Plagiarism - A Problem And How To Fight It

Hermann Maurer; Bilal Zaka

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 4451–4458

The continued growth of information on the WWW and in databases is making plagiarism by copying, possibly followed by some modification, more and more tempting. Educational institutions are starting to fight this by a bundle of measures: (a) by...

Topics: Educational Technology

Integrating Copy-Paste Checking into an E-Learning Ecosystem

Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer; Bilal Zaka; Denis Helic

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 1779–1786

Today’s educational institutions are plagued with a variety of challenges, which includes the difficulty in establishing a trusting learning environment free from abuses. The Web has brought about a widespread culture of easy-access to all sorts of...

Topics: Culture, Educational Technology

Libraries of Interactive Books as Powerful Tool for Information Communication

Hermann Maurer; Namik Delilovic; Bilal Zaka

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2019 (Jun 24, 2019) pp. 1353–1359

In this paper we argue that by using software that allows to add all kinds of interactions and media to digital books we can create what we will call interactive books (IBs for short) that are attractive to use for many purposes of information...

Topics: Participatory learning and media

Topic-Centered Aggregation of Presentations for Learning Object Repurposing

Bilal Zaka; Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer; Wolf-Tilo Balke; Hermann Maurer

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) pp. 3335–3342

Large collections of learning content, developed using applications such as Microsoft Powerpoint can be found in numerous institutions and organizations. The reusability of such custom-made learning content are however not supported in traditional...