Presentation GREATLX Conference Frutuoso Silva on plagiarism by universidade da beira interior

1. Initiative GREAT European Development Partners Co-organization
Plagiarism
Frutuoso SILVA

2. Plagiarism prevention: a serious
game under development
Andreia Ferreira and Frutuoso Silva
Regain Group
University of Beira Interior
Portugal
Plagiarism Plagiarism

3. Outline
 Motivation
 Related work
 Gamagio – our game
 Conclusions
 Future work

4. Motivation
 Plagiarism is a serious problem (e.g. in university
assignments).
 Nowadays, most of the students play video
games.
 Game-based learning approach could be a good
tool to support the learning process.

5. Motivation
 To prevent the plagiarism.
 Teaching this subject in an entertaining way.
 We propose a serious game to informing the
students about the plagiarism.

6. Idea
Students
more
informed
PlagiarismReduce

7. Related work
 Lycoming College [3]
 A game that it main goal is to find hidden "plagiarism
goblins".
 When the player clicks in the goblin he/she is asked
a question.

8. Related work
 Northern Illinois University [4]
 Two games:
 1- An interactive questionnaire where the player needs to
choose the correct answer within eight different possibilities;
 2- The player needs to click in the red button of the crane
with the appropriate response;

9. Related work
 Rutgers University Libraries [5]
Like a tv show
where the player
interacts;
Divided in three
parts;

10. Gamagio – our game
 It is a simple platform game
the aim is winning the greatest amount of points
possible;
collecting entities and answering rightly to the
questions;
 It runs on web browsers that support WebGL.

11. Gamagio – our game
 The questions about the plagiarism are
randomly presented during the game.
 It is an ongoing project yet.
 But, a preliminary version is already available
online at
http://regain.it.ubi.pt/Gamagio/

12. Gamagio – our game
 Now only available in Portuguese;

13. Gamagio – our game
Screenshots

14. Gamagio – our game
Screenshots

15. Conclusions
 We created a simple platform game to teach
students what plagiarism is.
It has two parts: the game and the questionnaire.
 The knowledge of the students about the
plagiarism is reduced.
 The game is available in different platforms
Then available to wide range of students.

16. Future work
Improve the design of the game
Character, backgrounds, entities, …
Implementation of lives for player, save
the scores, …
Testing and validating the game with
students;

17. References
[1] Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Plagiarize.
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/ plagiarize, 2011.
[2] Plagiarism.org. Types of plagiarism. http://plagiarism.org/plagiarism-
101/types-of- plagiarism/.
[3] Mary Broussard and Jessica Urich. Plagiarism game.
http://www.lycoming.edu/library/instruction/tutorials/.
[4] Northern Illinois University. Plagiarism - games.
http://www.niu.edu/ai/students/section05/games/index .htm, 2005.
[5] Rutgers University Libraries. The cite is right.
http://library.camden.rutgers.edu/EducationalModule/Plagiarism/.

18. Questions?
Frutuoso Silva
fsilva@di.ubi.pt
http://regain.it.ubi.pt
Plagiarism Plagiarism

19. Associated Partners
Media Partners
Sponsors
GREAT European Development Partners
Institutional Partners

20. http://www.projectgreat.eu