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Saturday, July 30, 2011

Turnitin Whitepaper: Plagiarism and the Web: Myths and Realities


An Analytical Study on Where Students Find Unoriginal Content on the Internet

Students are being raised in a digital culture where sharing, re-using and copying is routine. This study examines which Internet sites students rely on for unoriginal content in their written work. The data was extracted from 110 million content matches in 40 million student papers that were submitted to Turnitin over a ten-month period. MORE
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Campus Technology: Higher Ed E-Learning Growth To Continue at Modest Pace Through 2015


While electronic learning will continue to grow in higher education, that growth will be a bit slower than previously anticipated, according to a new report released this week. In fact, that slowing trend will be felt worldwide across nearly all segments--with a few notable exceptions.
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University Business: The Peril of Cutting Pell Grants (Opinion)



Funding reductions in the Pell Grant program will result in many deserving lower-income students not being able to achieve middle class status and will have huge implications for the standard of living of the entire nation. MORE
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University Business: An iPad University: Giving It the Old College Try


When you think of an online degree, you might imagine a pajama-clad thirty-something, clicking through slides on a text-filled screen, occasionally watching an instructional video or lecture to spice things up. According to University of Southern California’s Melora Sundt, that picture is all wrong. MORE
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Dillard University: Dillard Today E-Newsletter, July 2011

A monthly e-newsletter for Dillard University students, alumni and friends.

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