Developing and disseminating learning resources
Topic: Publishing curriculum and learning materials
How do issues of originality and plagiarism play out in the creation of commercially published learning materials?
This topic is designed to help you improve:
- your understanding of the academic integrity issues that can open up when you engage in commercial publishing of learning materials
- your skills in recognising and negotiating proper attribution for all contributors in the creation of commercially published learning materials
In this topic, you are asked to exercise academic integrity in the role you play in a textbook publishing project.
Further reading on this topic:
Johnston, R. (2000). Authors, editors, and authority in the postmodern academy. Antipode, 32(3), 271-291.
Uses a study of geography textbooks to explore the idea that “our practices as teacher-producers, and particularly as teacher-consumers using materials produced and published by others, have not been brought into line with what we do as researcher-producers” (p.271).
World Association of Medical Editors. (2004). Self-plagiarism of textbook chapters. Retrieved June 1, 2006 from http://www.wame.org/ethics-resources/self-plagiarism-of-textbook-chapters
"Are textbooks less original science, or less scholarly, than original research articles published in peer-reviewed journals?" (p.5 of 7)
Overview | Compiling learning materials for your students | Using students' work as a teaching resource
Publishing curriculum and learning materials | Authoring reusable learning objects