Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois Springfield

Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Saturday, November 10, 2001

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Columbia U. declines plagiarism-catching technology
By Xan Nowakowski, Columbia Daily Spectator (Columbia U.)

(U-WIRE) NEW YORK -- While a committee of students and administrators is in the process of reviewing the procedures that Columbia University use for academic infractions, other institutions across the country have been using the Internet to combat plagiarism. Since 1996, schools such as Duke University and Swarthmore College have been using turnitin.com to scan students' papers for direct quoting or paraphrasing from Internet sites and its own logfile of submitted papers....

 



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