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European Network for Academic Integrity

Dita Dlabolová & Tomáš Foltýnek

Mendel University in Brno

Czech Republic

[email protected]

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Inaugural Mediterranenean Conference

Integrity as a Way Forward

Content• Academic integrity across Europe this room and beyond

• European Network for Academic Integrity

– Motivation

– Current state

– Further steps

• Invitation

Academic Integrity across

Europe and Beyond

Discussion

this room

At Your Institution…• Who decides whether a student is guilty of an academic

integrity breach?

– Plagiarism, inappropriate collusion, exam cheating,…

• Who decides on the penalty applied to students for an academic integrity breach?

At Your Institution…• What would happen if a student was found guilty of

plagiarism in their assignment or final project/dissertation?

• Is there someone a teacher can ask for an advice?

What Would You Do?• Written exam

• Any communication is explicitly forbidden

• You catch Alice showing her exam to Bob

• Bob is copying from Alice’s exam

What Would You Do?• Written exam

• Any communication was explicitly forbidden

• You don’t notice any communication or cheating during the exam

• When you are correcting the tests, you find out that two tests contain same mistakes

• You know that their authors sit next to each other

What Would You Do?• Team project (three students)

• After turn in the project:

– You accidently find out that one student didn‘t participate in the project

– The other two did his part instead of him because they didn’t want to get worse evaluation

What Would You Do?• Final thesis (bachelor or master) that you are supervising

• Student has already officially turned in his thesis

• The thesis is checked by an anti-plagiarism system

• The system notifies you about 20% match in the thesis

• You can see that all copied paragraphs are properly cited

– except for few sentences without any source

Should it Be Unified?• Should be the approaches in such situations unified in some

extent?

European Network for Academic Integrity

Vission, current and future steps

European Network for Academic Integrity

Why?

• Student effort in Europe is unified by ECTS

• Absolutely no unification in matters of academic integrity

• Huge difference between countries of Europe

• Only few European universities are members of ICAI

• (Probably) lack of confidence of European authorities/academics in “people behind the ocean”

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IPPHEAE Project• 2010—2013: Impact of Policies for Plagiarism in Higher

Education across Europe

– Research mapping plagiarism (and academic integrity) in different countries of European Union

– Enormous difference

• Especially western and eastern Europe

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ENAI – vision • Pan-European consortium with members from whole Europe

• Promote academic integrity

• Raise awareness of related matters

• Coordinate an action to improve the overall level of academic integrity in European higher education

• Share best practices, strategies and experience

• Conduct research

• Develop and provide materials, e-learning courses, workshops,…

• Rating system for universities – “Academic Integrity Label”

• Academic integrity awards

• Annual conferences

Symbiosis with Council of Europe• Pan-European platform for ethics, transparency and integrity

in education (ETINED)

– coe.int/etined

– Founded in 2014

– Two representatives per each member state

– First meeting of the platform will be in November 2016

Current State & Future Steps• Establish the ENAI (legal steps – NGO)

• Assure management + sustainability of the network

• Appoint board

• Gather members

• Preparation and implementation of the rating system, “Academic Integrity Label”

• Academic integrity awards

• Organize conferences and events

– Brno, May 24th to 26th 2017

Erasmus+ Project• Key Action 2: Strategic Partnership

• October 2016—September 2019

• Tangible intellectual outputs – to provide foundations to ENAI and to support dissemination

• 12 partners from whole Europe

• The application forced us to plan in the details the needed steps for further three years

Erasmus+ Project: Partners• Mendel University in Brno (Czech Republic)

• Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University (Turkey)

• Coventry University (UK)

• Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania)

• Nottingham Trent University (UK)

• Riga Technical University (Latvia)

• Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information (SCSTI)

• Universität Konstanz (Germany)

• University of Insubria (Italy)

• University of Nicosia (Cyprus)

• University of Maribor (Slovenia)

• University of Porto (Portugal)

Erasmus+ Project: Outputs• Output 1: Educational materials for HEI teachers and

students

• Output 2: Toolkit for cross-sectoral cooperation in terms of academic integrity

• Output 3: Handbook for improvements in academic integrity

• All materials will be available (public license, CC BY) on a special online portal

– English + national languages

Output 1: Educational materials for HEI teachers and students• Target group: teachers + students

• Course for teachers about integrity issues

• Example modules for students about integrity issues

• Set of activities for students accompanied by didactical notes

• Annotated collection of videos about AI

• Rumours / myths / FAQ about AI and plagiarism

• Typology of intertextual mistakes

• no reinventing the wheel!

Output 2: Toolkit for cross-sectoral cooperation in terms of academic integrity• Target group: HEI teachers, secondary school students and

teachers

• Motto: “Responsible Student, Responsible Employee”

• Manual on how to get relevant real-life examples and include them into courses of AI

• Set of relevant real-life examples

• Workshops for secondary school students and teachers

Output 3: Handbook for improvements in academic integrity• Target group: actors of HEIs (students, teachers, researchers,

managers)

• General guidelines for academic integrity

• Self-evaluation tool for students

• Self-evaluation tool for teachers

• Self-assessment tool for research

• Self-assessment tool for institutions / faculties / departments

• Academic integrity self-improvement in a nutshell

• Glossary of terms related to academic integrity

ENAI: Management• Board + executive director

• Annual general meeting: elects the board

• Working groups

• Members pay annual fee (first year with 50% discount)

ENAI: Membership• Members can elect the Board

• Members have discounts on fees for ENAI events, namely annual conferences

• Rating system is available for member institutions only

• Members can use ENAI’s consultants and speakers (inspired by ICAI)

• Member representatives get regular newsletter via e-mail

• Students and staff of member institutions can participate on joint educational and research activities

• Sharing of experience, inspiration, access to information,…

Plagiarism Across Europe and Beyond• Brno, Czech Republic

• May 24th to 26th 2017

• By Mendel University and Council of Europe

• www.plagiarism.cz

• [email protected]

Plagiarism Across Europe and Beyond• Research papers, short papers, posters and workshops

• All contributions under a peer-review process

Conference Topics:

• Best practices and strategies for awareness, prevention, detection of academic misconduct

• Innovation in use of e-tools and technologies for addressing plagiarism

• Internationalisation, student mobility and academic integrity

• National and local projects about academic integrity

• Ghost-writing

Plagiarism Across Europe and BeyondConfirmed keynote speakers:

Tracey Bretag Jeffrey Beall

Phill Newton Teddi Fishman

Plagiarism Across Europe and BeyondImportant Dates:

• Abstract submissions for full papers December 2, 2016

• Feedback from reviewers December 16, 2016

• Poster/workshop abstract submission January 27, 2017

• Full/short paper submissions January 27, 2017

• Feedback from reviewers February 24, 2017

• Final version of paper March 24, 2017

• Early bird registration and payment April 8, 2017

Thank you for your attention.Dita Dlabolová

[email protected]

Tomáš Foltýnek

[email protected]

www.plagiarism.cz

www.mendelu.cz/en

Presentation: www.plagiarism.cz/athens

References• Supportive texts (and ideas) for the ENAI Erasmus+ application and project

– by the project team

• Glendinning, I.: Comparison of policies for Academic Integrity in Higher Education across the European Union, 2013.

• Presentation of IPPHEAE project by Irene Glendinning, Anna Michalska, Tomáš Foltýnek

• Schuman, R: Maybe Melania Trump Wasn’t Plagiarizing. Perhaps She Was Doing Scholarship “European-Style.”, 2016(http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/07/19/maybe_melania_trump_s_plagiarism_was_just_scholarship_european_style.html).

• Questionnaires of IPPHEAE project by IPPHEAE project team

• Questionnaires on AI for FBE MENDELU by Tomáš Foltýnek, Pavel Haluza and Dita Dlabolová

• Photos: Jan Turčínek, Pavel Turčínek, private archives

• Drawings: Dita Dlabolová