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March 22, 2012 5:00 pm

U of A science students take issue with new ‘plagiarism checker’

Student union raises concerns over presumption of guilt damaging relationship between instructors, pupils

Text-matching technology is currently under scrutiny at the University of Alberta. The department of biological sciences’ mandatory plagiarism checker is inciting controversy after the department decided to go ahead with the technology, leaving students unhappy with the lack of communication about the service.

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    New Mozilla add-on shows who’s tracking you

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  • February 16, 2012 2:10 pm

    Google’s new privacy policy

    Late last month, Google announced its plans to amalgamate their many privacy policies into one unified document starting March 1. The new policy changes are presented as a take-it-or-leave-it option from Google.

  • January 27, 2012 10:40 am

    Escaping the technology loop

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  • December 9, 2011 4:42 pm

    Wikipedia increasingly used as a teaching tool in university classrooms

    University of Alberta professors are using Wikipedia on a trial basis as a new form of written assignment for students. Professors say the Wikipedia assignments give student work a larger readership and an e-portfolio they can use when job hunting after graduation.

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