EUSEA-iCONNEC

 

The 1st Panel Workshop: iCONNECT for EU-SEA e-Plagiarism Battle is hosted at Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia between 23rd – 26th June 2015. There were 15 invited participants who attended the workshop, including  3 invited speakers from EU and 4 invited speakers from SEA. In total of 7 universities and 2 industries were participating in the workshop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The first day of workshop is chaired by the EU Connect2Sea project leader, Gill Rowell from iParadigms Europe and official with a welcoming speech by the Acting head of School, Associate Professor Dr Chai Siang Piao from Monash University Malaysia.

 

The first invited presentation is about the innovative and leading software, “Turnitin worldwide, past, present and future”, by Mr James Thorley from iParadigms Europe. The industrial challenges as well as the global experience of Turnitin research and development in the past decade are articulated.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The presentation is followed by the “Plagiarism Battle in the EU: academic integrity maturity profiles for 27 EU countries” by Gill Rowell , “Plagiarism Issues and Challenges in Indonesia” by Dr Bagus Siaputray and “Thou Shall Not Steal – Plagiarism Issues and Challenges in Singapore” by Lee Yen Han.

 

After the engaging presentations from EU and SEA collaborators, a break up group discussion about the the current challenges and practices for e-plagiarism battle in EU and SEA were facilitated by Dr Chew Esyin. It is interesting to find out that many of the educational organisations are facing similar challenges  and strong demand for not only an ICT solution for e-plagiarism battle, but the policy, best practices and awareness raising with the relevant stakeholders such as Government Bodies, University Management Team, Blended learning / e-Learning Leaders and educators.

 

Delegates gained a better understanding, as they drew parallels and learned about the issues as well as solution towards plagiarism, in the different countries represented at the workshop. The first day workshop ended with a networking reception and dinner.