A new paper reports that the prevalence of cheating among online students is much less than among on-campus students. The study also highlights the danger of distance and disengagement for online students and staff resulting in erroneous perceptions of the relative frequency of cheating among these cohorts.
A logical fallacy that students plagiarise because of a desire to cheat and deceive and therefore why we should use plagiarism detection tools such as Turnitin in formative ways.
Claire Guthrie's thesis on plagiarism and comparing Waikato to another study. Found that low levels of plagiarism were under reported at the student discipline committee.
Interesting article on plagiarism in computer science, with a suggestion that this is the fault of teaching design and that students are just playing the game.