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Chatrooms to lead plagiarism fight.
Byline: Mark Chillingworth
Chatrooms to lead plagiarism fight
Mark Chillingworth
Chatrooms are the backbone of e-learning and can combat plagiarism, experts have revealed. Speaking at an IT Week e-learning seminar, Dr Wassila Naamani Mehanna and Professor Paul Leng revealed to the IWR sister title that information professionals developing e-learning tools should integrate online chat.
"I call discussion boards the backbone of e-learning, and students identify it as a place for information exchange," Dr Mehanna said of the results she found in her latest research, Towards Effective e-learning in UK Higher Education. Of the students surveyed, 96% liked e-learning and accessed e-learning sites provided by their courses between two and 10 times daily, with 50% spending more than an hour on the site.
The greatest benefit of using the e-learning system was the chatroom, as discussions about course work are archived online, while in the lecture theatre they are said and then forgotten. Mehanna ...
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