Description of Activity – Learning new approaches to promote academic integrity.
Content/Subject Area: Academic Integrity
Type: 2 short courses
Length: 1 hour
Level: Lecturer/ Academic Librarian
Organiser: OneHE.
Presenter: Tricia Bertram Gallant: Integrity in the hybrid world
Camillia J. Roberts: An introduction to enhancing academic integrity
Format: 2 short courses each of 30 minutes duration. Total activity time: 1 hour.
Each of these courses give an overview of academic integrity, what it means, and, importantly, how to go about encouraging and instilling academic integrity in students. I’m attending because I’m interested in ideas of integrity in academia, and how to make integrity a part of student culture, a standard of behaviour, rather than an exception. Part of my role as Campus Librarian for a HE organisation is teaching referencing, which is often framed as avoidance of plagiarism. I prefer to frame referencing as giving credit where it is due, an indication of respect and gratitude to the those that have provided the information students, myself included, are using, rather than a pernickety chore that students do begrudgingly, and only because they’ll lose marks if they don’t reference perfectly. Of the 2 courses, that delivered by gallant was the most useful, giving strategies to co-op students into the task of building integrity within their peer groups. For myself, in my practice of teaching referencing, and occasionally providing additional to Students at Risk because of infringements of academic integrity, namely plagiarism, in intend to continue to work to reframe the concept of referencing: that it’s simply the right thing to do, giving credit where it’s due.
