Advice for universities on student plagiarism (JISC)

News release: 31 March 2011 Advice for universities on student plagiarism The Academic Integrity Service (AIS), managed by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) with JISC, has today published a report to enable higher education institutions to review and develop their … Continue reading

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Preventing student papers from being added to the Turnitin database

This post courtesy of Jill Fresen: When using the Assignments tool in WebLearn, the default behaviour is that student papers do get added to the Turnitin database; however, they are used only for comparison purposes and are not released or … Continue reading

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Sakai 2011 Conference Information

The Sakai Foundation is pleased to share the initial information and call for presentations for the Sakai 2011 conference in Los Angeles. All conference information will be added to www.sakaiproject.org/sakai-conference-2011 as it becomes available. The growth in projects, partners, adoption and … Continue reading

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WebLearn User Group Meeting: 9 March 2011

Come along to our face-to-face meeting of the WebLearn User Group at OUCS on Wednesday 9 March and join us afterwards for our traditional cream tea.  Users from the departments of History of Art and Earth Sciences will share with … Continue reading

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Upcoming Sakai Conferences

From Ian Dolphin: I am pleased to announce the venue, and confirm the date, for the Sakai North American Conference 2011. The conference will take place on the 14th, 15th and 16th of June, at the Westin Bonaventure, Los Angeles. … Continue reading

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Embed Oxford Podcasts in your site

We have developed a new tool (Oxford Podcasts) which now makes it very easy to embed items from the rapidly growing Oxford Podcasts collection into a WebLearn site. (The Oxford Podcasts website contains exactly the same material as Oxford’s iTunesU … Continue reading

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Time to Apply – Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award

The entry process is now open for the 2011 Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award (TWSIA). The application and supporting materials are available at http://openedpractices.org/twsia. The 2011 award seeks to expand the sharing of innovative teaching and collaboration practices to include: … Continue reading

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Sneeky Peek of Sakai Open Academic Environment (aka Sakai 3)

From the Sakai newsletter: NYU Launches Pre-Release Pilot of Sakai OAE/SAKAI 3 New York University is pleased to announce the launch on November 5,2010 of the first pre-release pilot of the Sakai Open Academic Environment (OAE) — a revolutionary platform … Continue reading

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The benefits of an Open Source VLE

Start Lee and Melissa Highton recently gave a virtual presentation to a conference in Malaysia via Skype. One of the things they spoke about is the benefits to Oxford of choosing an Open Source VLE. FutureGov Asia picked up on … Continue reading

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A Report Investigating the Effectiveness of the Turnitin Plagiarism Detection Service

A report has recently been released about the use of Turnitin in terms of its effectiveness. The White Paper “The Effectiveness of Turnitin and WriteCycle” (White Paper from turnitin.com, 2009) reports on the use of Turnitin worldwide in helping to … Continue reading

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