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Success Story: Securing Academic Integrity with NEO LMS and Turnitin

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This is why simplification should be a central principle for academic institutions, especially with hybrid and remote learning. With this in mind, CYPHER LEARNING and Turnitin began collaborating in 2015. Our integration simplifies the assessment of written assignments for users of NEO LMS and Turnitin.

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The Power of Rubrics—Students Take Control of Their Own Learning and Achievement

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Summary: Patti West-Smith, an expert in pedagogy from Turnitin, explains that with a bit of up-front guidance, rubrics help students become self-directed learners who see exactly how to improve before turning in their paper or assignment. A writing professor could begin by asking her students to assess their own work on an assignment.

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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

" Even the notion of "what works" should prompt us to ask all sorts of questions about "for whom," "in what way," and "why." That is, we are less likely to use ed-tech to rethink assignments or assessments than we are to use ed-tech more closely scrutinize student behavior.

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Novel Ideas for Writing Instruction

techlearning

OVER TWO MILLION WORDS IN FOUR WEEKS First-grade students at Milton Public Schools use SeeSaw to narrate a story and record. At Milton (MA) Public Schools last February, 758 fourth- and fifth-grade students engaged in a four-week collaborative story writing experience. Using Epic! It’s awesome, customizable, and quick,” he says.

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Cheating, Policing, and School Surveillance

Hack Education

These were the days before TurnItIn and other plagiarism checking software were widely adopted by schools. These were the early days of the learning management system software, however, and the UO was an early adopter of Blackboard — that's a different albeit related story.) Guilty until TurnItIn proves you innocent.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

I think it is worthwhile, as the decade draws to a close, to review those stories and to see how much (or how little) things have changed. Rich People’s Kids Don’t Use Tech" (and Other Stories about the Silicon Valley Elite). Why are video-taped lectures so “revolutionary” if lectures themselves are supposedly not? (As

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” More via Diverse Issues in Higher Education , who I believe broke the story. ” Via Education Week : “Market Is Booming for Digital Formative Assessments.” ” There’s more from Slate in its series on online credit recovery programs : “Why Bad Online Courses Are Still Taught in Schools.”