CLIPP Board

Text matching and Turnitin

Widely accepted rationale behind the use of Turnitin or other text matching tools should be adopted as a holistic strategy across HE.

URLs of information sources:

• Plagiarism software can be beaten by simple tech tricks (Times Higher 2011)
• Turnitin for Admissions, new service announced in a recent ZDNET article : Plagiarism remains rampant: Turnitin for Admissions announces new partnership
• How effective are electronic plagiarism detection systems and does it matter how you use them? Reviewing the evidence (Badge, 2010)
• A comprehensive PDF which looks at the whole issue of plagiarism in academic settings. (Carroll, Appleton, 2001)
• Jude Carroll on plagiarism – 10 minute video (2006 conference)
• An investigation into the use of Turnitin in UK HE institutions… (Martin King, 2010)
  Turnitin: Student Access to Originality Reports by Martin King is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
  Based on a work at rhul-lt.blogspot.com.

OER & Copyright

CC cleared image : attribution: not quite clear on the concept

The above image was sourced using the FLICKRCC image search engine. This effectively allows you to quickly locate and use (under Creative Commons) images shared by the FLICKR photo sharing network.

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During a recent OER  SCORE workshop organised by the OU we learned more about their strategic plans to create Open Education Resources (OER) suitable for repurposing.  An annual budget of approximately 80 mi££ion for their online learning resources, provides a focus for continual rationalisation. Their Open Learn and LabSpace initiatives continue to be refined and updated, and provide a rich source of learning objects open to all. Whilst not quite on the scale of the ground breaking MIT OpenCourseWare program, the OU continues to pave the way for the rest of UK HE to emulate. Here at Aston University we are working on an OER project called “Open For Business” lead by Oxford Brookes University, who have developed the impressvie RADAR repository.

The long running HEFCE-JISC funded OER programme enters its second phase with many Learning Objects (LOs) being placed into Open JORUM .  Another project gaining wider use is the innovative HUMBOX repository aimed at primarily humanities disciplines. This recent JISC OER webinar is worth a look to find out more about current projects. While the  launch of the JISC Infonet Infokit covering OER should be your one stop shop to learn all about this area of creating, sharing and repurposing LOs. Whilst the JISC/HEFCE Web2Rights wiki compliments the Infokit by providing a wealth of articles and resources to help academia develop more shared learning resources within the confusing confines of copyright compliance.

During our day at the OU, Mrs Bernie Attwell (OU copyright expert) ran a session explaining the main areas of copyright compliance using a greeting card analogy. This workshop video by Bernie is the best explanation I have ever seen covering  the intricacies of copyright compliance.  The greetings card exercise can be accessed online, to run in your own workshops, to reinforce copyright guidance.

Optical Mark Readers

In the latest Best Practice Video CLIPP, Fiona Lacey describes how OMRs are used for effective and efficient assessment in LHS.

JISC Live

Conference presentations and resources, including all the Elluminate recordings, from Innovating e-Learning 2010, are now available on the JISC website for general viewing.

The JISC Online Conference, Innovating e-Learning 2010 ran from 23rd -26^th November and attracted  483 delegates numbers from around the world. The conference theme was ‘Bringing Innovation to Life: from adversity comes opportunity’ to reflect the challenges facing colleges and universities in sustaining innovation in the current climate. The presentations and Elluminate recordings of all the sessions are now available and include presentations from:

• Keri Facer, Professor of Education at Manchester Metropolitan University and Director of the CREATE centre – Learning to live in interesting times – what are educational institutions for?
• Graham Galbraith, Deputy Vice Chancellor and Jon Alltree, Director of Learning, University of Hertfordshire – Developing a culture of blended learning innovation
• David Boud, University of Technology, Sydney – Transforming assessment for learning in a digital age
• Aaron Porter (President) and Usman Ali (Vice President (HE)),  National Union of Students – What do students really want?
• Anne Miller, inventor, author and co-founder of The Technology Partnership – How to get your innovations adopted (and change the world.)
• Elliott Masie, internationally recognised futurist, analyst and researcher on workforce learning, business collaboration and emerging technologies and Head of the MASIE Centre – Shaping our learning futures

In addition, recordings of the Elluminate conference sessions covering  mobile learning;  Sustaining OER innovation through collaboration and partnership; sustaining innovation in curriculum delivery are also available