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

Monday, January 14, 2002

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Georgetown implements anti-cheating software
By Meredith McCloskey, The Hoya (Georgetown U.)

(U-WIRE) WASHINGTON -- Georgetown University has taken steps to halt plagiarism throughout the academic year with the implementation of new anti-cheating software from turnitin.com. The software was created in 1996 and is used globally, including all California State universities and many other institutions nationwide. The plagiarism prevention system identifies content taken from Internet sources, which enables a professor to distinguish quotes that may be cited incorrectly or not at all. ...

 



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