STUDENT PLAGIARISM BEHAVIOR IN ONLINE TUTORIALS (E-LEARNING UNIVERSITAS TERBUKA)

Abstract

Universitas Terbuka is one of the universities that use an online learning system in its learning system. In online tutorials students must actively participate in learning activities by studying the initiation materials provided, responding to discussions, and doing assignments. Because assignments and discussions are important in assessment, students must respond and do all of them. If you don't do it, it will affect the value. However, sometimes in responding to these discussions and assignments, some students commit plagiarism, either by taking the full answers in the module, taking the answers belonging to their friends, or taking them from the internet. Therefore, this research was conducted in order to analyze the behavior of student plagiarism in this online tutorial. This study uses a qualitative method with a phenomenological approach to explore student plagiarism behavior in online tutorials (case studies on students of the Department of Sociology, FHISIP, Universitas Terbuka). The results of the study show that the reasons for committing plagiarism include getting answers more easily, answering assignments quickly, not finding answers that he thinks are right and getting good grades. Factors that encourage them to plagiarism include not understanding the material, being pressured, not finding answers on their own, and joining friends. In order to avoid plagiarism, among others, by answering according to your own thoughts which are strengthened by the module, citing original sources accompanied by sources and added from your own thoughts after reading the module book, paraphrasing the original source, and checking on the plagiarism platform.