A Student-Centered Approach for Reducing Plagiarism

Consider how student-centered, accessible, and contextual course design can reduce students’ propensity to cheat and improve learning for all. With the advent of generative AI, contract cheating, and app-based cheating, fears about preventing plagiarism are running high. This two-part workshop offers attendees a comprehensive look at a different paradigm for preventing plagiarism, one that uses a student-centered, accessible, and contextual course design to reduce students’ propensity to cheat. Participants will learn about adapting the concept of plagiarism to a Gen Y context, how to effectively convey those ideas to their students and, how they can take steps to design assignments that reduce the circumstances that lead to plagiarism. By the end of this workshop, participants will be prepared to:

• Discern between deficit/theft-based and skill/labor-based approaches to plagiarism
• Develop a holistic approach to teaching scholarly citation culture and attribution
• Identify best practices that reduce risk factors for plagiarism
• Revise an assessment using best practices to reduce plagiarism

Instructors

Teresa Hooper, University of Tennessee
Robert Jacobsen, University of Tennessee

Workshop Schedule

This two-session online workshop meets on Mondays, October 21 and October 28 at 11:30am-1:00pm.

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