Plagiarism prevention, research based teaching, reading lists and Oxford

Follow-up to The positive reason to care about plagiarism (and why Warwick is great) from Transversality - Robert O'Toole

And we are, of course, not the only institution that cares about this. Yesterday I went to Oxford for a one day conference on reading lists. The division between institutions with a transmissive/instructional approach and those, like Warwick, with a research based approach, was stark. The transmissive/instructional approach sees reading lists as the sole property of the academic and the library. At the start of a course they transmit a list of readings to the students, who consume each book in turn. Within research-based teaching, the reading list is seen as a set of suggestions that must be analysed, extended, critiqued and synthesised by the student. The aim is for them to develop their own reading list, their own bibliography, in the same way as any academic would.

Howard Noble, of the Oxford University Learning Technology Group did a presentation of a project that he is working on to create a generic resource list building tool, to be used by both staff and students. The rationale behind this seems to research based teaching. Interestingly, the LTG have also taken an interest in plagiarism . I have realised that we have much more in common with them, and much less in common with the majority of the UK HE community. I shall develop these links (I have several contacts in the group already).

Also, more on Howard's project when i can find the url!

Robert O'Toole : 10 Sep 2004 08:29 |  Tags: E-Learning Warwick University |  Comments (1) |  Report a problem