Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Wednesday, October 24, 2001

http://www.miami.com/herald/content/news/canada/digdocs/052989.htm

Increasing number of Canadian institutions attacking Internet plagiarism
BY GREG JOYCE, Canadian Press

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- It's great when you have an original thought and put it down on paper; it's bad when you put someone else's thought down on paper without credit. It's called plagiarism -- a high-blown word for theft. Recently, the University of B.C. signed on to a system to catch the thieves. The university has joined a growing list of Canadian institutions -- including the Royal Military College of Canada, the University of New Brunswick and the University of Western Ontario -- subscribing to http://www.turnitin.com -- an Oakland, Calif., based company that maintains a massive database to check originality....

 



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