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At What Cost?
Peter Luscombe's classroom is a dying breed: a technology-free zone. No iPods, no cell phones, no Internet -- just a bunch of students, a teacher and books. "I tell them they can use the book, their brain, and nothing else," Luscombe, an English teacher of 22 years, says in the teacher's lounge at Lucas secondary school in London, Ont.. Not so in Joy Hunter's classroom, where Grade 12 English students are sitting in a computer lab, looking for videos online to go with a novel they're re
Beat The Cheat
The pace of research has accelerated, fuelled by the ready availability of material in electronic format. But there is a downside, with a minority of students and researchers passing off others' work as their own. Plagiarism ranges from cheating at undergraduate level to high-profile fraud in the research world. Publishers are taking steps to address the problem, with plagiarism detection software complementing the traditional editorial process, and are keen to cite this as part of the added va
Choose Your Weapon
Technological development drives how people learn, with today's trailblazer tomorrow's mainstay. What are the newest ICT tools? Lucky students at Leicester University not only develop their learning through a virtual learning environment (VLE); they can also sample open-source collaborative websites like Twitter, del.i.cious, Flickr and Twine. These enable, respectively, users to share personal information, recommendations for weblinks, pictures and discussion threads. "Fi
Computer Program Helps Unis Catch 1300 Cheating Students
Hundreds of WA university students have been caught cheating in exams and plagiarising course work. More than 1300 students have been nabbed trying to pass off other people's work as their own since January 2006, documents obtained under Freedom of Information laws show. Academics say it is impossible to know how many other students may be cheating on assignments - ghost-written ones were the hardest to detect. Penalties for plagiarism can include suspension, loss of mark
Criminal Justice Students Take Top Honors At Statewide Competition
Five Marshall University Criminal Justice students who took part in the West Virginia Criminal Justice Educators Association's recent annual conference placed second in the statewide crime scene competition. The students included undergraduates Michelle Cunningham, Patrick Hernandez and William "Andy" Walker, and graduate students Lauren Copley and Pallavi Samariya. In addition, Marshall University Criminal Justice majors won two of the four awards for the student paper competition. Cople
Do Ghostwriters Help Students Cheat?
It's disappointing to read Caron Dann's article for the Times Higher Education supplement (below) condemning writers who ghostwrite for essay sites. There are many ways of cheating on your coursework. Copying from books, journals, and from the internet is one of the most prolific ways - more prolific than using essay writing websites. By Caron's reasoning, we should all stop writing books and journals and stop creating internet sites. You see the problem with this line of reasoning is, i
Media Star Under Scrutiny Over Radio Nz Broadcasts
Noelle McCarthy's opinions are everywhere, but are they all hers? Kim Knight reports. RADIO NEW Zealand is reviewing broadcasts by presenter and commentator Noelle McCarthy, after concerns were raised about alleged unattributed use of other journalists' work. Media experts have called the similarity between three McCarthy essays and articles from overseas newspapers "compelling" and "disconcerting". The similarities were discovered by the Sunday Star-Times, when it Googled transcripts
Ona Criminal Justice Student Takes Top Honors At Statewide Competition
Copyright 2008 Independent News Auckland Ltd. All Rights Reserved Five Marshall University Criminal Justice students who took part in the West Virginia Criminal Justice Educators Association's recent annual conference placed second in the statewide crime scene competition. The students included undergraduates Michelle Cunningham, Patrick Hernandez and William "Andy" Walker, and graduate students Lauren Copley and Pallavi Samariya. In addition, Marshall University Criminal Justice majors wo