Degrees of Deceit: A Webinar

August 5, 2020

Degrees of Deceit: Understanding the landscape of counterfeit credentials and university admissions fraud – Webinar

Overview

Join Jamie Carmichael and Sarah Elaine Eaton for a provocative session about counterfeit credentials such as fake degrees and tampered transcripts. Admissions fraud remains an understudied area of academic integrity and educational ethics. Learn about some of the telltale signs of admissions fraud in higher education.

This session will be of particular interest to those who handle admissions files for post-secondary institutions, including: academic leaders, registrarial staff, administrative staff, and academics who sit on admissions committees. Although this session is framed within the context of Canadian higher education, many of the concepts and tips will likely apply to those in other jurisdictions, as admissions fraud is a global concern.

This session will take place from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Mountain Time (Calgary, Canada) via Zoom. Login instructions will be sent to registered participants within one day of the live event. The live session can accommodate 300 participants, but everyone who registers will receive a link to watch a recorded version of the presentation after the live event.

This event is part of the Academic Integrity: Urgent and Emerging Topics webinar series, hosted by the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning at the University of Calgary, which addresses timely and emergent topics that are cutting edge, provocative or high profile in nature.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session, participants will:

  • Understand foundational concepts related to admissions fraud.
  • Be aware of the business models that thrive in this landscape, and the potential for blackmail with counterfeit credentials.
  • Assess how those involved with admissions processes can better identify fraudulent documents.

Presenter bios

Jamie Carmichael is the Associate Registrar, Carleton University, and is completing her Master’s research on contract cheating and academic integrity. She has presented or co-presented her work at the International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) conference (2019) and the International Center for Academic Integrity annual conference (2020).

Jamie Carmichael, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Sarah Elaine Eaton is an Associate Professor, Werklund School of Education and the inaugural Educational Leader in Residence, Academic Integrity at the Taylor Institute of Teaching and Learning, University of Calgary. She is an award-winning educator and researcher whose work focuses on academic integrity in Canadian higher education. Her work can be found in the British Educational Research Journal, the Journal of Academic Ethics, and the International Journal for Educational Ethics, among other places. Her book, Plagiarism in Higher Education: Tackling Tough Topics in Academic Integrity will be published by ABC Clio/Libraries Unlimited in 2021.

Sarah Elaine Eaton

Registration

Registration is required, as login instructions will only be sent to registered participants.

Register here: https://conted.ucalgary.ca/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=load&courseId=56681459&expandSectionId=57027207&parentSite=TI#courseSectionDetails_57027149

Each webinar can accommodate 300 live participants. All registrants will be e-mailed a link to the recorded version of the webinar for viewing after the live event.

Registration deadline: September 10, 2020 by 1:00 p.m. Mountain Time

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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.

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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.

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Webinar: Sharing is caring? Exploring academic integrity and file-sharing behaviours

July 21, 2020

Webinar: Sharing is caring? Exploring academic integrity and file-sharing behaviours

August 14, 2020

10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Mountain Time (Calgary, Canada)

Join Dr. Brenda Stoesz (University of Manitoba) and Josh Seeland (Assiniboine Community College) for an interactive session on academic file-sharing among students. Learn what some of the issues are, and how to address them from an academic integrity perspective.

This online event is part of the Academic Integrity Webinar Series, offered through the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning at the University of Calgary. The series is convened by Dr. Sarah Elaine Eaton, Educational Leader in Residence, Academic Integrity.

Presenter bios:

Brenda M. Stoesz currently works as a faculty specialist at The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, MB, Canada, where she develops educational resources and professional development opportunities for post-secondary academic staff. Stoesz also conducts research on academic integrity, with a focus on academic integrity policy analysis and contract cheating. In 2019, she founded and currently chairs the Manitoba Academic Integrity Network (MAIN). Stoesz holds a PhD in Psychology and Bachelors of Education and Science. She has more than 20 years of experience teaching high school, college, and university students.

Josh Seeland works as Academic Integrity & Copyright Officer at the Assiniboine Community College (ACC) Library in Brandon, MB, Canada, where his primary duties include research initiatives and library instruction/outreach at ACC locations across Manitoba. He is a member of the Manitoba Academic Integrity Network (MAIN) and chairs ACC’s Academic Integrity Advisory Committee. Seeland holds Bachelor of Arts in History and Philosophy from the University of Manitoba and a diploma in Library and Information Technology from Red River College.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this session, you will be able to:

  • Understand what academic file-sharing is and how it works.
  • Understand how predatory commercial file sharing sites can exploit or deceive students.
  • Discuss how educators can work with students to understand what ethical sharing means.

Register here.

This webinar is the first in a new series being offered through the Taylor Institute of Teaching and Learning at the University of Calgary.

This series will deal with timely and emergent topics that are cutting edge, provocative or high profile in nature. Each webinar can accommodate 300 live participants. All registrants will be e-mailed a link to the recorded version of the webinar for viewing after the live event.

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Academic Integrity in Large Classes: A Reading and Resource List

July 14, 2020

To prepare for take part in this online panel discussion on Assessment Design and Integrity in Large Classes, hosted by the Dalhousie University Centre for Learning and Teaching, I’ve curated a reading and resource list on:

  • Academic Integrity in Large Online Classes
  • Academic Integrity in Large Face-to-Face Classes

I have cast a particular eye to locating resources for large online courses, but have included resources on face-to-face classes as well, since the values and principles of academic integrity apply regardless of the learning mode.

There is no single definition of what a “large” class is. Other terms used more or less synonymously include:

  • Large classes / courses / lectures
  • Mega classes / courses / lectures

I intentionally do not define what a large lecture is. I have included resources where the authors or creators themselves have identified that their focus is on academic integrity in large courses.

This resource is intended to be comprehensive, but may not be exhaustive. I have personally reviewed and curated resources that I think are high quality, relevant and useful. Not all them are peer-reviewed, but I am confident that they have been written or created by experts with relevant qualifications and expertise.

At this point, I have limited my search to sources published from 2000 onwards. I will continue to update this list on a regular basis, noting the date of the most recent update at the top.

You can check out and download the list here:

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New article: Academic integrity during COVID-19

July 13, 2020

ISEA 48(1)

I am excited to share my latest article, “Academic Integrity During COVID-19: Reflections From the University of Calgary”, published in International Studies in Educational Administration (ISEA).

Abstract:
In this paper I document and reflect on our institutional response to the coronavirus crisis from an academic integrity perspective. I contemplate how the rapid transition to remote learning impacted academic misconduct, including how assessment of student learning played a role. I explore the proliferation of commercial file-sharing and contract cheating companies during the pandemic, situating Canada within broader global contexts. Finally, I consider how to address concerns around academic integrity as remote and online delivery continue into the fall 2020 semester and beyond.

Keywords: academic integrity, COVID-19, emergency conditions, higher education, contract cheating, file-sharing

This article is part of a special series of papers focusing on educational responses to the pandemic. ISEA is published by the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and Management (CCEAM). According to the journal’s website: “The journal is one of the oldest journals in the educational leadership field” CCEAM retains the copyright, and has granted permission for me (and all authors in this issue) to make their work publicly and widely available on the Internet. Thus, with full permissions, I am happy to share a full copy of the article free of charge in .pdf format: Eaton ISEA 2020 48(1).

Special thanks to Dr. David Gurr, Editor-in-Chief, and his team who managed to turn around these submissions in record time. It is a privilege to be included in this first issue.

Here’s the full reference:

Eaton, S. E. (2020). Academic Integrity During COVID-19: Reflections From the University of Calgary. International Studies in Educational Administration, 48(1), 80-85.

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Call for Papers – Machine-based plagiarism: The death of originality in the digital age?

June 28, 2020

special issue 30 April 2021International Journal for Educational Integrity (published by BMC Springer Nature) calls for submissions for a special issue on machine-based plagiarism.

Overview:

Paraphrasing tools, translation software and ‘article spinners’ are text-processing applications easily found and accessed via the Internet. Text, ranging from phrases through to longer documents such as essays, can be entered in one field and then ‘spun’, reprocessed or translated.  The output from paraphrasing tools, article spinners and translation software can mislead people into thinking that these tools create a new form of original writing.

While the revised text may look different to the original, the tools usually produce poor quality outputs.  Submitting the output for academic credit can be considered a form of plagiarism, and where researchers use the tools to reprocess their existing work, outputs can be considered to be a form of self-plagiarism.

Topics of particular interest are:

  • Machine-based plagiarism
  • Article spinners
  • Machine-based paraphrasing tools
  • Machine learning as it relates to academic integrity
  • Artificial intelligence as it relates to academic integrity
  • Translation software and automated text processing as an emerging threat to academic integrity

Edited by: 
Tracey Bretag, University of South Australia Business School, Adelaide – Co-Editor-in-Chief
Ann Rogerson, University of Wollongong, Australia –  Special Guest Editor
Sarah Elaine Eaton, University of Calgary, Canada – Co-Editor-in-Chief

Deadline for submissions: April 31, 2021

See the full call for papers here: https://edintegrity.biomedcentral.com/mbp

We welcome queries from prospective contributors. Send queries to: Sarah Elaine Eaton

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