Attitude to plagiarism in different European countries
Plagiarism is an important and frequently discussed issue, which may have severe financial impacts for higher education institutions across Europe. However, there are different attitudes to this topic in different countries. Whereas ECTS aims to provide an objective measurement of student effort allowing students to spend part of their studies at different institutions and even different countries, the penalties for plagiarism and other types of cheating may be different. Even the definition of plagiarism may be understood differently in particular European countries. One of the aims of the project IPPHEAE is to identify these differences and try to find common solutions for related problems.The aim of the paper is to present results of research focused on attitudes to plagiarism in Great Britain, Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania, Cyprus and Bulgaria. A questionnaire survey was conducted in these countries among students and teachers. The results are interesting and inspiring and show huge differences in attitude to plagiarism between western and post-communist countries, surprisingly including the Czech Republic in the group of western countries.
Národní registr VŠKP a systém na odhalování plagiátů
Jednim z mimořadně tiživých problemů vysokeho skolstvi, jemuž
znacný význam přiklada i siroka veřejnost, je plagiatorstvi
vysokoskolských praci. V loňskem roce si sedmnact vysokých skol
vytýcilo cil přispět ke zvýseni kvality těchto praci a
vysokoskolskeho vzdělavani vytvořenim celonarodniho registru
zavěrecných praci spojeneho s uložistěm praci vcetně odhalovani
plagiatů. Projekt navazuje na technologicke zkusenosti
Masarykovy univerzity, ktera disponuje vlastnim uložistěm
elektronických verzi zavěrecných praci od roku 2004 a od roku
2006 veřejně přistupným archivem zavěrecných praci v ramci
sveho informacniho systemu pro podporu studia (Informacni
system Masarykovy univerzity, IS MU) vcetně jedinecne služby
pro odhalovani plagiatů. Dale navazuje take na zkusenosti
koncepcniho a metodologickeho charakteru, ktere jsou nutne pro
sběr nebo zpřistupňovani praci a souviseji s univerzitnimi
procesy. Masarykova univerzita je koordinatorem projektu. Od
ledna 2008 je na adrese http://theses.cz/ již k dispozici
testovaci verze systemu. Ukazky a informace k aktualnimu stavu
projektu jsou hlavni casti přispěvku. Projekt využiva v oblasti
struktur a funkci narodniho registru VSKP zkusenosti Odborne
komise pro otazky elektronickeho zpřistupňovani vysokoskolských
kvalifikacnich praci v cele s Vysokou skolou ekonomickou v
Praze. Projekt se neomezuje jen na prace zavěrecne, ale
navazuje i na prace seminarni nebo publikacni dila. K projektu
přistoupily take soukrome a zahranicni skoly.
Global Literacies and the World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is transforming the way that information is distributed, received and acted upon. Global Literacies and the World Wide Web provides a critical examination of the new on line literacy practices and values, and how these are determined by national, cultural and educational contexts. Gail Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe have brought together scholars from around the world, including: Mexico, Hungary, Australia, Palau, Cuba, Scotland, Greece, Japan, Africa and the United States. Each represents and examines on line literacy practices in their specific culture. Global Literacies and the World Wide Web resists a romanticised and inaccurate vision of global oneness. Instead, this book celebrates the dynamic capacity of these new self defined literacy communities to challenge the global village myth with robust, hybrid redefintions of identity that honour ethnic, cultural, economic, historical, and ideological differences. This is a lively and original challenge to conventional notions of the relationship between literacy and technology.