Higher Education Whisperer

Essay Mill Website Before Ban Websites which offer to write assignments for students are now banned under Australian law . The first example...

I  have been looking at which online tools could be used for students to create a logbook to   Show-Your-Work . The Mahara Journal looked pr...

Dr Alisa James I  have been looking at how to use tools such as Microsoft Word in Office 365,  Mahara Journals, or Git for students to have ...

Is anyone using Mahara Journals for students to provide evidence of having work over days or weeks ? Robert Lyon hinted at this, when he wro...

Like many, it appears my students will be studying away from the face to face classroom again in 2021, at least for the first part of the ye...

October 21 is the International Day of Action Against Contract Cheating , according to the International Center for Academic Integrity. Univ...

This week I had a curious email from an essay writing service proposing to pay me to promote their activities through this blog. From readi...

Rowland, Slade, Wong and Whiting (2018) looked at what attracts students to websites offering to write their assignments for them (so calle...

Amigud et al . (2017) tested using machine-learning to identify what work is not by a student. The AI system is "trained" using ...

" An Australian guide to the risk management of VET online e-assessment "  has been released, this followed an enquiry ., which in...

Dr McComas Taylor , is reported to have said that some international students were "functionally illiterate" (" Higher educ...

I noted an advertisement placed on my Blog by Google for a "Free Check for Plagiarism". This was a little misleading as it was act...

Recently I was trying out the TurnItIn  plagiarism detection software. So I fed in a plagiarism policy from a leading university, which sho...

Athabasca University (AU) have an introductory course for new students, before starting their first regular course. This provides an overvi...