Monday 19 – Friday 23 October 2020
Ireland's inaugural National Academic Integrity Week took place in the week of Monday 19th October 2020 for five days. The programme of 14 online events shared guidance and best practice in upholding and cultivating academic integrity, including issues arising from academic misconduct and cheating, showcasing the voices of teaching and learning practitioners, as well as those of students themselves.
The programme, curated by Quality and Qualifications Ireland in collaboration with the National Academic Integrity Network (NAIN), included webinars organised and hosted by Irish higher education institutions and agencies. The week also featured events organised by the European Network for Academic Integrity (ENAI) and the International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI) as part of International Day against Contract Cheating in which Ireland is took part for the first time.
Please see the programme below with the links to the recordings or slides for at the end of each session description. Where the session wasn t recorded, this is also stated.
Programme of Events
Monday 19 October
11:00 – 12:00
| Student Role in Raising the Right Kind of Awareness for Integrity and Against Contract Cheating Host: The European Network for Academic Integrity (ENAI) Moderator: Dr Zeenath Khan, University of Wollongong Dubai This panel discussion with higher education students promises to unfold the possibilities and bring students to the forefront of the conversation to find out how students can and do play a role in actively raising the right kind of awareness towards integrity and against contract cheating. For most educators, it is of paramount importance that we are able to instil in our students values of academic integrity, to help students stay away from such misconducts as contract cheating, and thus, cultivate a culture of integrity in our classrooms. However, more often our conversation happens "over" and "around" the students - the most important stakeholder of academic integrity. Sure, lack of integrity raises doubts on our quality of teaching, devalues the degrees - but the vast majority of the impact lies at the feet of students, intentional, unintentional and bystanders. While all students don't cheat or contract cheat, most students are aware of others who have engaged in contracting others to do their work, as silent observers of the act being committed. This often has dire consequences and implications for the bystanders too - from demotivation, to agitation to aggression and sometimes motivation. So, what would happen if students were part of the dialogue? What would happen if students played a bigger role in raising the right kind of awareness for integrity and against contract cheating? The webinar recording is available here.
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Tuesday 20 October
11:00 - 12:00
| Where is the borderline of plagiarism?
Host: The European Network for Academic Integrity (ENAI)
Presenters: Dr Tomáš Foltýnek and Dr Dita Dlabolová, Mendel University, Brno, Czech Republic The workshop is a mixture of information, activities to make participants think about the issues and discussions. It also presents results from European-wide surveys about plagiarism. Participants are encouraged to share their personal experience. We will talk about the understanding of plagiarism, discuss several scenarios and assess their severity. We will also consider reasons leading students to plagiarism, and discuss prevention, and also the policies and penalties which are a necessary part of prevention. As for prevention, we will share the best practices collected in the European-wide project. In the end, a brief introduction to the technical aspects of plagiarism detection will be given: what are the plagiarism detection tools able to discover, where are their limits and how to read similarity reports. The webinar recording is available here.
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15:00 - 16:00
| Academic Integrity in the post-truth, fake news era
Host: Athlone Institute of Technology
Presenter: Dr Kevin O’Rourke, Digital Campus Architect, TU Dublin In this guest lecture, Dr O' Rourke will highlight a number of new challenges in relation to academic integrity with particular reference to the global explosion of fake news and fake information. The webinar was not recorded. The presentation slides can be found here. |
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Wednesday 21 October
12:30 - 13:30
| Explorations in Academic Integrity
Host: Dundalk Institute of Technology
Presenters: Dr Moira Maguire, Head of Learning and Teaching; Dr Colletta Dalikeni, School of Business and Humanities; Dr Kevin Howard, School of Business and Humanities; Mr Christoper O’ Neill, DkIT Students Union Vice-President for Student Engagement This webinar will be a conversation exploring Academic Integrity from a wide variety of perspectives: academics, students and representatives from the Institute’s Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT).
Due to the nature of the panel discussion, this event was not recorded. DkIT Library maintains an online resource that was, however, discussed on the day.
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15:00 - 16:00
| Academic Integrity Student Webinar Presenters: Hibernia College Academic Integrity Team Hibernia College, as part of the Oct 21st International Day of Academic Integrity, will hold a webinar exploring how we can commit to and demonstrate honest and moral behaviour in an academic setting. Please note that, in the course of this presentation an error was identified in the slide 'Blackmail' with respect to a reference. The correct reference may be found here. The webinar recording is available here. |
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16:00 - 17:00
| Fostering Academic Integrity in the Classroom National Academic Integrity Network Webinar Series Host: Quality and Qualifications Ireland Presenter: Dr Tricia Bertram Gallant, Director, Academic Integrity Office, University of California San Diego In the 2nd National Academic Integrity Network webinar, Dr Bertram Gallant, an internationally recognised expert on integrity and ethics in education, will focus on what teachers can do in their classrooms to foster academic integrity with their groups of learners, incorporating principles and approaches to academic integrity into their programme design, pedagogy, and teaching and learning methodology. If you missed this event, you can watch it back here.
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17:15 - 18:00
| The Ethics of Academic Integrity
Host: Dublin City University
Presenters: Mohammad Hoseini, School of Theology, Philosophy & Music; Caitlin Grant, Student Union Humanities & Social Sciences Rep; Billy Kelly, DCU Dean of Teaching and Learning Chair: Dr Fiona O’Riordan, Academic Developer, Teaching Enhancement Unit The aim of this panel discussion is to reframe the discourse around academic integrity from a policy-driven punitive approach to a sense of personal responsibility driven by our own internal moral compass. Due to the nature of the panel discussion, it was not recorded. |
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Thursday 22 October
11:00 - 12:00
| The COVID-19 Teacher Qualification - Promoting Academic Integrity for teaching and learning during the pandemic Host: European Network for Academic Integrity Panel Members: Valerie P. Denney, DBA, (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, US); Mustafa Yunus Eryaman, PhD, (President of The World Education Research Association); Canakkale Onsekiz (Mart University, Turkey); Inga Gaizauskaite, (Lithuanian Social Research Centre & Vilnius University, Lithuania); Salim Razı, PhD; Canakkale Onsekiz (Mart University, Turkey); Fiona O'Riordan, PhD (Dublin City University); Camilla J Roberts, PhD (Kansas State University, ICAI President) Moderator: Sonja Bjelobaba, PhD (ENAI Vice-president, Uppsala University, Sweden) The COVID-19 pandemic has been a challenge for us all – not least for teachers that in many cases were forced to overnight start teaching online. The lectures, seminars, assessments, meetings: everything has moved onto different online platforms. Nonetheless, academic integrity and its values were to be sustained. What are the lessons learned? How well did we do? What experiences and best practices can we share with each other? How can we design online assessments in a way that decreases misconduct such as plagiarism, contract cheating, and collusion? Those are some of the questions that will be discussed in this webinar with teachers from several different countries, including Ireland. The panel discussion recording is available here. |
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12:30 - 13:30
| Promoting Academic Integrity through Robust Assessment Design Presenter: Dr Laura Costelloe (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick) Dr Costelloe will speak on a range of strategies and tools for educators to promote academic integrity via assessment design. The talk is being offered as part of CCT College Dublin's Excellence in Teaching Series which includes internal and external speakers from across the sector with the aim of promoting sectoral discourse on a range of key topics. Listen back to this event here. |
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Friday 23 October
11:00 - 12:00
| Building your own ethical behaviours in medical research Host: European Network of Academic Integrity Presenter: Dr S D Sivasubramaniam (University of Derby, United Kingdom) This case study-based workshop is suited for graduate, doctoral and post-doctoral researchers in the fields of science and medicine. It will focus on ethical behaviour and integrity in every aspect of scientific/medical research. Many of these case studies were gathered from actual real-life experiences of students and academics. Participants are expected to interact with each other by discussing the scenarios provided to conclude the right approach and actions suitable for each scenario. In this way, participants may gain greater knowledge and experience in ethical behaviour in research. The webinar recording is available here.
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