Abstract
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of online learning has increased. Inherently, the stakes of a sustainable approach to the challenges raised by the wide access to the Internet, the use of readymade solutions to meet didactical tasks, and students’ appetite for plagiarism have become higher. These challenges can be sustainably managed via a procedure aimed at constructively converting students’ appetite for plagiarism (SAP conversion) into a skill of critically approaching relevant materials that are available online. The solutions proposed by the specialized literature concerned with the problem of plagiarism can be grouped into five categories: better trained students, more involved teachers, the use of anti-plagiarism software, clear anti-plagiarism policies, and ethical education of the youths. The SAP conversion procedure is a solution targeting increased involvement on behalf of teachers. Its partial application in the case of the disciplines included in the undergraduate educational program of Sociology conducted by the Transylvania University of Brasov, where students’ evaluation is based on essays, has considerably decreased the amount of student plagiarism.
Highlights
Learning contributes to knowledge perpetuation, and the latter supports community sustainable development by making previous experiences resulting from interaction with the world useful
We grouped the solutions by taxonomies, and we present them considering that they are useful for adopting various local and context-based strategies to solve/control the problem of student plagiarism
The recalibration we explicitly propose as a means to approach the problem of plagiarism implicitly diminishes the effects of acknowledging the sources of the readymade solutions
Summary
Learning contributes to knowledge perpetuation, and the latter supports community sustainable development by making previous experiences resulting from interaction with the world useful. At the same time, learning is a self-accomplishment tool and, as such, a goal of sustainable development. The future of communities and their members greatly depends on the way the learning processes foreshadow them in the present. There is always a stake in the changes performed in the educational field. They must be assessed based on their outcomes at the generational level. The Internet has recently acquired a widely acknowledged didactical utility [1,2,3], given its rather short history. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the true dimensions and importance of the Internet in conducting educational processes. Access to resources that were available online was synonymous with access to training
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