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Turnitin Bibliography

Turnitin is a system that copies students' essays (without their permission) and then compares them to submitted work, this all to combat plagiarism. This weblog post is a comprehensive resource on the topic, listing a number of the author's own posts in addition to numerous external resources. Good stuff. See also this post on using Turnitin. Charles P. Nelson, Explorations in Learning, July 9, 2007. [Link] [Tags: , ] [Previous][Next]

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Re: Turnitin Bibliography

, July 11, 2007

I don't believe that in the UK work is copied without a student's permission. The UK has a unique approach to Turnitin. We have a national agreement and license with iParadigms and as such there is a standard agreement that students are given prior to them submitting their own work to TurnitinUK. This document explicitly states: "iParadigms has no interest in acquiring the intellectual property rights for the content
submitted. The copyright for such content will continue to reside with either the author or the institution; whichever is currently the case.
The service will help to protect the work from future plagiarism and thereby help maintain the integrity of any qualifications you award." [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

Re: Turnitin Bibliography

Stephen Downes, July 11, 2007

If the students are required by the schools system to submit their work, then it doesn't really matter what the agreement says (in my view) since it was extracted under duress.

Moreover, the complaint is not that the company is acquiring the rights to the papers, but rather, that the company is using the papers without (freely) being granted permission to do so. [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

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