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Social Media Enabled Contract Cheating - Canadian Symposium On Academic Integrity - Calgary - 18 April 2019
Dr. Thomas Lancaster's presentation discusses the rise of contract cheating in academic settings, particularly how the industry utilizes social media for marketing and outreach. It explores recent developments in the contract cheating market, including tactics like fake university groups and exploitative advertisements targeting students. The talk emphasizes the need for the academic integrity community to respond effectively to this growing issue, highlighting the importance of including students in the dialogue and continuing research on this topic.
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- 1. Social Media Enabled ContractCheating Dr Thomas Lancaster http://thomaslancaster.co.uk Canadian Symposium on Academic Integrity Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary Thursday, 18 April 2019
- 2. Alternative Title Concerning contract cheatingindustry developments that you might not be aware of!
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- 4. Dr Thomas Lancaster ComputerScientist at Imperial College London, UK Regular speaker, researcher, blogger and media contributor on academic integrity subjects ‘Discovered’ contract cheating – students using a third party to create work for assessment for them
- 5. Useful Sources My Blog http://thomaslancaster.co.uk/blog MySlide Archive https://www.slideshare.net/thomaslancaster (including slides from this presentation)
- 6. My research in recentyears… essay spinningwho are the academic ghost writers? student employability social media use in higher education plagiarism detection software essay mill marketing academic integrity contract cheating integrity in South East Europe
- 7. My research in recentyears… essay spinningwho are the academic ghost writers? student employability social media use in higher education plagiarism detection software essay mill marketing academic integrity contract cheating integrity in South East Europe
- 8. Contract Cheating QuestionsTo Consider How is the contract cheating industry using social media as part of their operation? What can we discover about contract cheating based on social media posts? This presentation includes examples from physical advertising, online advertising and social media (lots of Canadian examples) Full paper submitted to Canadian Perspectives on Academic Integrity (with largely different examples)
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- 10. Social Media – TheTeaching and Learning Community
- 11. Tweeting Encouraged (this isa session on social media) @DrLancaster #contractcheating #2019integritysymposium
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- 13. Recent New Stories Newsstories in February and April 2019
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- 15. Hundreds Of AcademicWriters Responded On Social Media!
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- 17. A Substantial andPervasive Market
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- 19. Contract Cheating Providersin Toronto (July 2018)
- 20. Contract Cheating Service Marketing (the 2019way) setting up fake university WhatsApp groups, pretending to be fellow students paying for space at Student Union Welcome Fairs distributing flyers with university logos to look like official services getting “tutor” contracts with universities, supposedly to support students with individual needs Getting access to student VLE accounts, so as to market directly to other students
- 21. Contract Cheating Service Marketing (the 2019way) setting up fake university WhatsApp groups, pretending to be fellow students paying for space at Student Union Welcome Fairs distributing flyers with university logos to look like official services getting “tutor” contracts with universities, supposedly to support students with individual needs Getting access to student VLE accounts, so as to market directly to other students Using social media as part of their end-to- end marketing approach
- 22. 1924 page likes “100%no plagiarism is guaranteed...@mastersessay will write any essay for you no matter what subject it is” Advertising on Social Media Facebook Twitter
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- 29. Ottawa, Ontario -15 likes - 31 replies “An MBA student at N.Y.U and expert in academic work. I am the solution to your academic needs.” “I'm willing to help do the essay for you at a cheap price between $6-9 per page that we both agree, it will be plagiarism- free, in good time, and an excellent grade is assured. Just DM the instructions” “Don't worry about the due date or topic/subject of your assignment. I'm a legit & time-conscious writer who will get you an A+ grade in your coursework.” “hell yeah. can you send me the rubric?”
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- 32. Contract Cheating Services –The Writers
- 33. Contract Cheating Provider Essaymill Individual contract cheating worker profile Affiliate site (and many others) social media properties marketing to students social media properties marketing to writers community of students direct engagement social media engagement community of writers social media engagement direct engagement
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- 37. Encouraging Individuals ToLook For Contract Cheating Industry Work
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- 41. Some essay millsboast about the work they’re doing
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- 45. Buy A Business? Source:Craigslist
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- 50. We can learna lot about the contract cheating industry from social media
- 51. We are makingprogress as an international academic integrity community – but we need to address a sophisticated contract cheating industry
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- 53. The contract cheating industrytakes advantage of the holes in university processes at sector and institutional level
- 54. At the international level,our interventions may have unintended ethical consquences
- 55. The academic integrity community goes beyond thephysical space
- 56. We need tocontinue to research and discuss the contract cheating industry and how it engages with students
- 57. We need toinclude students as valued partners in our academic integrity community
- 58. But, What Next? Thecontract cheating industry monitors us - and the industry has a vested interest in addressing our responses! Times Higher Education – April 2019
- 59. Connect With Me MyEmail: thomas@thomaslancaster.co.uk My Website: http://thomaslancaster.co.uk My Blog: http://thomaslancaster.co.uk/blog My LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/thomaslancaster My Twitter: @DrLancaster Slide Archive: http://www.slideshare.net/ThomasLancaster