Protecting students' intellectual property in the web plagiarism detection process

Learning management systems (LMS) play a central role in communications in online and distance education. In the digital era, with all the information now accessible at students’ fingertips, plagiarism detection services (PDS) have become a must-have part of LMS. Such integration provides a seamless...

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Autores principales: Sergey Butakov, Vadim Dyagilev, Alexander Tskhay
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Publicado: Athabasca University Press 2012
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:34bcab77e3b84db9aa63a4da1de7987c2021-12-02T19:20:30ZProtecting students' intellectual property in the web plagiarism detection process10.19173/irrodl.v13i5.12391492-3831https://doaj.org/article/34bcab77e3b84db9aa63a4da1de7987c2012-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1239https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831Learning management systems (LMS) play a central role in communications in online and distance education. In the digital era, with all the information now accessible at students’ fingertips, plagiarism detection services (PDS) have become a must-have part of LMS. Such integration provides a seamless experience for users, allowing PDS to check submitted digital artifacts without any noticeable effort by either professor or student. In most such systems, to compare a submitted work with possible sources on the Internet, the university transfers the student’s submission to a third-party service. Such an approach is often criticized by students, who regard this process as a violation of copyright law. To address this issue, this paper outlines an improved approach for PDS development that should allow universities to avoid such criticism. The major proposed alteration of the mainstream architecture is to move document preprocessing and search result clarification from the third-party system back to the university system. The proposed architecture changes would allow schools to submit only limited information to the third party and avoid criticism about intellectual property violation. Sergey ButakovVadim DyagilevAlexander TskhayAthabasca University Pressarticlee-learningLMScomputer mediated communicationCMCSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 13, Iss 5 (2012)
institution DOAJ
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topic e-learning
LMS
computer mediated communication
CMC
Special aspects of education
LC8-6691
spellingShingle e-learning
LMS
computer mediated communication
CMC
Special aspects of education
LC8-6691
Sergey Butakov
Vadim Dyagilev
Alexander Tskhay
Protecting students' intellectual property in the web plagiarism detection process
description Learning management systems (LMS) play a central role in communications in online and distance education. In the digital era, with all the information now accessible at students’ fingertips, plagiarism detection services (PDS) have become a must-have part of LMS. Such integration provides a seamless experience for users, allowing PDS to check submitted digital artifacts without any noticeable effort by either professor or student. In most such systems, to compare a submitted work with possible sources on the Internet, the university transfers the student’s submission to a third-party service. Such an approach is often criticized by students, who regard this process as a violation of copyright law. To address this issue, this paper outlines an improved approach for PDS development that should allow universities to avoid such criticism. The major proposed alteration of the mainstream architecture is to move document preprocessing and search result clarification from the third-party system back to the university system. The proposed architecture changes would allow schools to submit only limited information to the third party and avoid criticism about intellectual property violation.
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Alexander Tskhay
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title Protecting students' intellectual property in the web plagiarism detection process
title_short Protecting students' intellectual property in the web plagiarism detection process
title_full Protecting students' intellectual property in the web plagiarism detection process
title_fullStr Protecting students' intellectual property in the web plagiarism detection process
title_full_unstemmed Protecting students' intellectual property in the web plagiarism detection process
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publisher Athabasca University Press
publishDate 2012
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