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.
For more information, contact Brenda M. Stoesz (MAIN and 2022-2023 Speaker Series Chair, Brenda.Stoesz@umanitoba.ca).
Session 1
A restorative justice approach to addressing academic misconduct
Dr. Cath Ellis’ previous roles as Associate Dean (Education) in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture and Associate Dean (Education) in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences have also informed how she approaches serious cases of academic misconduct, such as contract cheating. In a recent Integrity Matters article, Dr. Ellis makes a strong case for the value of perceiving academic misconduct as a mistake, “Of course it’s a serious mistake, but a mistake nonetheless. And educational institutions are in the very business of helping students learn from their mistakes.” In this presentation, she will describe the need for having courageous conversations with students as part of a restorative justice approach to addressing academic misconduct and promoting the values of academic integrity.
Presenter: Dr. Cath Ellis, Professor, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia
Date: October 3, 2022
Time: 8:30 – 9:00 am, CST
Location: Zoom, please register to receive link
Session 2
Academic misconduct – ways to detect it, and the statistical averages of its occurrence
Estimating how many students engage in academic misconduct and how frequently they do it, is influenced by numerous aspects of the research methodology. This session will outline what we know about the prevalence and incidence rates of student plagiarism and cheating, factors that are known to affect these rates, and limitations of the research that leaves questions unanswered. Best practices and alternatives to typical methodologies will be outlined. The implications of what we know about rates of academic misconduct for how we detect academic misconduct will be discussed.
Learning outcomes:
- Understand the types of misconduct students engage in more or less frequently.
- Identify factors that influence rates of academic misconduct.
- Explain good practice and limitations in research on academic misconduct prevalence and incidence.
- Develop situationally-appropriate misconduct detection approaches.
Presenter: Dr. Guy Curtis, Senior Lecturer, Applied Psychology, University of Western Australia
Date: October 13, 2022
Time: 9:00 – 9:55 am, CST
Location: Zoom, please register to receive link
Session 3
Positive interventions in the age of contract cheating
Join Dr Thomas Lancaster as he considers what can be done about contract cheating, the behaviour where a student pays or uses a third party to complete their assessed work for them. Find out more about why contract cheating is a problem, why students are at risk, how educators are reconsidering their choice of assessments and how students can themselves help provide solutions. Time will be available for discussion and for attendees to share the positive interventions they have themselves used to address contract cheating.
Learning outcomes:
- Describe what contract cheating is and how this can pose a problem across a range of academic disciplines.
- Compare a range of approaches to assessment design that can be used to engage students and make contract cheating less valuable to them.
- Identify ways to work alongside student as academic integrity partners and address contract cheating as a wider community.
Presenter: Dr. Thomas Lancaster, Senior Teaching Fellow, Computing, Imperial College London, UK
Date: October 20, 2022
Time: 10:00 – 10:55 am, CST
Location: Zoom, please register to receive link
Session 4
Contract cheating: Does stress matter?
Contract cheating is a form of violation behaviour that is on the rise in post-secondary institutions. Join us as we share results from a self-report survey at a Canadian college that explored the prevalence and nature of student engagement in contract cheating and stress learners experienced while completing their programs. We discuss how investigating stress and contract cheating may be used to inform academic integrity policy, procedure, and the supports we provide to students.
Learning outcomes:
- Discuss the prevalence of commercial contract cheating and sharing behaviour
- Identify the types of behaviours learners most often engage in
- Describe how learners who engage in contract cheating experience stress
- Explain how research on stress and contract cheating can inform academic integrity policy, procedure, and supports
Presenters: Corrine Ferguson, Instructor, Social Sciences and Humanities, Bow Valley College, Alberta, Canada & Dr. Margaret Toye, Associate Dean, School of Community Studies, Human Services and Social Sciences, Bow Valley College, Alberta, Canada
Date: November 25, 2022
Time: 12:00 – 12:55 pm, CST
Location: Zoom, please register to receive link
Session 5
Experiential learning and academic integrity
Integrity through experience: Fostering a culture of academic integrity through an experiential learning approach
Experiential learning is a pedagogical approach used to bridge discipline-specific learning with the world-at-large. A common goal when adopting experiential learning is to support a culture of integrity within the current course of study. This goal often stretches to include the aim of transferring integrity-based actions into future academic study, workplaces, and community organizations. This session looks at the connections and possibilities in intentionally designing integrity into experiential learning activities and courses.
Learning outcomes:
- Examine connections between the values underlying academic integrity and experiential learning.
- Consider common assumptions about academic integrity and its place in course learning outcomes and assessments.
- Explore strategies to intentionally develop academic integrity through an experiential learning approach.
Presenter: Rebecca Brooks, MEd, Faculty Specialist: Experiential Learning, The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, University of Manitoba
Date: February 22, 2023
Time: 10:00 – 10:55 am, CST
Location: Zoom, please register to receive link
Session 6
Academic integrity as congruence: A panel session on the potential in shared values
Most post-secondary institutions in Canada have an academic integrity policy of some type. An increasing number of these institutions list the fundamental values of academic Integrity (i.e., courage, honesty, trust, respect, fairness, and responsibility) as defined by the International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI, 2021) in their policies. In this moderated and interactive session, panelists will share their perspectives of these values and how academic integrity can be viewed as an opportunity for building inclusion in positive and proactive ways.
Panelists: Marcos Cunha Cordeiro, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Manitoba; Robin Attas, Educational Developer: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, University of Manitoba; Claudius Soodeen, Instructor, University of Winnipeg; & Michael Cameron, Dean, Community Development, Assiniboine Community College
Date: March 8, 2023
Time: 10:00 – 10:55 am, CST
Location: Zoom, please register to receive link
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