New study criticizes Turn-It-In.

Researcher claims that clumsy writing can come across as plagiarism.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/07/14/turnitin-faces-new-questions-about-efficacy-plagiarism-detection-software

http://turnitin.com/

Is this an issue that concerns you?  Then sign up for my webinar on July 23:

Cheating and Plagiarism in the New Age of Texting, Tweeting, Googling and Mash-Ups: Guidance for How to Respond to This Pervasive Higher Education Problem

Best For: Higher Education
Date/Time: 7/23/2015, 1 PM Eastern
Duration: Scheduled for 90 minutes including question and answer session.
Presenter(s): James Ottavio Castagnera, Ph.D. and Attorney at Law
Price: $299.00 webinar, $349.00 CD, $399.00 webinar + CD. Each option may be viewed by an unlimited number of attendees in one room using one unique login. CD includes full audio presentation, question and answer session and presentation slides.
Who Should Attend? Administrators, faculty, staff, higher education counsel

The sub-culture of cheating remains the most pervasive problem confronting institutions of higher learning today. A 2012 survey of 23,000 students revealed that 51% of college students admitted cheating on an exam and/or other assessment one or more times during the preceding academic year. Common methods of cheating included:

• Downloading papers from the Internet
• Using a smart phone to browse the web during a test
• Texting answers back and forth
• Saving notes on a phone for use during a test
• Photographing test papers for posting on line
• Hiring a surrogate to take an online test
• Cutting and pasting materials from websites

Today’s smart phone savvy students mistakenly believe the “if your smart phone lets you do it, it must be all right.” Such practices threaten the academic integrity on which our education system is based, and represent infractions which colleges and universities are continuously battling to control. A strong defense, however, begins with strong policies and techniques for preventing and detecting plagiarism and cheating, as well as a program for covering due-process requirements for investigating, adjudicating, and sanctioning violations of academic integrity. At the same time effective enforcement must be balanced with risk management and litigation avoidance. Responding to a charge of cheating or plagiarism can be difficult, but getting it wrong can not only impact a student’s rights, but also result in possible lawsuit for the institution. Please join Dr. Jim Castagnera, managing director of K&C HR Enterprises and legal counsel at Rider University. Dr. Castagnera is highly experienced in issues of academic integrity, being the long-time chair of Rider’s Academic Integrity Committee as well as the school’s responsible official for research integrity. He will offer guidance for making sure that your academic integrity policies and practices are up to today’s challenges.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

Just a sampling of what this webinar will cover:

• The most popular methods used by cheaters
• How to detect and how to prevent violations
• Best practices and policies in the realm of academic integrity
• Due process requirements for investigation, adjudication and sanctioning of violations
• The latest lawsuits involving Academic Integrity issues and how to prevent them at your university
• AND MUCH MORE!

YOUR CONFERENCE LEADER

Your conference leader for “Cheating and Plagiarism in the New Age of Texting, Tweeting, Googling and Mash-Ups: Guidance for How to Respond to This Pervasive Higher Education Problem” is Dr. James Castagnera. Dr. Castagnera holds a law degree and a Ph.D. in American studies from Case Western Reserve University. Jim brings nearly three decades of experience in higher education to this webinar. Prior to law school he served Case Western Reserve as director of university communication. He went on to teach at the University of Texas-Austin, the Widener University Law School, and the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton Business School. Currently, and for nearly the past 18 years, he has been Rider University’s associate provost and legal counsel. His diverse duties include risk management, regulatory matters, faculty and student disciplinary cases, litigation management, governance and institutional policies.
He is the author of 18 books, including the Handbook for Student Law for Higher Education Administrators (Peter Lang, 2010, revised edition 2014), which is available at Your text to link… and Counter Terrorism Issues (CRC Press 2013).
His teaching experience includes continuing legal education courses, webinars and presentations at numerous national forums, including the Annual Conference of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Annual Homeland Defense and Security Higher Education Summit sponsored by the Naval Postgraduate School.

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