A note from the IP Watch service indicates that Poland’s parliament is considering a bill to require that higher education institutions use plagiarism detection software in theses. Lire la suite

Happening right now is the 6th International Integrity & Plagiarism Conference in the UK. For a summary of day 1, go to PlagiarismToday.com for a summary of the first day. Lire la suite

Two resources of interest on apps for kids: – this great article from MindShift: Apps That Rise to the Top: Tested and Approved By Teachers (this is a radio station in California that has an education K-12 blog) – Also, see the Edululu website, from the great people at TFO, the French-language public broadcaster in […] Lire la suite

I’ve recently watched a great video about paraphrasing from the Lehman College’s Leonard Lief Library, located via Sheila Webber: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6T2lZ51iFI&w=560&h=315] Another colleague of mine has been trying to create their own plagiarism / citation videos in French using simple tools, like a voice over of a presentation. The videos are interesting but the sound […] Lire la suite

Tony Bates has just posted a call for comments on the first chapter of his open textbook about open education. (talk about putting your money where your mouth is!) Dr Bates has extensive experience in university teaching and administration – I’m really sorry I missed his talk at Concordia a few months ago (as a […] Lire la suite

Interesting, this list of top 20 articles compiled by the Library Instruction Round Table, see page 6 of their latest newsletter. This one seems of particular interest: Stowe, B. (2013). Designing and implementing an information literacy instruction outcomes assessment program. College & Undergraduate Libraries, 20(3-4), 242–276. This case study describes and analyzes the efforts of […] Lire la suite

This just came out : the latest “Tips and Trends” report from the Instructional Technologies Committee members of the American College and Research Libraries and the American Library Association. Tips and Trends, written by Instructional Technologies Committee members, introduces and discusses new, emerging, or even familiar technology which can be applied in the library instruction setting. […] Lire la suite

Here is an interesting twist on the old academic integrity issue : a web-game where Goblins are eliminated when you correctly answer questions about plagiarism. Lire la suite

Two interesting posts zipped in front of my eyes during my regular update: (1) this presentation deposited in e-lis about the information literacy tutorial developed at the University of Ottawa: Library Research Basics: The Evolution of an Online Information Literacy Tutorial Hemingway, Ann and Dekker, Jennifer and Bail, Cynthia and Pinet, Richard and Rockeby, Steve […] Lire la suite

It seems that UK institutions have pulled together to create a common MOOC platform called FutureLearn. Lire la suite