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Well we've got to edition 6 of Sounds of the Bazaar. And
its a bumper issue.

This is a holding post - full 'sleeve notes' to follow.

In this edition:

Graham Attwell on Plagiarism.

On September 12, the Observer said: "One of Britain's newest universities has found more than 200 students guilty of cheating after it launched a crackdown on what university officials admit is one of the biggest problems they face.

Using a computer program to catch students trying to pass off others' work as their own - often simply 'cut-and-pasted' from the internet - Coventry University discovered that 237 students had broken the rules. As a result, seven were expelled from the university, while another 12 cases are pending."

Are all these people really cheating.

On 12 September the Guardian reported: "The National Union of Students (NUS), vice-president, Wes Streeting, is becoming familiar with the problem. "We are coming across an increasing number of cases where students have been accused of plagiarism when it's not obvious that the accusation is justified," he says.

"A big problem is that students are not being told what plagiarism is, or how to avoid it. Students may be referencing an author in the bibliography, but not in footnotes. We are also being told of huge differences in the way that departments within the same university are dealing with the issue."

Graham Attwell suggests the idea and meaning of plagiarism is a social construct.

Alexandra Toedt on the development of the Illias VLE

Alexandra Toedt talks about the development fo the Illias Virtual Learning Envionment and claims prior art over Blackboard! She discusses models for sustainability for Open Source Software in education.

Web site of the Week - Steve Denning's site on story telling

Stories communicate ideas holistically, conveying a rich yet clear message, and so they are an excellent way of communicating complicated ideas and concepts in an easy-to-understand form.Stories therefore allow people to convey tacit knowledge that might otherwise be difficult to articulate; in addition, because stories are told with feeling, they can allow people to communicate more than they realise they know.

Steve Denning's web site explores the use of story telling for learning and knowledge sharing.

Hans Werner Franz on teaching and learning

Hans Werner Franz is an experienced researcher and trainer. In this interview he talks about his approach to training managers in Small and Medium Enterprises, through authentic lerning activities and projects in the workplace.

Listen to the full edition
Introduction to this edition
Graham Attwell's rant on plagiarism in education
Alexandra Toedt on the development of the Illius Open Source VLE
Web site of the Week - Steve Denning on storytelling
Hans Werner Franz talks about Teaching and Learning
End notes to this weeks programme

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