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

Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Internet plagiarism has increased among students: Hi-tech answer to student cheats - BBC

New measures to help detect cheating students are being demonstrated at a conference in Newcastle. A survey of around 350 undergraduates found nearly 25% had copied text from another source at least once. A new service that can scan 4.5 billion web pages is now online so that lecturers can check the originality of the work submitted by students. The software is being demonstrated at a meeting of the Plagiarism Advisory Service at Northumbria University.

 



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