This short set of slides come from a presentation I delivered (remotely) for the University of Calgary as part of the 3rd International Day of Action Against Contract Cheating. They look at the opportunities there are for everyone to get involved with promoting academic integrity.

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Contract Cheating In Canada
Dr. Thomas Lancaster
http://thomaslancaster.co.uk
University of Calgary
Wednesday 17 October 2018
Part of the International Day of Action
Against Contract Cheating

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Computer Scientist
PhD in Plagiarism(!)
Senior Teaching
Fellow at Imperial
College London, UK
Invented Contract
Cheating in 2006
(with Robert Clarke)

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Why Are We Worried About
Contract Cheating?

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International projections are
that 1 in 7 students will contract
cheat during their degree
A student who uses
someone else to do
their assessments
typically contract
cheats many timesStudents who speak English
as a second language at risk
Newton P. (2018). How Common Is Commercial Contract Cheating in Higher Education and Is It Increasing? A Systematic
Review. Front. Educ. 3:67. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2018.00067
Clarke, R. and Lancaster, T. (2006). Eliminating the successor to plagiarism? Identifying the usage of contract cheating sites.
In Proceedings of 2nd International Plagiarism Conference.
Bretag, T., Harper, R., Burton, M., Ellis, C., Newton, P., Rozenberg, P., Saddiqui, S. and van Haeringen, K. (2018).
Contract cheating: a survey of Australian university students. Studies in Higher Education, pp.1-20.

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Contract Cheating Is A Problem
in Calgary (and Canada)!

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Canada is a big market for
contract cheating

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The Essay Affiliates (Blackhat)

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Companies
Aggressive
In Offering
“Support”

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“leave your place and have some fun”

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“I have helped hundreds of students”

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Toronto, Canada
(some of the six companies I found advertising
around a university campus, July 2018)

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Allowing
contract
cheating is
just not fair
to anyone

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What Can Be Done?

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https://libguides.gsmlondon.ac.uk/defeatthecheat
"With your integrity at stake, you must
defeat your inner cheat..."

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Join the international
movement and show your
support for academic integrity
#defeatthecheat
#excelwithintegrity
Thanks to the many contributors on Twitter on 17 October 2018