Does anyone want any data?

Years ago (when I did a different job) I developed these plagiarism tutorials. There are now 17 of them and between them they've had tens of thousands of views. A while back I made them creative commons so that other people could make their own. Over time I've collected more than 1,000 responses to the questions that formed a survey at the end of the tutorial (the survey is currently bust and I need to fix it, but that's another story). The questions I asked were:

1. Which version of the tutorial did you do?
2. I found this tutorial interesting (1 = strongly agree, 4 = strongly disagree)
3. I found this tutorial easy to use (1 = strongly agree, 4 = strongly disagree)
4. I found this tutorial informative (1 = strongly agree, 4 = strongly disagree)
5. The best bit about the tutorial was...
6. The tutorial could be improved by...

Is this data of use to anyone? I don't have time to analyse it but there might be some interesting stuff in it. Let me know if you want it.

Plagiarism tutorials now creative commons

Nearly three months back I blogged about Making the plagiarism tutorials creative commons. Well, it took a while but they're now finally done. You can see them all here. It probably took about 30 minutes per tutorial to make all the necessary changes, and I just did them one at a time, as I had the time. Hence it taking nearly three months.

Track back to the original post if you want to access the original files.

Making the plagiarism tutorials creative commons

Since my recent Inspired by Shirky post I've decided to make the plagiarism tutorials creative commons. After some very helpful advice from Tania (who's the Copyright Administrator for BDRA's OTTER Project) I've made the following changes to the tutorials to enable me to legitimately add a creative commons license:

• removed the clock animation (that I can't remember where I sourced) and replaced it with a creative commons licensed image;
• removed the screen shots of the various book covers and replaced them with generic ones;
• referenced the definition of plagiarism appropriately (previously the source was merely implied from the screen shot of the dictionary cover).

I've only managed to update the Biological Sciences version so far but I'll be working my way through all of them over the next few weeks.

The creative commons license that I've chosen is Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales. Just to be clear, this means...

You can access the original PowerPoint file here. If you want to republish your own version you'll need Adobe Presenter. But don't forget - attribution, non-commercial, share alike! Also, it would be good to hear from you if you do make your own version.

By the way, this isn't the part 2 to the Shirky post that I promised - that will focus on the video animation format as per the critical student tutorial - and I'll try and write next week.

University Teaching Fellowship

I wasn't blogging when I got this so just for completeness, here it is.

It was mostly for my work on the plagiarism tutorials.

Subject specific online tutorials at Science Learning and Teaching Conference 2009

Here's my poster for the 3rd Science Learning and Teaching Conference. Maybe by next year I'll have something else to talk about other than plagiarism tutorials. Hope so!
Subject-specific online plagiarism tutorials

Developing online tutorials at Teaching and Assessment Network

There are the slides and audio of my Teaching and Assessment Network seminar that I did on 25 March at the University of Leicester. Just putting them here really to kick off this blog as it's Friday afternoon and can't summon up much more energy!

Development of online resources to help students develop their academic skills from Stuart Johnson