Plagscan: Plagiarism and Contract Cheating: How to Tackle Omnipresent Threats to Education Systems With Software

With the progression of globalisation and digitalisation, the ways students access knowledge and learn are quite different compared to 20 years ago. Not only is there an unlimited supply of data and resources online, but the growing amount of anonymous contract cheaters or 'academic ghostwriters' are endangering students' future. This session highlights issues such as:
- What threatens the capacity of earning a degree from a student's perspective?
- How professors, teachers and instructors can ensure that the education system stays equal and fair?
- What the chances and limitations of software solutions in modern education systems are?

Verena Kunz-Gehrmann

PlagScan GmbH, Germany

Verena is one of PlagScan's global advocates for Academic Integrity. With her extensive background in developing brand and marketing for IT companies around the globe, she is constantly working on increasing awareness for the growing threat towards fair and equal education standards. In her position as Chief Marketing Officer at PlagScan, Verena passionately promotes the opportunities that edtech softwares provide: The chance for each student to develop into the best version of themselves regardless of their backgrounds.