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

Friday, January 11, 2002

http://education.guardian.co.uk/elearning/story/0,10577,629487,00.html

The virtual battleground - How universities are tackling academic plagiarism on the internet

The internet promised a revolution in distance learning, bringing higher education to the masses; so why has it become a battleground over the evil of academic plagiarism? As the websites selling fake degrees and pre-written essays proliferate, so universities are increasingly paying for online anti-plagiarism services to expose the cheats on degree courses. The internet, like any technological development that preceded it, can be utilised for good or ill....

 



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