Ibrahim Bitikcioglu, our Turkish member of the team, was recently entered into the Student Employee of the Year awards by nLearning and was successful in the North East heat!

Ibrahim has been working at the company for 6 months now and has helped us immensely in targeting the Turkish market. We currently have 3 students working part time and covering Polish, Slovak, Spanish, Turkish and Czech and we are always looking at the possibility of expanding the team and our language capabilities further. If you would be interested in finding out more, please contact james.thorley@nlearning.co.uk

Ibrahim was interviewed as part of the Award process and the short video of this, where he talks about his experiences with the company, can be viewed below.

Plagiarismadvice.org will be presenting at the EDULEARN09 International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies  on the 6th, 7th & 8th July in Barcelona, Spain.

Plagiarismadvice.org will be talking about the origins of plagiarism advice and how Turnitin UK became part of a national strategy for ensuring authenticity in student work

Plagiarismadvice.org will be presenting at the Colleges of Further and Higher Education Conference on the 18th June at the Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.

Plagiarismadvice.org will be holding a workshop on  “Using TurnitinUK formatively to promote information skills development”.

PlagiarismAdvice.org recently presented at the third annual “Institutional Policies and Procedures for Dealing with Plagiarism” meeting on 4 June at Oxford Brookes University.

PlagiarismAdvice.org hosted a well-attended workshop session on “Integrating use of plagiarism detection software into institutional academic misconduct policies” which shared good practice and advice in this area drawn from a range of institutions.

The day itself provided a useful insight into research and approaches to addressing plagiarism within institutions, with wide-ranging and enlightening discussions.  Slides and photographs from the event can be found on the ASKe CETL website.

Last week saw the inaugural Turnitin Irish User Group meeting at the National College of Ireland in Dublin, and PlagiarismAdvice.org also had a stand at the EdTech conference over the following two days.

Around 20 attendees from Institutions across Ireland were present at the User Group. Presentations from various institutions on their use of Turnitin were all well received and a good discussion concerning various models of use ensued. From our point of view, it was interesting to compare how the question of plagiarism was being addressed in Ireland compared to the UK. We also discussed the setting up of a forum for Irish users similar to that for UK users.

The EdTech conference was also a very well run event with some good Keynote speakers. From our perspective, it was great to put some faces to names at last! We also got the chance to show our new Moodle plug-in to various people, which received a great deal of interest.  Overall, a very enjoyable, well organised event that we will be certainly attending again in future years.

The first Irish user group meeting will take place on Wednesday 20 May,  at the National College of Ireland, Mayor Street, IFSC, Dublin 1. The meeting will begin at 2pm in room 3.02.

The draft agenda is as follows: Read more…

In this interview, conducted by Kevin Brace from the JISC RSC West Midlands, lecturer Carol Bailey discusses her use of  TurnitinUK with international students at the University of Wolverhampton and the positive effect it has had on development of their referencing and paraphrasing skills.

This free workshop for HE practitioners teaching on Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths programmes in FE colleges will take place on 1 June, 2009 at Wakefield College. This event is being run by PlagiarismAdvice.org and the Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Centre. For further details and bookings please contact the Engineering Subject Centre.

PlagiarismAdvice.org and nLearning are pleased to announce the first ever Irish Turnitin User Group meeting. It will take place at 2pm on Wednesday 20 May at the National College of Ireland, Dublin, prior to the opening drinks reception of the 10^th EdTech Conference.

The meeting is intended for institutional Administrators of the Turnitin plagiarism detection software, and provides a unique opportunity for sharing good practice and experiences in use and implementation of the software. Previous meetings of the UK group have proved to be a lively and practical exchange of both pedagogical and technical approaches to plagiarism prevention and detection. Read more…

PlagiarismAdvice.org will be exhibiting at the annual JISC Conference on Tuesday 24 March, 2009.

Come and visit us either at the drinks reception on Monday 23 March between 17.30 and 19.00, or during the main conference on stand 45, Strathblane Hall, level 0, in the registration area.

See you there!