Alberta Academic Integrity Week, Oct. 17-21, 2022

June 20, 2022

AB AcInt Week 2022The Alberta Council on Academic Integrity is pleased to announce Academic Integrity Week: October 17-21, 2022.

Here are some ways for educational institutions across the province to get involved:

  • Offer events at your school to promote academic integrity
  • Engage students in conversations about academic integrity
  • Offer skill-building workshops such as citing and referencing workshops
  • Distribute academic integrity swag to students and staff
  • Hold workshops for faculty on topics such as academic misconduct case management
  • Build awareness about the predatory contract cheating industry
  • Connect with your student leaders to plan events and raise awareness
  • Cross-promote workshops and events with other Alberta institutions
  • Join the International Day of Action Against Contract Cheating on October 19, 2022

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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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Contract Cheating in Alberta and Beyond

October 21, 2021

As co-chairs of the Alberta Council on Academic Integrity working group on contract cheating, Sheryl Boisvert and I presented this webinar on contract cheating in Alberta as part of Integrity Week at the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning at the University of Calgary. We discussed essay mills, homework completion services, unethical tutoring services, and thesis consultation services that all cross the line into academic misconduct. Participants learned about the size and scope of this predatory industry and how it preys on our students, including engaging in blackmail and extortion.

Cite this presentation as:

Eaton, S. E., & Boisvert, S. (2021, October 20). Contract cheating in Alberta and beyond. Paper presented at the Academic Integrity Week: Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, University of Calgary [online] Calgary, Canada. 

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Alberta Council on Academic Integrity: Spring 2020 Meeting

February 18, 2020

I am excited to share that the Alberta Council on Academic Integrity is planning its spring 2020 meeting!

The council was created in 2019 following the Canadian Symposium on Academic Integrity. We are comprised of a group of like-minded individuals committed to supporting academic integrity in Alberta. The council hosted its inaugural meeting in August 2019 at the University of Calgary, followed by a second meeting in October at Norquest College.

Our work is aligned with other provincial groups such as the Academic Integrity Council of Ontario (AICO), the Manitoba Academic Integrity Network (MAIN), and the BC Academic Integrity Day.

Steering Committee

There are a number of individuals committed to guiding the work of the council as it develops in its first few years. (Members listed alphabetically by institution):

  • Margaret Toye, Bow Valley College
  • Melanie (Mel) Hamilton, Lethbridge College
  • Marg Olfert, Mount Royal University
  • Nazanin Teymouri, Norquest College
  • Sheryl Boisvert, Norquest College
  • Cheryl Kier, Athabasca University
  • Sarah Elaine Eaton, University of Calgary

Lethbridge College will host the spring meeting on April 24, 2020. This will be an important meeting as we will seek approval on our council’s charter, which was presented in draft form at the fall 2019 meeting.We welcome colleagues from Alberta post-secondary institutions to join us in Lethbridge. At this point, participation is limited to those working at a recognized Alberta educational institution.

For questions about the spring meeting, contact Melanie Hamilton, Lethbridge College – melanie.hamilton (at) lethbridgecollege (dot) ca

Registration is required. Click here to register.

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