secondary institutions – total in NZ is 26.

In Australia and New Zealand there are 100+ secondary schools who have taken out licences, from Turnitin, some from as early as 1999

plus institutions in Indonesia and the Philippines and Papua New Guinea and Fiji and Guam and Macau,,,,,,, from the ALDIS sales region

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Support

• Personal contacts in Asia Pacific

• Turnitin User Group – meets 6 monthly

• Fast Track to Turnitin for enhancements suggestions (a

number have been implemented)

• Turnitin presence at Asia Pacific conferences

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HANDOUT

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Digital Assessment Solution

Handout – Digital Assessment Suite

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Questions ?

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Thank you !ALDIS Associates P\L Represents iParadigms, LLC (developers of Turnitin and iThenticate) in the

Pacific and East Asia regions

Robyne LovelockManaging DirectorALDIS Associates Pty. Ltd.PO Box 125, HAMPTON, Victoria, 3188 , Australia

ABN 55 085 807 816

e-mail: robyne@aldis.com.au robynelovelock@optusnet.com.au

Phone +613 9502 0347Fax +613 9502 0833web: http://www.aldis.com.au