Type of Presentation
Individual paper/presentation
Conference Strand
Ethics in Information
Target Audience
Higher Education
Second Target Audience
Higher Education
Location
Session 4 Papers
Relevance
Plagiarism is a challenging topic to teach and learn. having students complete a self-paced, interactive tutorial helps provide a platform for discussion in class about how to understand and avoid plagiarism.
Proposal
During the Spring and Summer of 2021, Reference & Instruction Librarians collaborated with an Instructional Designer to create a university branded plagiarism tutorial. Utilizing open access/open educational resources provided a template, while being able to customize to the institution’s needs by incorporating elements from the university’s academic dishonesty policy.
The main goals were to have an interactive tutorial where concepts like patchwriting and paraphrasing are suitably explained and students have the opportunity to test their knowledge throughout. Additionally, having a final assessment/quiz to prove students completed the tutorial was important to faculty. The tutorial is housed on the libraries’ website, though future embedding in the university’s LMS with automatic grading is a future goal.
Many lessons were learned throughout this process, including developing relationships with various departments across campus, the value of faculty feedback, and learning about software and resources needed to develop and embed a tutorial.
Short Description
During the Spring and Summer of 2021, Reference & Instruction Librarians collaborated with an Instructional Designer to create a university branded, interactive plagiarism tutorial.
Keywords
plagiarism, instructional design, tutorials
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
McMillan, Lauren, "Painless Plagiarism: Collaboration to Develop an Interdisciplinary Plagiarism Tutorial" (2022). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 45.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2022/2022/45
Painless Plagiarism: Collaboration to Develop an Interdisciplinary Plagiarism Tutorial
Session 4 Papers
During the Spring and Summer of 2021, Reference & Instruction Librarians collaborated with an Instructional Designer to create a university branded plagiarism tutorial. Utilizing open access/open educational resources provided a template, while being able to customize to the institution’s needs by incorporating elements from the university’s academic dishonesty policy.
The main goals were to have an interactive tutorial where concepts like patchwriting and paraphrasing are suitably explained and students have the opportunity to test their knowledge throughout. Additionally, having a final assessment/quiz to prove students completed the tutorial was important to faculty. The tutorial is housed on the libraries’ website, though future embedding in the university’s LMS with automatic grading is a future goal.
Many lessons were learned throughout this process, including developing relationships with various departments across campus, the value of faculty feedback, and learning about software and resources needed to develop and embed a tutorial.
