Monday 19 – Friday 23 October 2020
Ireland’s inaugural National Academic Integrity Week will take place from Monday 19 to Friday 23 October 2020. This programme of 14 online events aims to share 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), will include webinars organised and hosted by Irish higher education institutions and agencies. The week will also feature 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 taking part for the first time.
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 More details and registration are available here. 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? |
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. More details and registration are 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. Register in advance 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).
Register in advance here. |
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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. Register in advance 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. Register in advance 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. Register in advance here. |
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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. More details and registration are 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. Register in advance 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. More details and registration are available here. |
