New Book: Academic Integrity in Canada

March 22, 2022

Cover - Academic Integrity in CanadaI’m pleased to share that Academic Integrity in Canada: An Enduring and Essential Challenge (Eaton & Christensen Hughes, eds.) has been published. This edited volume spans almost 600 pages, including 31 chapters contributed by 40+ authors.

Don’t be misled by the title. Although all the contributors are from Canada, we purposely kept a global audience in mind when crafting the chapters. We wanted this book to be relevant and useful for readers well beyond our own borders.

Tis book is Open Access and freely available to download. Here is the link:  https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-83255-1

Table of Contents (Overview)

Ch. 01: Academic Integrity in Canada: Historical Perspectives and Current Trends (Sarah Elaine Eaton & Julia Christensen Hughes)

Ch. 02: Academic Integrity Across Time and Place: Higher Education’s Questionable Moral Calling (Julia Christensen Hughes)

Ch. 03: Student Integrity Violations in the Academy: More Than a Decade of Growing Complexity and Concern (Julia Christensen Hughes & Sarah Elaine Eaton)

Ch. 04: Academic Misconduct in Higher Education: Beyond Student Cheating (Julia Christensen Hughes & Sarah Elaine Eaton)

Ch. 05: Re-Defining Academic Integrity: Embracing Indigenous Truths (Yvonne Poitras Pratt & Keeta Gladue)

Ch. 06: Accountability, Relationality and Indigenous Epistemology: Advancing an Indigenous Perspective on Academic Integrity (Gabrielle Lindstrom)

Ch. 07: Understanding Provincial and Territorial Academic Integrity Policies for Elementary and Secondary Education in Canada (Brenda M. Stoesz)

Ch. 08: Contract Cheating in Canada: A Comprehensive Overview (Sarah Elaine Eaton)

Ch. 09: Ethics,  EdTech, and the Rise of Contract Cheating (Brenna Clarke Gray)

Ch. 10: Pay-To-Pass: Evolving Online Systems That Undermine the Integrity of Student Work (Nancy Chibry & Ebba Kurz)

Ch. 11: Education as a Financial Transaction: Contract Employment and Contract Cheating (Katherine (Katie) Crossman)

Ch. 12: Academic Integrity in Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) Settings (Jennifer B. Miron)

Ch. 13: Canadian Open Digital Distance Education Universities and Academic Integrity (Cheryl A. Kier & Jill Hunter)

Ch. 14: Visual Plagiarism: Seeing the Forest and the Trees (John Paul Foxe, Allyson Miller, Glen Farrelly, Vincent Hui, Dianne Nubla, & Colleen Schindler-Lynch)

Ch. 15: Managing Academic Integrity in Canadian Engineering Schools (David deMontigny)

Ch. 16: Teaching the Teachers: To What Extent Do Pre-service Teachers Cheat on Exams and Plagiarise in Their Written Work? (Martine Peters, Sylvie Fontaine, & Eric Frenette)

Ch. 17: The Distinctive Nature of Academic Integrity in Graduate Legal Education (Jonnette Watson Hamilton)

Ch. 18: Student Insight on Academic Integrity (Kelley A. Packalen & Kate Rowbotham)

Ch. 19: Helping Students Resolve the Ambiguous Expectations of Academic Integrity (Susan L. Bens)

Ch. 20: How to Talk About Academic Integrity so Students Will Listen: Addressing Ethical Decision-Making Using Scenarios (Lee-Ann Penaluna & Roxanne Ross)

Ch. 21: Revisioning Paraphrasing Instruction (Silvia Rossi)

Ch. 22: Supporting Academic Integrity in the Writing Centre: Perspectives of Student Consultants (Kim Garwood)

Ch. 23: Beyond the Traditional: Academic Integrity in Canadian Librarianship (Leeanne Morrow)

Ch. 24: The Barriers to Faculty Reporting Incidences of Academic Misconduct at Community Colleges (Melanie Hamilton & Karla Wolsky)

Ch. 25: Changing “Hearts” and Minds: Pedagogical and Institutional Practices to Foster Academic Integrity (Laurie McNeill)

Ch. 26: Promotion of Academic Integrity Through a Marketing Lens for Canadian Post-secondary Institutions (Nazanin Teymouri, Sheryl Boisvert, & Katrina John-West)

Ch. 27: Using Quality Assurance Frameworks to Support an Institutional Culture of Academic Integrity at Canadian Universities (Emma J. Thacker & Amanda McKenzie)

Ch. 28: Student Academic Misconduct Through a Canadian Legal Lens (Melissa Morrison & Philip Zachariah)

Ch. 29: Building a Culture of Restorative Practice and Restorative Responses to Academic Misconduct (Paul Sopcak & Kevin Hood)

Ch. 30: Academic Integrity Through a #SoTL Lens and 4M Framework: An Institutional Self-Study (Natasha Kenny & Sarah Elaine Eaton

Ch. 31: Conclusions and Future Directions for Academic Integrity in Canada (Sarah Elaine Eaton & Julia Christensen Hughes)

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Sarah Elaine Eaton, PhD, is a faculty member in the Werklund School of Education, and the Educational Leader in Residence, Academic Integrity, University of Calgary, Canada. Opinions are my own and do not represent those of the University of Calgary.


Alberta Council on Academic Integrity 2022 Provincial Meeting

March 10, 2022

Registration is open for the Alberta Council on Academic Integrity (ACAI) Spring 2022 provincial meeting.

Please join us for the Alberta Council on Academic Integrity (ACAI) Spring 2022 provincial meeting, a hybrid event to be hosted virtually by Bow Valley college. Anyone keen to support academic integrity in post-secondary institutions as well as in K-12 in Alberta is welcome – students, staff, faculty, administrators, and any other interested party. You can join in person at the Bow Valley College campus in downtown Calgary, or join virtually through MS Teams.

Highlights:

  • Presentation on the Bow Valley College research project: Understanding Student Experiences with Contract Cheating and other Outsourcing Behaviours – The research team includes an administrator, a faculty member, and two student researchers from Bow Valley College with ACAI as the community partner
  • A panel discussion by English Language Learning students sharing experiences regarding academic integrity
  • Faculty sharing UDL interventions to prevent cheating
  • Reports from the EDI, Contract Cheating, and Educational Development working groups

Updates on Alberta Academic Integrity Week (Oct. 18-22, 2022) activities

Thursday, May 26, 2022

8:30am – 3:00pm

Register here

If you have any questions, please direct them to Margaret Toye, Steering Committee Member, Alberta Council on Academic Integrity (ACAI): mtoye@bowvalleycollege.ca

We look forward to connecting with you at the meeting!

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