QQI and NAIN endorse Academic Integrity Webinar Series from Bournemouth University
QQI and NAIN were pleased to be invited to endorse a thought-provoking series of online webinars from Bournemouth University tailored to address critical issues in academic integrity, particularly in light of emerging technologies such as Generative AI.
Designed to provide cutting-edge insights and practical strategies for researchers and educators navigating the evolving academic landscape, the schedule includes presenters such as Dr Robin Crockett, Dr Tricia Bertram Gallant and Professor David Rettinger exploring topics such as:
AI detectors: At best, buying us a little time to get our act together?
Thursday 6th March 2025 3 – 4pm GMT
AI 'writers' – chatbots – continue to improve and the text-quality continues to get closer to human equivalence, posing more questions about AI-text detectors. When human equivalence is attained, AI detectors will be faced with the impossibility of distinguishing between typical/aggregate human text and AI-generated text which precisely matches it. This presentation will focus on this progression and what we can do in the meantime.
Presenter: Dr Robin Crockett (MA MSc MPhil PhD FHEA CSci CMath MIMA) is the Academic Integrity Lead at the University of Northampton, UK.
Future-proofing Academic Integrity
New technologies can send educators and policymakers into a tizz about academic cheating. It happened with the internet and it's happening again with artificial intelligence. In this session we will focus on how to maintain our humanity when thinking about what it means to teach, learn, and assess with integrity. A key takeaway from this talk is how inclusion, equity and human rights can guide our approaches to academic misconduct and promote ethical decision-making for everyone in our learning community.
Presenter: Professor Sarah Elaine Eaton is a Professor and Research Chair in the Werklund School of Education and Chair, Leadership, Policy, and Governance specialization area. She holds a concurrent appointment as an Honorary Associate Professor, Deakin Learning Futures, Deakin University, Australia.
What Can GenAI Tell Us About Why Students Cheat?
Thursday March 20th 2025 2 – 3pm
The problem of why students cheat is one of the most studied in academic integrity. Thomas will discuss how he has used GenAI to help to process existing knowledge, and will share the 5 I’s Framework which classifies factors that contribute to academic misconduct as Internal, Interpersonal, Institutional, Instructional, and Ideological, helping to demonstrate that there are multiple factors which the educational community need to address to help students to always operate with academic integrity.
Presenter: Dr Thomas Lancaster, Principal Teaching Fellow in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London and the Senior Tutor for MSc students in that Department.
The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI
Wednesday 26th March 2025 4 – 5pm
Join a transformative session focused on integrity in education that will explore research insights into why students engage in cheating and discuss effective strategies to address these challenges.
Attendees will be inspired to rethink responses to cheating—before, during, and after it occurs—creating a more honest and supportive academic environment for everyone.
Presenters: Tricia Bertram Gallant, Ph.D. is the Director of Academic Integrity Office and Triton Testing Center at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), Board Emeritus of the International Center for Academic Integrity, and former lecturer for both UCSD and the University of San Diego. David Rettinger, Ph.D., has taught psychology at the college level for more than 20 years, including at the University of Mary Washington where he holds the title of professor emeritus. He is an expert in students’ academic integrity behavior, having published research in Theory into Practice, Research in Higher Education, Ethics and Behavior, and Psychological Perspectives on Academic Cheating.
Deep-Fake it ‘til you Make it?” Academic Integrity in the Age of Synthetic Media
Friday 4th April 2025 10 – 11 am
Picture this: You're grading a student's video presentation when something feels off. The delivery is perfect - too perfect. Could this be a deepfake? In an era where AI can convincingly replicate anyone's face and voice, how do we maintain academic integrity?
Drawing on our research and recent cases, this presentation explores how deepfake technology might be reshaping academic integrity, what do educators feel about this, and how HEIs might support them in managing these challenges. From practical detection strategies to policy recommendations, we'll examine how institutions can adapt to these new technologies without compromising academic standards.
Presenters: Assoc. Prof. Mike Perkins heads the Centre for Research & Innovation at British University Vietnam, where he leads GenAI policy integration at BUV and trains Vietnamese educators and policymakers on this topic. Dr. Jasper Roe is an Assistant Professor in Digital Literacies and Pedagogies at Durham University, UK. Jasper is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a digital educationalist and academic leader, with a research and teaching portfolio spanning Generative Artificial Intelligence, Education, Academic Integrity, Sociology and Discourse Analysis.
