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5 Best Online Plagiarism Checkers for Teachers to Use in 2024

PlagiarismCheck

A good plagiarism checker is a superhero among education-related tools. Google Classroom, Moodle, Canvas integrations, Google Docs add-on , and browser extensions. Responsive round-the-clock customer support, free unlimited training for the faculty, and special offers for educators. A vast database of scholarly articles.

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How Social Media Encourages Plagiarism (and Six Ways You Can Fight It)

Edsurge

Consider this sequence : 95% high school students cheat; then they go on to undergraduate education, where 68% cheat; then to graduate school, where 43% of them still cheat. This creates an unhealthy, competitive environment which actually promotes cheating by shifting the focus from education to grades.

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Beware Edtech’s Equivalent of the Flashlight App

Edsurge

This shift is happening in education technology as well, notably with the learning management system (LMS). An ecosystem that provides more value to the user is the one with fewer flashlight apps, because that’s the hallmark of a job well done. Edtech products designed on the LTI standard can serve as “plugins” to these LMSs.

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What next with the LMS? A conversation with Phill Hill, continued

Bryan Alexander

What drove such wide adoption in Europe and other regions for Moodle over the years? What are your thoughts about competency-based education (CBE)? The OPEN education movement is gaining ground. What’s happening with Sakai? Julie Uranis). What LMS is popular for not for credit? (by by 4 year public) (Tom).

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What next with the LMS? A conversation with Phill Hill, continued

Bryan Alexander

What drove such wide adoption in Europe and other regions for Moodle over the years? What are your thoughts about competency-based education (CBE)? The OPEN education movement is gaining ground. What’s happening with Sakai? Julie Uranis). What LMS is popular for not for credit? (by by 4 year public) (Tom).

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Open, Value-Added Services, Interaction, and Learning

Iterating Toward Openness

Both the wider internet and the narrower education space are filled with companies and organizations that provide value-added services around openly licensed software and content. of all instructional staff in US higher education were part-time (adjuncts) and another 19.3% Examples of Value-Added Services in the Context of Open.

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So you want to create an online class independent of a school

Bryan Alexander

A little background: the person asking me this is not affiliated with an educational institution at the moment, so they can’t relay on campus resources, nor use a.edu email address. Moodle – the popular LMS/VLE takes some backend skills to install and host, but can also be accessed from hosting services like MoodleCloud.

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