Eric Gibbs, President, Americas of Ouriginal, joins this episode of Illuminate Higher Education to talk about how his company supports students, instructors, and educational institutions to maintain academic integrity and create original, innovative content through text-matching and writing style analysis.

Eric begins by offering a brief history of plagiarism-detection software, but notes that “plagiarism detection” is a misnomer. Ouriginal goes beyond looking for “copied and pasted” phrases and compares learning artifacts to a vast database of scholarly journals and other repositories to search for trends and reduce false positives.

Eric and Kiran also discuss the challenges students face under pressure, and why it is so much easier to cheat in today’s digital age. Most academic institutions address cheating, plagiarism, or other attempts at academic dishonesty with punitive measures after the fact; Eric believes that Ouriginal can help students and colleges prioritize creativity and originality, as well as ensuring that a college degree maintains its value.

After you listen, connect with Eric Gibbs on LinkedIn or Twitter @IPValidation. Learn more about Ouriginal by visiting Ouriginal.com and following @Ouriginal_O on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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