Insights from an expert in academic integrity, computer science and higher education
Insights from an expert in academic integrity, computer science and higher education
One of the biggest challenges I’ve had recently is condensing some of the research highlights behind contract cheating into a talk timed to last just 10 minutes, for Birmingham City University’s RESCON conference. The slides, also available on SlideShare account for Thomas Lancaster, are the result. This talk looked particularly at the pricing of essays, …
Contract cheating still poses a threat within the Computing discipline, although our observations are that this has expanded widely into other academic disciplines, particularly Business Studies, and including at MBA level. These slides are from a recent research seminar delivered at University of West London, and contain new examples relating to the costs associated with …
Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today called Crazylarry23 “the stupid plagiarist”. Mark Graban of Lean Blog seemed surprised that an example of postgraduate level cheating was up on Freelancer.com. He also acknowledged Michel Baudin for originally publicising this attempt at contract cheating, although that blog post no longer seems to be active. As an academic, who …
For academics, this request seems like a very reasonable price to pay to get someone else to get someone else to prepare a set of “good enough” slides for you. I had this example planned as a slide for one of my own research presentations, but with that presentation at 60 slides at present, this …
When I was putting this contract cheating research seminar together, I was reminded just what a volume of slides, talks and interesting anecdotes we had. Far more than can fit in every one hour session (with questions), which invariably means leaving some very interesting material out. This time, we focused particularly on the issues that …