Digital plagiarism: An experimental study of the effect of instructional goals and copy-and-paste affordance

Computers and Education

Volumn 83, Issue , 2015, Pages 44-56

  Kauffman, Yashu ^a   Young, Michael F ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Achievement goals; Copy and paste technology; Digital learning; Digital plagiarism; Situated cognition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; COPYING; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY;

ACHIEVEMENT GOALS; COPY-AND-PASTE; DIGITAL PLAGIARISM; DIGITAL-LEARNING; SITUATED COGNITION;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 84920973158     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2014.12.016     Document Type: Article

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