2.11+Facilitators+Guide

Facilitators Guide

** Facilitator’s Guide **
 * Introduction:** The Harrisburg University of Science and Technology is an academic institution of higher education offering academics in mathematics, science, and technology. The university requires copyright and plagiarism awareness training for entry level students at both the undergraduate and graduate level. With internet and technology rapidly changing, Harrisburg University seeks to familiarize students with the proper way to reference writing and media in essays, blogs, podcasts, wikis and other mediums.
 * Your Role:** The course will be administered and evaluated by the campus librarian or representative (course facilitator). Each student will be required to receive plagiarism training during their first year at HU. The facilitator will keep plagiarism records and signed pledge forms on file should a plagiarism incidence occur. HU will pull student pledge forms as a documentation to support any disciplinary decisions. The facilitator will keep a plagiarism journal of requests from professors to check on suspected plagiarism.
 * Session Guidelines**: The primary audiences entering Harrisburg University are urban college freshman. Both genders are proportionately represented. The delivery strategy will be blended learning. An attention getting e-learning module short will be incorporated into a classroom power point presentation in order to motivate learners to properly cite resources. Hand-outs will include resources to ensure the students future success. Students will be walked through the school website so they can access additional resources. A 15 minute small group activity will follow the 12:30 minute Power Point training presentation. Formative assessments will incorporate whole class match question and answer sessions. The 15 minute game show will follow the e-learning module objective order while incorporating student results from the small group activities throughout.
 * Intended Learners:** The campus librarian will provide the plagiarism training course as a guest speaker during freshman composition courses. All incoming students that are not required to take a composition class will take the course at a separate time in the library or over the internet.
 * Classroom Logistics**: A minimum number of students will be four and a maximum number of students will be 36 for any plagiarism training class so that the instructor will be able to individually assess students for subject matter comprehension difficulty. A standard classroom with projector capacity for a power point presentation should be used as the facilitator will be visiting classrooms already in session, this should not pose as a problem. Students can sit where they like and move into small groups during the small group activity.
 * Pre-class Instructions:** Master handout instructions are located under the learner handout tab. A copy of each of the handouts should be given to all students and the instructor. Plagiarism training should be negotiated before the beginning of the semester with the targeted classes. A reminder e-mail to the class professor and head count request should be taken a week before training. The facilitator is to prepare facilitator printables and handouts (see below). Printables are also available on the enclosed CD.

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