Plagiarism: providing strategies to address the issues

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Plagiarism providing strategies to address the
issues

• - a one-day workshop
• at EEF, Sheffield

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Plagiarism providing strategies to address the
issues - Welcome and Introduction

• Dr. Simon Steiner
• Academic Advisor

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Plagiarism providing strategies to address the
issues

• Aims
• To stimulate discussion of possible strategies
  for detecting and coping with the issues of
  plagiarism
• To provide a forum for hearing of the latest
  thinking on assessment of students work
• To discuss problems and issues as experienced by
  attendees
• To engage with, and learn from, exemplars from
  the excellent community of practice in addressing
  plagiarism

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Plagiarism providing strategies to address the
issues
Programme 10.30 11.00 Arrival and coffee
11.00 11.20 Welcome and introduction 11.20
12.30 Strategies in assessment 12.30
13.30 Lunch 13.30 14.00 The diversity of
plagiarism 14.00 14.40 Approaches to detecting
and coping with plagiarism 14.40 15.45 Case
examples in dealing with plagiarism 15.45
16.00 The future for plagiarism 16.00 Close
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Housekeeping

• Fire exits
• Refreshments
• Toilets
• Mobile Phones

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Engineering Subject Centre

• Created in January 2000 as part of the LTSN
• 24 subject centres

• Became part of the HE Academy in 2004
• Funded to 2009
• Broader remit

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What is EngSC?(formerly LTSN Engineering)
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What does the Engineering Subject Centre provide
to its community?

• The aims of the Centre are to provide
• Information, advice, support ..
• Networking, brokering, sharing ..
• Promoting good practice and innovation
• Development and recognition .
• Professional development
• Development of research in engineering pedagogy

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Information, advice, support ..

• on curriculum development, learning, teaching
  and student assessment.
• Website www.engsc.ac.uk
• key communications medium
• news and events
• activities and networks
• Resources www.engsc.ac.uk/er/resources/index.asp
  
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  reviews
• All freely available in our Resource Database
• Enquiries
• Contact us on issues in learning and teaching

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Networking, brokering, sharing ..

• UK Engineering HE Community www.engsc.ac.uk/an/c
  ontacts/index.asp
• 250 Departments in 100 HE Institutions
• professional bodies and networks
  www.engsc.ac.uk/an/engnetworks/index.asp
• Strong brokerage role between national bodies and
  engineering in HE (e.g. ECUK, EPC, Royal Academy
  of Engineering etc.)
• national/international networks (e.g. FDF, TREE)
• other subject centres and the HE Academy
• www.heacademy.ac.uk/
• generic organisations (e.g. F4F)
• students
• academic support staff

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Promoting good practice and innovation

• in learning and teaching in engineering.
• newsletter, translate, 3 times a year
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• visits to engineering departments
• Departmental Contacts
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• www.engsc.ac.uk/an/contacts/index.asp
• receive and disseminate news, information,
  resources,
• organise bespoke events, visits, meetings,
• be our point of contact

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Development and recognition .

• of good practice and innovation in learning and
  teaching in engineering.
• funding opportunities
• www.engsc.ac.uk/us/fundopps/index.asp
• Mini-Projects (3500)
• Special Interest Groups (1500)
• Teaching Awards
• working with Centres for Excellence in Teaching
  and Learning
• www.engsc.ac.uk/an/cetl/index.asp

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Professional development

• .. providing discipline based opportunities.
• programme of workshops for engineering academics
  on key topics
• Engineering Education Conference July 2006
• New Lecturers Workshop
• working with HE Academy, professional bodies and
  institutional staff developers

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Development of research in engineering pedagogy

• increasing understanding and awareness
• commissioning new research
• promoting research new journal
• Engineering Education the Journal of the
  Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject
  Centre
• www.engsc.ac.uk/journal/index.htm