Upcoming events
Embracing or Resisting? Unpacking Faculty and Student Reactions to Generative AI in Higher Education
December 10th, 2024, 10h am EST (Montréal)
Lecturer: Dr. Catherine Déri
Webinar description: During this webinar, Catherine Déri will present recent findings on how university professors and undergraduate students reacted to generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) during the two years following the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022. The data collected in overs 6,000 questionnaires and 200 interviews reveal that students were quicker than professors to familiarize themselves with GenAI tools and remain ahead of the game with their usage of the new technology. A discussion will include the reasons why some individuals are still reluctant to integrate GenAI in their personal and professional lives, such as lack of training and policies, environmental and ethical values, resistance to change and concerns with data security. Finally, two different frameworks will be proposed to better adjust to new technologies in educational settings.
Lecturer: Catherine Déri
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ChatGPT, parlez-en à votre bibliothécaire!
6 février 2025, 10h am EST (Montréal)
Présentatrice : Laurence Huot
Description du webinaire : Ce webinaire est une réflexion sur l’IA générative et les compétences informationnelles. Je m’interroge sur ses impacts en matière de recherche et production d’information en contexte de réalisation de travaux universitaires. Une attention sur le plagiat et l’intégrité sera également abordé lors de ce webinaire.
Présentatrice : Laurence Huot est bibliothécaire disciplinaire à l’Université du Québec en Outaouais depuis juin 2016. Elle s’occupe des sciences de l’éducation, des relations industrielles et des sciences naturelles. Les formations en recherche documentaire et au logiciel EndNote font partie de son quotidien! Elle est intéressée par tout ce qui se rapporte de près ou de loin aux compétences informationnelles.
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The GenAI Footprint in Scholarly Publications Reflects the Complex Issues of Academic Integrity in the Post-Plagiarism Era
March 5th, 2024, 10h am EST (Montréal)
Lecturer: Gengyan Tang, and Dr. Sarah Elaine Eaton
Webinar description: To come The GenAI Footprint has increasingly appeared in scholarly publications. We conducted a rapid investigation and ongoing monitoring of this phenomenon. Our initial evidence reveals cases of complete plagiarism involving ChatGPT-generated content by both faculty and students in certain countries. Further evidence from our ongoing tracking indicates that this phenomenon is spreading across a wider range of publication types and appearing in journals of varying quality (both high- and low-tier), signaling a global issue. This raises concerns about the emergence of “bad apples” in the quality assurance of higher education in the post-plagiarism era and calls for a systemic response to tackle this challenge.
Gengyan Tang, MA, is a PhD student in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary. His research interests include research integrity and academic integrity. Gengyan currently serves as a peer reviewer for academic journals such as Accountability in Research, Journal of Scholarly Publishing, and BMC Medical Education.
Dr. Sarah Elaine Eaton is a Professor and research chair at the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary (Canada). She is an award-winning educator, researcher, and leaderDr. Eaton also holds a concurrent appointment as an Honorary Associate Professor, Deakin University, Australia. Dr. Eaton is a co-investigator on the PUPP project.
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The Critical AI Literacy Imperative
April 9th, 2024, 10h am EDT (Montréal)
Lecturer: Dr. Guofang Wan
Webinar description: The webinar briefly reviews the changing landscape of GenAI and its impact on education. The discussion on the use of GenAI tools in education and its impact on academic integrity points to the imperative of critical GenAI literacy. Expand on critical media literacy, the webinar will describe importance of the critical AI literacy, and how to apply it in education settings.
Guofang Wan, Ph.D. Professor of education at Loyola University Chicago, and Fulbright Scholar at Federal University of Santa Caterina, Brazil. Dr. Wan has a long-time research interest and publications in promoting critical media literacy which evolved into critical AI literacy in education.
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Past events
Leveraging academic integrity through policy development and educational materials.
November 11th, 2024, 10h am EST (Montréal)
Lecturers: Dr. Özgür Çelik & Oliver Trevisiol
Webinar description: This presentation explores a dual approach to promoting academic integrity in higher education. First, it will start with what makes a well-developed academic integrity policy with a focus on the key components of academic integrity policies. Additionally, it will present best practices and training materials aimed at enhancing academic integrity. Attendees will gain insights into effective policies and educational resources that empower institutions and students to uphold integrity in academic settings.
Dr. Özgür Çelik is an English as a Foreign Language Instructor at Balikesir University, Türkiye, with over 15 years of teaching experience. His research interests include academic writing, academic integrity, and the integration of AI into educational assessment. Dr. Çelik has been involved in various research projects, including the development of academic integrity policies and the use of AI tools to enhance the learning and teaching of writing skills.
Dr. Oliver Trevisiol Subject librarian for history, theology, and educatian at the Communication, Information, Media Centre (KIM), University of Konstanz, Germany. He is also responsible for activities related to the prevention of plagiarism and digitization. He also enjoys working with AI tools in history courses. Oliver Trevisiol studied history, philosophy and political science at University of Konstanz and York University, Toronto and received his PhD in modern history form University of Konstanz in 2004.
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Registration links are found within each session, and open to anyone working at or attending an educational institution. Zoom links will be sent to registrants approximately five business days before the session.
A Certificate of Completion will be awarded to individuals who register and attend all six sessions in this series. Exceptions will not be made.
For more information, contact Brenda M. Stoesz (MAIN Chair, Brenda.Stoesz@umanitoba.ca) or Nausheen Peerwani (Speaker Series Co-chair, Nausheen.Peerwani@umanitoba.ca).
Session 1
Harden up – Rethinking approaches to misconduct, detection and assurance of learning
Most current approaches to academic integrity rely upon a singular view of students and their learning. These approaches also rely on several assumptions about students, their commitment to learning, and our capacities to detect when learning has not occurred. In this talk, Kane will explore some of these assumptions and discuss alternatives for current approaches to misconduct and assessment design.
Presenter: Dr. Kane Murdoch
Kane is Head of Complaints, Appeals and Misconduct at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. At Macquarie he is responsible for the handling of complaints, appeals and disciplinary processes, and continues his work on the detection of contract cheating and better ways to handle misconduct. He is recognized as a leading authority on the detection of contract cheating and handling of serious misconduct in higher education.
Date: Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 pm (Winnipeg, MB Canada)
Location: Zoom, please register to receive link
Moderator: Lauren Cross, Mount Royal University, Alberta, Canada
This session is presented in partnership with the Alberta Council for Academic Integrity (ACAI), a growing regional academic integrity network founded in 2019 that aims to uphold and elevate academic integrity in the Canadian province of Alberta.
Session 2
The New Frontier of Academic Integrity: Postplagiarism and Its Implications
As generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) increasingly permeates post-secondary education, traditional notions of plagiarism, authorship, and creativity are being profoundly challenged. This session explores the concept of postplagiarism, a paradigm shift that acknowledges the hybridization of human and AI-generated content. Based on a quantitative study involving students from multiple countries, the session will share students’ perceptions of postplagiarism, focusing on their acceptance of hybrid writing, the evolving role of creativity, and the necessity of redefining academic integrity in this new context. Attendees will gain insights into the implications of these shifts for educational policy and practice and the need for institutions to rethink their academic integrity frameworks in the face of rapid technological advancements.
Presenter: Dr. Rahul Kumar
Rahul is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at Brock University. In his research, he focuses on the disruptive force of genAI on education, and its effect on academic integrity and strategies to cope with the challenges. Though most of his work has focused on higher education, he has also taken an interest and undertaken research projects on the effect of genAI in secondary school classrooms and schools. The thread that connects his research is “Changing Nature of (Higher) Education.”
Date: November 20, 2024
Time: 9:00 – 9:55 am (Winnipeg, MB Canada)
Location: Zoom, please register to receive link
Moderator: Curt Shoultz, Brandon University
Session 3
Transparency vs. Equity: Ethical Dilemmas in the Responsible Use of AI Tools in Science
Presenter: Dr. Tomáš Foltýnek
Tomáš is an assistant professor at the Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing at the Faculty of Informatics and a member of the Ethical Committee for Research at Masaryk University, Czechia. He is President of the Board of the European Network for Academic Integrity. He is also a vice-chair of the Bureau of the Council of Europe’s Pan-European Platform for Ethics, Transparency, and Integrity in Education (ETINED), and a deputy head of the Working Committee on Ethics in Scientific and Pedagogical Work within the Council of Higher Education Institutions in Czechia. His research activities involved plagiarism detection and prevention, academic integrity policies and ethical use of artificial intelligence in education. He has led several national and international projects on academic integrity, namely plagiarism prevention. Since 2013 he has been organising conferences on this topic. He is a certified VIRT2UE research integrity trainer.
Date: Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Time: 9:00 – 9:55 am (Winnipeg, MB Canada)
Location: Zoom, please register to receive link
Moderator: Josh Seeland, Assiniboine College
Session 4
Academic Integrity in the Irish Higher Education System: Lessons Learnt and Reflections along the Way
In 2019, legislation was passed in Ireland that criminalized the provision or advertisement of contract cheating services. Shortly thereafter, the National Academic Integrity Network, which brings together representatives from across the Irish higher education sector (and more recently the vocational/further education sector), was established. Throughout its five years of existence, NAIN has encouraged and supported the development of cultures of academic integrity in higher education institutions and produced resources to guide and assist institutions. Since 2023, elements of the N-TUTORR project, a national program of activity aimed at building capacity in the relatively new technological university sector, has been building upon and working in partnership with NAIN to progress and support the implementation of NAIN resources. In this webinar, the chair of NAIN and the N-TUTORR academic integrity project lead will discuss the benefits of collaboration and partnership and reflect upon lessons learnt.
Presenters:
- Mairéad Boland, Assistant Registrar at South East Technological University in Carlow, Ireland
- Billy Kelly, Chair, National Academic Integrity Network (NAIN – Ireland); former Assistant Registrar and Dean of Teaching and Learning, Dublin City University,
- Dr. Frances O’Connell, N-TUTORR Lead; Vice President Student Education and Experience, Technological University of the Shannon
Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Time: 9:00 – 9:55 am (Winnipeg, MB Canada)
Location: Zoom, please register to receive link
Moderator: Brenda M. Stoesz, Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, University of Manitoba & Chair, Manitoba Academic Integrity Network (MAIN)
Session 5
Neutralizing the “Threat”: A Practitioners Guide to Re-Evaluating Student Assessments to Maintain Academic Integrity
Technology and various tools have the power to disrupt learning and compromise academic integrity. The onslaught of genAI has caused many of us to reconsider our assessments, yet the task of assessment redesign can be daunting, and we may not know where to begin. This presentation discusses four broad “filters” through which educators can consider how to best move forward (or not) with an existing assessment. When considered with other concepts, theories, and contextual factors, these filters may help enrich our decision-making. The four filters are, Abandon, Monitor, Enhance, & Adopt, and they all intended to help “neutralize the threat” to assessments. Overall, these filters are intended to provide a guide or framework for faculty (or used by those who coach or work with faculty) when they are considering assessment redesign while promoting academic integrity.
Presenters: Dr. Cory Scurr
Cory is the Manager, Academic Integrity, Conestoga Library & Learning Services and Chair, Academic Integrity Council of Ontario (AICO)
Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Time: 10:00 – 10:55 am (Winnipeg, MB Canada)
Location: Zoom, please register to receive link
Moderator: Tod Denham, Exams Department Supervisor, Thompson Rivers University, British Columbia
Session 6
Transforming Assessment Practices in Higher Education with the AI Assessment Scale (AIAS)
As the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) technologies have become increasingly ubiquitous in HE, higher education institutions must equip students with the skills and knowledge necessary for an AI-driven future. Although some HEIs have attempted to ban the use of these tools and enforce this through an AI text detection strategy, this session proposes an alternative solution to this challenge. The AI Assessment Scale (AIAS) developed by Perkins et al. (2024), offers a flexible framework for incorporating GenAI into educational assessments while promoting academic integrity and ethical use of these technologies. It consists of five allowable levels of AI use in submitted assessments, ranging from ‘No AI’ to ‘AI Exploration’, enabling educators to design assessments that focus on areas requiring human input and critical thinking. This intervention will explore the challenges of attempting to use a detection-based approach to dealing with GenAI use in assessments, introduce the AIAS as a possible alternative, and discuss the findings of a pilot study of the AIAS at British University Vietnam (BUV) which has demonstrated significant benefits in reducing misconduct and supporting student engagement and attainment.
Presenter: Dr. Mike Perkins
Mike is an Associate Professor and Head of the Centre for Research & Innovation at British University Vietnam. Mike carried out his university studies at The University of York, UK, where he completed his PhD in Operations Management, focusing on public perceptions of policing service. Mike’s research interests revolve around academic integrity, performance management and public sector management.
Date: Thursday, March 13, 2025
Time: 6:00 – 6:55 pm (Winnipeg, MB Canada)
Location: Zoom, please register to receive link
Moderator: Brenda M. Stoesz, Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, University of Manitoba & Chair, Manitoba Academic Integrity Network (MAIN)
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Support for Victims of Academic Integrity Misconduct.
Webinar description: Academic integrity misconduct and research malpractice usually impact particular people, for whom it can be difficult to find redress. Therefore, the Facing Academic Integrity Threats Project in cooperation with the European Network for Academic Integrity established a web portal providing support to anybody who has been affected by unethical practices in academia. This Victims Support Portal is a platform where anyone can post a question to receive impartial and personal advice from a team of mentors, who are academic integrity experts. Apart from the tailored advice, the Portal also contains a collection of potentially useful materials such as various guidelines or inspirational stories.
This webinar aims to present the “Victims Support Portal”, how it works, and how it can help you or your colleagues. There will be also a brief overview of research on experiences and support needs regarding academic integrity, academic misconduct, and questionable practices. The conclusion part of the webinar will be dedicated to a discussion on how institutions and also individuals can help and support colleagues affected by academic misconduct.
Lecturer: Description as seen on ENAI’s website: “Dr. Dita Henek Dlabolová is the European Network for Academic Integrity (ENAI) executive manager. She is also an experienced teacher and trainer in the field of academic integrity. Her main focus is plagiarism prevention and interpretation of outputs of text-matching software. Her background is in computer science. Before starting her job with ENAI, she worked at Mendel University in Brno, Czechia, as an assistant professor, teaching computer science and academic writing. She worked there as a vice-dean for accreditation and was the Head of the disciplinary committee.
To register for this webinar https://uqo.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrce2urz0vHdWbeAVDCYAb_uRraoWwQqHE
March 26th, 2024, 10h am (EST, Montréal), PUPP collaborator Ph.D. candidate Pegi Pavletić will present the webinar “Croatian students’ ombudspersons: What support do the students need and how effective are they as ombuds?“
To register: https://uqo.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYof-mqqTsrHNUHYZGvDGuxlwTOITpqYy9a
Abstract: “Croatian Law on Student council and Other Students’ Organizations determines that the students at all Croatian higher education institutions can have their rights protected by students’ ombudspersons. These ombudspersons are selected from among the students themselves at public elections at every faculty, and one of these representatives is a coordinator at the level of the Universities. Within the Croatian Students’ Council, a national students’ ombudsperson coordinator has their office. The role of the students’ ombudspersons is to provide consultations on the matters of academic integrity, help students in defending their rights in ethical or judicial procedures at universities, and to help them get the information they need.
The goal of this webinar is to present this system of students acting as ombudspersons, and to collect and present ombuds’ experiences related to the issues students face most often, connected to students’ rights and academic integrity. We will also speak about the ombuds’ support at the institution, the training opportunities they get and the quality of collaboration at the institutional level in relation to academic integrity. We will investigate whether they have sufficient support, and if not, why is that and how can their training be improved.
The outcome of this webinar would be to engage in a fruitful discussion with others that might be involved in working with students in academic integrity, collecting advice on how to more effectively engage students and train them in the topic, and how can the students engage more actively and train themselves.”
Lecturer: Pegi Pavletić is a Ph.D. candidate in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Biotechnology, field: medicinal chemistry, at the University of Camerino in Italy. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the Quality Assurance Pool of Student Experts under the European Students’ Union. She is a former member of the Executive Committee of the European Students’ Union, focusing on the fields of Quality Assurance, Academic Integrity and Recognition. She was a President of the Croatian Students’ Council and a two-time President of the Students’ Council at the University of Rijeka, where she collaborated with students’ ombudspersons and the national students’ ombudspersons coordinator.
“The Manitoba Academic Integrity Network is excited to present a series of professional development opportunities related to academic integrity. Registration links are found within each session, and open to anyone working at or attending an educational institution. Email seelandjl@assiniboine.net with any further questions.”
Session 6: Inclusion and Accessibility with AI Tools.
Thursday, March 14, 2024, 9 am – 10 am (Central Standard Time).
Presenter: Dr. Mary Davis is academic integrity lead at Oxford Brookes University, UK and has been working in the field of academic integrity for nearly 20 years.
February 27th, 2024, 10h am (EST, Montréal), PUPP researcher Sébastien Béland will present the webinar “Intentional Plagiarism: Testing Risk Aversion Hypothesis”
To register: https://uqo.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtf-yspj0qHdwz8pTGm276_t3k_RttZqvm
Abstract: This webinar explores the idea that intentional plagiarism can be a risk adverse behavior, which can be seen in a large variety of contexts (Mandrick & Bao, 2005) and even in the animal kingdom (Zhang, Brennan & Lo, 2014). Using three different data collections, this study investigated French-Canadian undergraduate education students’ (i) inclination to take risks in life and (ii) their likelihood of intentional plagiarism in different scenarios involving varying degrees of risk of being caught. Our finding shows that 60% of students declare themselves as non risk-takers. Thus, we will show that the risk adverse hypothesis seems plausible and we suggest that students are more susceptible to plagiarise when the stakes are high and the risk of being caught is low.
Lecturer: Sébastien Béland is an Associate Professor in the Department of Administration and Educational Foundations at the Université de Montréal. His passion for research and statistics is reflected in his areas of expertise: assessment (objectives, tools and practice), measurement and research methods.
“The Manitoba Academic Integrity Network is excited to present a series of professional development opportunities related to academic integrity. Registration links are found within each session, and open to anyone working at or attending an educational institution. Email seelandjl@assiniboine.net with any further questions.”
Session 5: Understanding if and How Students’ Mindsets and Actions Align.
Thursday February 8th, 2024, 11 am – 12 pm (Central Standard Time).
Presenter: Kelley Packalen, PhD is an Associate Professor of Strategy & Organization, Smith School of Business and Special Advisor on Academic Integrity to the Vice Provost (Teaching and Learning), Queen’s University. Both her approach to academic integrity in the classroom and her service work on policy is informed by her research on the topic.
November 9th, 2023, 10h am EST (Montréal), PUPP Co-Director and researcher Irene Glendinning will present this Free Webinar.
To register: https://uqo.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMucO6qrDouHdeDuGvMkncu32nrRl6PFtIt
Institution-Wide Approaches to Academic Integrity, Working with Colleagues and Students
Abstract: “Skills and knowledge of undergraduate students, on topics such as academic writing, use of sources, paraphrasing etc, are sometimes overestimated by their subject tutors and the students themselves. Such skills deficits can lead to allegations of plagiarism or academic misconduct. This webinar will consider ways that higher education institutions can work with colleagues and students to avoid and overcome these difficulties.”
Lecturer: Dr Irene Glendinning is Academic Integrity Lead for Coventry University Group, based in the Office of Teaching and Learning. Before she joined Coventry University in 1990, she taught in secondary schools, further education and adult education and worked for a decade in industry as a computer scientist. After joining Coventry University, she managed portfolios of undergraduate, postgraduate (PGT) and international partnership programmes, as well as supervising several PhD students. Since 2009 she has led and participated in many successful research projects focused on policies for academic integrity and academic quality, funded by the European Commission, Council of Europe and Council for Higher Education Accreditation. She is currently leading the working group for the European Network for Academic Integrity (ENAI) on ethical publishing and dissemination (EPAD) and co-leading the joint ENAI and NERQ (Network for Education and Research Quality) working group on Academic Integrity Policies. Her research interests remain in academic and research integrity, quality assurance, pedagogy, student experience and addressing corruption in higher education. She serves on several editorial boards and advisory groups focused on academic and research integrity and continues to conduct research, currently on projects with funding from Canada and Europe. She has published many journal papers and book chapters on topics relating to academic integrity policies and addressing corruption in education.
“The Manitoba Academic Integrity Network is excited to present a series of professional development opportunities related to academic integrity. Registration links are found within each session, and open to anyone working at or attending an educational institution. Email seelandjl@assiniboine.net with any further questions.”
Session 4: Can Software Solve the Academic Integrity Crisis?
Wednesday, November 8, 2023, 12 pm – 1 pm (Central Standard Time).
Presenter: Debora Weber-Wulff is a retired professor of media and computing from the University of Applied Sciences HTW Berlin.
Research Ethics Training to Facilitate Collaboration in an International Partnership
Listen here to a conference in English given in May 2022, for the ECAIP 2022 event, in Porto (Portugal) by Catherine E. Déri, PhD Candidate, Department of Education Sciences, Université du Québec en Outaouais where she talks about research ethics, training for an international perspective, takeaways and recommendations.