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Validating The Slowmation Learning Design: Comparing A Learning Design With Students’ Experiences Of Learning, G. Hoban, W. Nielsen, D. Macdonald, B. Ferry Dec 2009

Validating The Slowmation Learning Design: Comparing A Learning Design With Students’ Experiences Of Learning, G. Hoban, W. Nielsen, D. Macdonald, B. Ferry

The Future of Learning Design Conference

A slowmation (abbreviated from slow-motion animation) is a narrated animation designed and made by learners that is played in slow motion at 2 frames/second to explain a science concept. The purpose of this study was to compare the proposed learning design of a slowmation with the actual learning experiences of three preservice primary teachers as they created an animation about an obscure topic over a period of two hours. A range of data gathering methods were used to document the students’ learning experiences including individual interviews before and after creation to ascertain their pre and post knowledge as well as …

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A Taxonomy For Simulation Learning Designs: Implications For Repositories, Sandra Wills Dec 2009

A Taxonomy For Simulation Learning Designs: Implications For Repositories, Sandra Wills

The Future of Learning Design Conference

Project EnROLE2 has been a two year $200,000 project funded by the Australian Learning & Teaching Council (ALTC) to encourage uptake of online role based learning environments, with particular focus on what is commonly referred to as role play. Role play is widely acknowledged to be a powerful teaching technique in face to face, blended and online teaching contexts and has been previously singled out as an example of good practice by ALTC predecessors: CAUT, CUTSD and AUTC. The first known example in Australia, and possibly the world, was Middle Eastern Politics Simulation by Andrew Vincent & John Shepherd which …

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Learning Designs To Engage And Support Learners, N. Baharun, A. Porter Dec 2009

Learning Designs To Engage And Support Learners, N. Baharun, A. Porter

The Future of Learning Design Conference

This paper reports on a case study aimed at developing a better understanding on how to design student learning experiences using of digital technologies and in particular using video resources within the subject to engage and support learners with a view to impacting on their learning. Drawing on student learning experiences, the study examines the circumstances under which students are more likely to engage with a variety of learning resources. It seeks to identify how best to place the resources and to determine which resources components could play important roles within the subject. Outcomes from the study presents the rationale …

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Towards A Learning Design For Student-Generated Digital Storytelling, M. Kearney Dec 2009

Towards A Learning Design For Student-Generated Digital Storytelling, M. Kearney

The Future of Learning Design Conference

The literature on digital video in education often emphasises the use of pre-fabricated, instructional style video assets. Learning designs for supporting the use of these expert-generated video products have been developed (e.g. Burden & Atkinson, 2008). However, there has been a paucity of pedagogical frameworks for facilitating learner-generated video projects. This paper outlines an emerging learning design for a popular genre: learner-generated digital storytelling.

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How Learning Design Can Illuminate Teaching Practice, L. Cameron Dec 2009

How Learning Design Can Illuminate Teaching Practice, L. Cameron

The Future of Learning Design Conference

The field of learning design holds the promise of providing teachers with a framework that will enable them to design high quality, effective and innovative learning experiences for their students. By creating the possibility of deconstructing their existing teaching strategies; aiding reflection on their own practice; documenting and scaffolding innovative learning activities; and sharing and reusing expert practice, learning design has the potential to improve the quality of teaching throughout the higher education sector. A key challenge for the future of Learning Design is to continue to bridge the gap between rich, descriptive models and technologies (such as IMS-LD), and …

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Learning Design, Design Contexts And Pedagogical Knowledge-In-Pieces, P. Goodyear, L. Markauskaite, Y. Kali Dec 2009

Learning Design, Design Contexts And Pedagogical Knowledge-In-Pieces, P. Goodyear, L. Markauskaite, Y. Kali

The Future of Learning Design Conference

This paper argues the case for conducting theoretically well-grounded empirical research into teachers’ design activities, including their design thinking, as a strategically important complement to practical development work in the field of learning design. We identify some issues arising from two related lines of empirical research in which we have been engaged – drawing attention to the importance of context in design cognition. We also introduce a conception of teachers’ personal pedagogical knowledge as ‘knowledge in pieces’, and examine some of the implications of this view for thinking about the relationships between pedagogical beliefs, design decisions and teaching practices.

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Understanding The Design Context For Australian University Teachers: Implications For The Future Of Learning Design, S. Bennett, Lisa Kosta, S. Agostinho, L. Lockyer, J. Jones, B. Harper Dec 2009

Understanding The Design Context For Australian University Teachers: Implications For The Future Of Learning Design, S. Bennett, Lisa Kosta, S. Agostinho, L. Lockyer, J. Jones, B. Harper

The Future of Learning Design Conference

Based on the premise that support for university teachers in designing their units will improve teaching and ultimately improve the quality of student learning outcomes, recent interest in the development of tools and strategies has gained momentum. This paper reports on a study that has examined the contexts in which Australian university teachers design in order to understand what role design support tools and strategies could play. It appears that Australian university teachers can exercise a high degree of choice in terms of design, indicating that there may be opportunities for teachers to consider using reusable learning designs.

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Treating Malnutrition In Hospitals: Dietitians In The Driving Seat?, K. L. Walton Dec 2009

Treating Malnutrition In Hospitals: Dietitians In The Driving Seat?, K. L. Walton

Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)

Although the problem of malnutrition in hospitals is not new,1,2 it is still a serious concern in Australian hospitals today. The population is ageing and patients are admitted with multiple medical problems placing them at increased risk of malnutrition. Malnutrition prevalence rates in Australian hospitals have ranged from 6-53%.3-13 The wide variation is due to different study settings; the time between admission and assessment, and the assessment tool used. Malnutrition is a considerable problem that increases with age. Patients over 80 years have a higher odds risk of being malnourished compared with those between 61-80 years.9 Chronically ill patients, many …

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Pretty Fly For A White Guy: Audio Repatriation To Arnhem Land, S. J. Angel Dec 2009

Pretty Fly For A White Guy: Audio Repatriation To Arnhem Land, S. J. Angel

Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)

Return to Arnhem Land broadcast on ABC Radio National's Radio Eye in 2007 is a significant and culturally important radio documentary. It charts the return of ancient song cycles, recorded in 1948 by ABC broadcaster and sound recordist Colin Simpson and technician Ray Giles, to the Oenpelli community in West Arnhem Land in 2006. It tells, through the eyes and voice of historian, broadcaster and narrator Martin Thomas, how these recordings came to be as he returns them to the community; and what the community makes of them as cultural records: artefacts of cultural heritage. The documentary is stirring and …

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Introduction, Christine M. De Matos Dec 2009

Introduction, Christine M. De Matos

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

It was during the seasonal change from summer to autumn that I first landed in Tokyo as a naïve 21 year old, ready to embark on a working holiday adventure. I had no Japanese language skills, no knowledge of Japanese history or culture beyond western clichés and stereotypes, and 1000 yen in my pocket. When I think back to this time I am amazed at the courage (or was it denial and ignorance?) I must have had; I am even more surprised to remember the emotion I experienced, for as soon as I set foot in that great cosmopolitan city, …

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Social Responsibility, Business Strategy And Development: The Case Of Grameen-Danone Foods Limited, Asad Ghalib, Farhad Hossain, Thankom Arun Dec 2009

Social Responsibility, Business Strategy And Development: The Case Of Grameen-Danone Foods Limited, Asad Ghalib, Farhad Hossain, Thankom Arun

Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal

The aim of this paper is to study the phenomenon of Social Business Enterprises (SBEs) and gain an understanding of their nature, operations, objectives and implications by using Grameen Danone Foods Limited (GDFL) as an illustration. Within this context, some questions that this paper seeks to explore are: is the concept of Social Businesses just another ‘fashionable business marketing fad’ that will fade and wither with time, or does it offer a real workable solution to cure the ills of global poverty? The paper seeks to investigate, with Grameen Danone’s case, if, how and to what extent such social businesses …

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Educating Accounting Students In The Age Of Sustainability, Martin Kelly, Mansurul Alam Dec 2009

Educating Accounting Students In The Age Of Sustainability, Martin Kelly, Mansurul Alam

Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal

In many Business Schools today, accounting academics have been introduced to the concept of sustainability that challenges the dominant 20th century way of doing business. In these schools, it is now reasoned that the purpose of business may be better achieved if it involves taking decisions that recognize the holistic economic, social and environmental consequences of those decisions. Simply justifying decisions on the basis that shareholders’ wealth will be maximized is now thought by many to be inadequate. We argue that this new perspective should not be taught to accounting students. Rather we argue that (following Aristotle) students should be …

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Dividend History And Determinants In Selected Indian Companies: A Study During 1993-'94 To 2004-'05, Anupam Parua, Arindam Gupta Dec 2009

Dividend History And Determinants In Selected Indian Companies: A Study During 1993-'94 To 2004-'05, Anupam Parua, Arindam Gupta

Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal

The study attempts to find out the trends in dividend payment and determinants of dividend decision. A sample of 607 BSE-listed Indian companies has been considered for the period from 1993-94 to 2004-05. Study results show that number of non-payers and low-payers of dividend has increased. Again, average dividend payments are on the rise continuously. It means that there is no room for moderate dividend payment. Average dividend for the past three years is the most consistent and significant determinant of dividend payment. Current profit, past profit and expected future profit have significant positive role to play in setting dividend …

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The Role Of Theory In Explaining Motivation For Corporate Social Disclosures: Voluntary Disclosures Vs ‘Solicited’ Disclosures, Sandra Van Der Laan Dec 2009

The Role Of Theory In Explaining Motivation For Corporate Social Disclosures: Voluntary Disclosures Vs ‘Solicited’ Disclosures, Sandra Van Der Laan

Australasian Accounting, Business and Finance Journal

Corporate social disclosures (CSD) are primarily voluntary in nature and subsequently provide an area for research into motivational aspects of disclosures. The main focus of prior research has been whether corporate social disclosures constitute a discharge of accountability or are part of a process of legitimation. Prior research, however, ignores the emergence of an alternate style of corporate social disclosure, the ‘solicited’ disclosure. Increasingly companies are requested to report on their interactions with society in various forms. Non-government organisations (NGOs), regulatory agencies, ethical or socially responsible investment fund managers and other researchers are requesting social information from corporations. This shift …

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Real-World Performance Of Current Proactive Multi-Hop Mesh Protocols, M. Abolhasan, Brett Hagelstein, Jerry Chun-Ping Wang Oct 2009

Real-World Performance Of Current Proactive Multi-Hop Mesh Protocols, M. Abolhasan, Brett Hagelstein, Jerry Chun-Ping Wang

Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)

The proliferation of mesh or ad hoc network protocols has lead to a push for protocol standardisation. While there are a number of both open-source and proprietary mesh routing protocols being developed, there is only a small amount of literature available that shows relative strengths and weaknesses of different protocols. This paper investigates the performance of a number of available routing protocols using a real-world testbed. Three routing protocols - Optimised Link State Routing (OLSR), Better Approach To Mobile Ad hoc Network (B.A.T.M.A.N.) and BABEL - were chosen for this study. Our investigations focus on the multi-hopping performance and the …

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Correspondence: Routine Early Angioplasty After Fibrinolysis, Bradley R. Wilsmore, Andrea D. Wilsmore Oct 2009

Correspondence: Routine Early Angioplasty After Fibrinolysis, Bradley R. Wilsmore, Andrea D. Wilsmore

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

To the Editor: Cantor et al. (June 25 issue)1 conclude that among high-risk patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction who receive fibrinolysis, prompt interhospital transfer for early percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) after fibrinolysis is associated with significantly fewer ischemic complications than is standard treatment. Fundamental to this study’s findings are the criteria for identifying the high-risk patients who are likely to benefit from routine early angioplasty after fibrinolysis. ...................................................

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Desalinated Versus Recycled Water — Public Perceptions And Profiles Of The Accepters, Sara Dolnicar, A. I. Schäfer Oct 2009

Desalinated Versus Recycled Water — Public Perceptions And Profiles Of The Accepters, Sara Dolnicar, A. I. Schäfer

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Many countries’ water resources are limited in both quantity and quality. While engineering solutions can now safely produce recycled and desalinated water from non-potable sources at a relatively low cost, the general public is sceptical about adopting these alternative water sources. Social scientists need to better understand what is causing this lack of acceptance by the general population and how acceptance levels for recycled and desalinated water can be increased. This study is the first to conduct a comparative analysis of knowledge, perceptions, acceptability, and determine segments of residents who are more open-minded than the general population toward the use …

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“We Know It When We See It” Is Not Good Enough: Toward A Standard Definition Of Plagiarism That Transcends Theft, Fraud, And Copyright, Teddi Fishman Sep 2009

“We Know It When We See It” Is Not Good Enough: Toward A Standard Definition Of Plagiarism That Transcends Theft, Fraud, And Copyright, Teddi Fishman

4th Asia Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity (4APCEI)

Many of the assumptions that inform the ways we respond to issues of plagiarism are based in laws and traditions that pertain to stealing or to copyright. Laws about stealing, however, assume key concepts that are at odds with the conceptual realities of plagiarism. The notion of taking something, for instance, carries with it the concomitant idea that the rightful owner is deprived of the use of that thing. Laws about copyright are similarly derived from the notion of a physical text being duplicated to make additional (physical) copies to be sold, implying that if copyright is violated, the rightful …

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Research Apprenticeship: Is This The Answer To Inadvertent Plagiarism In Undergraduate Students’ Writings?, Ursula Mcgowan Sep 2009

Research Apprenticeship: Is This The Answer To Inadvertent Plagiarism In Undergraduate Students’ Writings?, Ursula Mcgowan

4th Asia Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity (4APCEI)

To deal with inadvertent plagiarism, a conceptual framework based on an apprenticeship model for undergraduate education is proposed here. It aims to provide students with guidance, feedback and time to develop (1) an understanding of the rationale for the requirement of referencing conventions in university education and (2) tools for lifelong language learning and skills in emulating the writings of the experts in their disciplines.

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Electronic Portfolios: Balancing Learning And Assessment, Gail Ring Sep 2009

Electronic Portfolios: Balancing Learning And Assessment, Gail Ring

4th Asia Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity (4APCEI)

In 2006, our university instituted a requirement that all undergraduates create and submit a digital portfolio as evidence of academic and experiential mastery of academic competencies. The rationale for this ePortfolio Program is to build a mechanism through which core competencies (Written and Oral Communication; Reasoning, Critical Thinking, and Problem Solving; Mathematical, Scientific, and Technological Literacy; Social Science and Cross-Cultural Awareness; Arts and Humanities; and Ethical Judgment) can be both demonstrated and evaluated. Although the ePortfolio was originally implemented as an assessment tool, its broader educational function is to make students' college education more meaningful and to assess the integrity …

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Plagiarism, Ethics And Education: Where To Now?, Wendy Sutherland-Smith, Sue Saltmarsh Sep 2009

Plagiarism, Ethics And Education: Where To Now?, Wendy Sutherland-Smith, Sue Saltmarsh

4th Asia Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity (4APCEI)

Agreement within tertiary institutions about the most effective ways to deal with plagiarism continue to be fraught with tension. Institutions often opt for multiple means of deterrence, including electronic and human detection; revamped policies and procedures to increase deterrence and instigating an overall increased awareness of academic integrity issues within the academic community. One approach focuses on ethics as a vehicle in overcoming plagiarism. Universities add compulsory ‘ethical’ units or segments within existent subjects to ‘cover’ plagiarism and other issues of academic integrity in programs. However, how is this approach operating in practice? Are students sustaining notions of ethical practice …

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Taking Action On Academic Integrity At One Australian University, Julianne East Sep 2009

Taking Action On Academic Integrity At One Australian University, Julianne East

4th Asia Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity (4APCEI)

Despite all the work put into writing policies to reduce academic misconduct, all the writing of guidelines for how to acknowledge, and all the declarations of how academic integrity is valued, few Australian universities could say with confidence that they have a holistic, integrated approach to dealing with academic misconduct and academic integrity. One Australian university, for example, has a well-written policy which clearly outlines lecturer responsibilities, yet that university has not monitored whether staff are aware of these responsibilities and if they are implementing them. Given the heavy workload of lecturers, why would lecturers seek out policy and/or bother …

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A Space Odyssey: The Implications Of Moving The Writing Center Into The Virtual World, Barbara Ramirez Sep 2009

A Space Odyssey: The Implications Of Moving The Writing Center Into The Virtual World, Barbara Ramirez

4th Asia Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity (4APCEI)

For decades, traditional writing centers have offered tutoring services in face-to-face environments, but with the growing popularity of distance education, many students now need online access to tutoring. To meet this need, some writing centers are exploring the idea of “virtual” tutoring. As we explore options using virtual environments such as Second Life for this purpose, we are confronted with a range of questions about changes in the dynamics of the tutoring process, many of which concern academic integrity.

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Managing University Reputations, Peter Curtin Sep 2009

Managing University Reputations, Peter Curtin

4th Asia Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity (4APCEI)

There has been a failure to recognise the effects of commercial pressure on university administration, and a failure to recognise the different and incompatible goals of commerce and education. To the extent there is conflict and competition between the goals of education and commerce, short term commercial considerations seem to be paramount. Reputation management which brings short term commercial success includes suppression of dissent and criticism, and the covering up of misconduct and wrongdoing in universities. Reputation management which allows dissent and criticism leading to the exposure of wrongdoing, and then allows reform of university administrations, results in longer term …

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Reminiscences Of The University Of Sydney Psychology Department’S Discipline-Focused Education Of Young John (1958-65) Under O’Neil’S God Professorial Reign (1945-65): Academic Freedom, Fairness In Evaluation, And Educational Integrity, John Furedy Sep 2009

Reminiscences Of The University Of Sydney Psychology Department’S Discipline-Focused Education Of Young John (1958-65) Under O’Neil’S God Professorial Reign (1945-65): Academic Freedom, Fairness In Evaluation, And Educational Integrity, John Furedy

4th Asia Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity (4APCEI)

This paper is a modification of and some additions to an oral paper given in 2008 to philosophers and psychologists most of whose current thinking is along the lines of a post-modern, instrumentalist approach to knowledge and higher education. The paper’s (long) title shamelessly plagiarizes from the title of the book by the much more eminent Donald Horne. The approach I advocate, and look back to (perhaps with glasses that are somewhat rose tinted) is one that characterized O’Neil’s department. The approach was pre-modernist in a number of differentiating respects that included complete academic freedom, education rather than indoctrination, and …

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Embedding Academic Integrity At The University Of Wollongong, Pauline Lysaght, Yvonne Kerr, Lucia Tome Sep 2009

Embedding Academic Integrity At The University Of Wollongong, Pauline Lysaght, Yvonne Kerr, Lucia Tome

4th Asia Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity (4APCEI)

This paper provides a preliminary report on a project designed to determine how effectively values associated with academic integrity have been embedded in the learning and teaching environment at UOW. Five key values have been formally identified at UOW: honesty, trust, fairness, respect and responsibility. These values are based on those espoused by the Centre for Academic Integrity (CAI) at Duke University in North Carolina and are recognised as central to academic honesty. Academic staff at UOW, charged with responsibilities for shaping educational policy and implementing, monitoring and reviewing processes that support the development of academic integrity across the student …

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The Effectiveness Of Plagiarism Detection Software As A Learning Tool In Academic Writing Education, Brad Stappenbelt, Chris Rowles Sep 2009

The Effectiveness Of Plagiarism Detection Software As A Learning Tool In Academic Writing Education, Brad Stappenbelt, Chris Rowles

4th Asia Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity (4APCEI)

Plagiarism detection software (or more accurately, text-matching software) is commonly employed in a punitive capacity, detecting plagiarism after assignment submission. As an alternative to this approach, online plagiarism detection software was adopted as a learning tool for students instead. A trial was conducted in the foundation unit of the professional development component of the engineering degree at the University of Western Australia. Prior to the use of plagiarism detection software as a learning tool, efforts to instruct students regarding proper referencing and paraphrasing did not result in commensurate decreases in the levels of plagiarism detected. Many student assignments submitted displayed …

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Pursuing Mediocrity: Academics Should Be Ashamed, C. Nick Kalman Sep 2009

Pursuing Mediocrity: Academics Should Be Ashamed, C. Nick Kalman

4th Asia Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity (4APCEI)

Compared to students, the big cheats are academics. They show gross prejudice in hiring decisions, and anything else relevant to advancement. Second-raters need not fear for their future: they just need to polish their bootlicking. Don’t complain unless you want to be a loser in this competition.

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Embedding Copy Detection Within An Automated Submission System For Programming Assignments, Gordon Lingard Sep 2009

Embedding Copy Detection Within An Automated Submission System For Programming Assignments, Gordon Lingard

4th Asia Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity (4APCEI)

To address the problem of computer programming students copying and colluding on assignments, since 2003 a system has been developed and utilised at the University of Technology, Sydney that embeds copy detection information within the logs of a submission system used by the students to submit assignments. This creates a detailed audit trail that allows for the determination of who has created and who has copied code. Beyond that, the information can be mined to see how student networks form to exchange information.

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How Is Research On Academic Plagiarism In China Conducted? A Preliminary Investigation Of The Recent Change In The Style Of Writing In An Academic Journal, Fande Liu Sep 2009

How Is Research On Academic Plagiarism In China Conducted? A Preliminary Investigation Of The Recent Change In The Style Of Writing In An Academic Journal, Fande Liu

4th Asia Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity (4APCEI)

This paper reports on the findings from a study on an academic journal – Academics in China. The journal, launched in 1986, is representative of academic journals in China in the field of the humanities and social sciences. It deals with the issue of academic plagiarism and other forms of academic corruption. By analysing articles about academic plagiarism published in this journal in 1999, 2000, 2004 and 2008, it provides statistics and analysis on the perception of Chinese academics about plagiarism within Chinese academe. It found that open discussion about academic plagiarism and other academic corruption in China dramatically increased …

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