Dear Readers,
Here we are with the last ENAI newsletter of 2021. Despite 2021 has been a complicated year, including many positive things and events - as you can read in the current newsletter. As we are all looking forward to the new year 2022 with hope, you can already save the date for two big academic integrity events - ENAI and ICAI annual conference.
On behalf of the ENAI team we wish you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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Call for Papers: European Conference on Academic Integrity and Plagiarism 2022
The European Conference on Academic Integrity and Plagiarism 2022 with the main theme Ethics and integrity in the changing world will take place in Porto from 4th to 6th May 2022. Due to the current situation, a virtual participation will also be possible.
The conference will be jointly organised by ENAI and the University of Porto.
Conference topics
- Academic integrity policies in a changing society
- Institutional requirements and processes: Intended and actual effects
- Continuing professional development and academic integrity
- Academic integrity and cultural differences
- Academic Integrity as embedded practice in teaching and curricular development
- Contract cheating
- Publishing and dissemination
- Best practices in responding to misconduct
- Support for misconduct victims
- Tools for misconduct detection
- Research in academic integrity
- Research and public trust
Types of submissions
- Presentation without full paper
- Presentation with full paper (papers to be submitted after the conference)
- Workshop
- Poster or infographics
Full papers presented at the conference will undergo rigorous double blind peer review. Details of publication will be announced later.
Submissions
- Abstract (500-1000 words excluding references) for all types of submission
- Submission of the abstracts: via Delegate Area after registration
- All abstracts will undergo double blind peer review.
Important dates:
- Abstract submission: February, 15th 2022
- Call for nominations for ENAI Awards: February 2022
- Feedback from reviewers: March, 1st 2022
- Final version of abstracts: April, 1st 2022
- ENAI Annual General Meeting: May, 3rd 2022
- Conference: May, 4th-6th 2022
Submission of the abstracts will be available from 1st of January 2022 via Delegate Area after registration.
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Call for ENAI Award Nominations
ENAI cordially invites submissions for five awards for 2022:
- The ENAI Exemplary Research Award
- The ENAI Exemplary Activism Award
- The Tracey Bretag ENAI Memorial Award
- The ENAI Outstanding Member Award
- The ENAI Outstanding Student Award
Descriptions of the criteria for each award and the nomination process as well as links to nomination forms can be found here. Most awards are open to both ENAI members and non-members.
Nominations will be accepted through March 10, 2022.
The members of this year's Awards Working Group (which also forms the core of the selection committee) are Sonja Bjelobaba, Irene Glendinning, Litsa Mourelatos, Stella Orim, and Teddi Fishman (Chair). Up to three additional members, from the pool of previous years' award winners, will be invited to serve on the selection committee, once nominations have been received. Note: In a change of procedure from previous years, members of the awards working group (including previous winners assisting in the selection process), are not eligible to receive awards in any year(s) in which they serve on the working group or selection committee.
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Save the Dates for the ICAI 2022 Annual Conference!
Due to the current situation, the ICAI 2022 Annual Conference will be organised virtually instead of the in-person event that they had planned to hold in Chicago.
The conference will take place from 8th to 10th March, running from 12 AM to 4 PM EST (6 PM to 10 PM CET) each day.
Find all details at the conference website, the registration is available for individuals or students or for groups.
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ENAI is Looking for an Executive Manager
ENAI as an organization is growing, but most of the activities are voluntary-based. We are looking for a person with good knowledge of the ENAI community and academic integrity to coordinate ENAI’s activities, provide support to members and working groups and help us grow further.
Position title: ENAI Executive Manager
Tasks and responsibilities:
- Coordination of events (conferences, training events, webinars, etc.) and other activities organized by ENAI
- Maintenance and development of ENAI’s website and database of educational materials
- Management of ENAI promotional activities, incl. social media
- Coordination of victim support activities
- Management of ENAI’s projects
- Fundraising
- Providing support towards ENAI members
- Providing support towards ENAI working groups
- Preparation of ENAI newsletter
Find more details and information on requirements and conditions here.
Applications: Applications including motivation letter and applicant’s CV should be sent to info@academicintegrity.eu no later than 20th of January 2022 12:00 CET.
Questions: Tomáš Foltýnek, president of the Board.
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European Academic Integrity Week 2021
The second European Academic Integrity Week took place from 18th to 22nd October 2021, with four webinars from ENAI academic integrity experts. The EAIW was organized in the collaboration with the Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics at Uppsala University in Sweden.
The recordings of the webinars are available to anyone on the ENAI YouTube channel.
Also individual institutions organised various events connected to Global Ethics Day on 20th October. See some of the events and feel free to take an inspiration for your own activities next year!
Mendel University in Brno (Czechia): Webinar How to Detect and Prove Contract Cheating
Mendel University in Brno together with University of Economics and Business in Prague jointly organised a webinar on a difficult topic: "How to Detect and Prove Contract Cheating". The main aim of the webinar was to show participants, that even if the detection and proving of contract cheating is difficult, it is not impossible.
The webinar was organised within a project by Czech ministry of education and participants from all Czech universities were welcome. Outline of the webinar and recording are available here (in Czech only).
mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna: Poster
University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna created a poster for the European Academic Integrity Week and the International Day of Action Against Contract Cheating to raise awareness about the prohibition of contract cheating. Austria is one of only a few countries that has banned contract cheating. The Austrian legislation was icnluded in the Universities Act, which became effective on October 1st 2021. Furthermore, mdw provided links to selected tools, clues and games (including ENAI webinars and handbooks by Czech universities) on their website.
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Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University Centre for Academic Integrity
By Salim Razi
Towards the end of 2020, the Turkish Council of Higher Education approved the establishment of the “Centre for Academic Integrity (CAI)” at Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University (COMU). This is the first centre in Turkey specialising in academic integrity; COMU CAI started organising activities in the first quarter of 2021. As a founder member of the European Network for Academic Integrity, COMU was already involved in several events promoting academic integrity before the official establishment of the Centre. Following its inception, the Centre has accelerated its promotional activities concerning academic integrity.
As evidence of its commitment to the promotion of academic integrity, COMU CAI organized four seminars within the scope of the "European Academic Integrity Week", which was celebrated between 18-22 October 2021 this year. The seminars were held for COMU students and academic staff at COMU Troy Culture Centre; and they addressed academics, undergraduates, postgraduates, and international students. The seminars were delivered by Dr Salim Razı, the Director of the Centre and the founder Board member of the ENAI, and aimed to establish an institutional culture of academic integrity at COMU. The seminars were recorded by COMU TV and the recordings (in English) are available after the event at COMU TV YouTube channel.
Dr Sedat Murat, the President of COMU, delivered the opening speech at the event and highlighted the importance of any teaching, learning, and research related activity at the University being associated with the principles of academic integrity. Dr Murat emphasised the requirement for building a culture of academic integrity at COMU since the University aims to get institutional accreditation very soon from the Turkish Higher Education Quality Council.
Since the development of institutional academic integrity culture requires cooperation with all stakeholders, the Centre believes in the value of students and expects that COMU students will take an active role in this process. In this direction, the Centre recently announces the establishment of its “Student Committee” which aims to contribute to raising awareness in establishing an institution-wide academic integrity culture among students in line with the goals of the Centre.
The Student Committee consists of two PhD students, three MA students and one BA student and acts as a bridge between the Centre and the student community. The primary responsibilities of the Committee are to produce content for social media to increase awareness about academic integrity, organizing social media campaigns, curating materials for students, and helping to conduct events organized by the Centre. The Student Committee is open to collaboration at both national and international levels.
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Integrity in Education for Future Happiness
By Zeenath Reza Khan
ENAI's 6th International Conference Plagiarism Across Europe and Beyond 2020 (PAEB2020) was a milestone for ENAI. Although we were intending to hold it face to face in Dubai, UAE, due to the global pandemic, we were able to experience a virtual conference for the first time.
After the conference authors were invited to submit full papers based on the presentations they delivered at the conference, which became chapters in an edited book "Integrity in Education for Future Happiness". Fifteen chapters were accepted representing 25 authors and geographical locations ranging from UAE to Hungary, Slovakia, Japan, Sweden, Canada, Bangladesh, Montenegro, USA, and UK.
The chapters provide a wide plethora of research work from looking at teacher training, to pedagogy, to big data and plagiarism, digital forensics and plagiarism, detection systems, policies, support systems to help students, drivers and enablers of such challenging behaviours, teaching ethics and so much more. The book was edited by Dr Zeenath Reza Khan (UOWD UAE), Professor Christopher Hill (BUID UAE) and Dr Tomas Foltynek (ENAI) and published by Mendel University Press, Czech Republic.
The UOWD core conference committee, which won the 2021 ENAI Special Award for COVID19 response, organised a book launch this year at the Sharjah International Book Fair, one of the largest in the world, for the edited book. The book, aptly dedicated to late Tracey Bretag, was unveiled by Ms Lynn Stanbridge from Sharjah Private Education Authority (UAE), surrounded by co-authors, editors, friends, family and other participants that enjoyed the talks and the discussions on academic integrity and student well-being.
The book is available as an online version here, and a physical copy may be purchased through the ENAI Shop here. A review of the book is available from the International Journal for Educational Integrity (SpringerNature) by Dr Irene Glendinning here. Congratulations to all involved!
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Bridging Integrity in Higher Education, Business and Society: Project Meeting in Brno and Invitation
We have already informed you about the Bridge Erasmus+ project involving ENAI members (Uppsala University and Mendel University in Brno) and partners from Lithuania, North Macedonia and Ukraine. Bridge seeks to create a bridge of intersectoral integrity by deepening the understanding of integrity in higher education, business, and society and by providing relevant skills needed to act in accordance with the values of academic ethics.
The project started already in 2020, but only this October, there was the first face-to-face meeting which took place in Brno. The main aim of the meeting was to work together on the project outputs. Regarding the outputs, you can look forward to the academic integrity checklists for master and PhD students and their supervisors, and gamified cases of academic and research integrity (we have already seen illustrations for the game from the Ukrainian partner and they are astonishing).
Invitation to Contribute to the Bridge Project
If you are a person who has knowledge and experience with Citizen Science (CS) you are kindly invited to share your insights on topics indicated here.
Your examples and insights might be used for developing the Guidelines for Ethical CS and educational material with gamified cases in the frame of the Bridge project. Your answers will serve to create educational material for Master Students, PhD and Supervisors.
We would appreciate it if you answered the questions by 20th of January 2022. |
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Essay Mills to be Banned in UK
On 5th October, the UK government agreed to make it illegal in England for companies and individuals to provide materials (essays, exam answers, etc) and unauthorised support for students (aged 16 and above) that contribute to their assessed work. Advertising such services will also be illegal. The legislation is included in the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill. There are more details in the official press release from the UK government. The latest information, (with thanks to Michael Draper and QAA’s Gareth Crossman), is that the bill is now at the Report Stage and is expected to receive “Royal Assent” in January or February 2022, then come into force a few months later. This legislation only applies to England, because the devolved governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are responsible for their own educational policies. It was timely and convenient to include the legislation with the Skills bill, but this means it will only apply to post-16 education. |
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TEQSA Successful in Federal Court Action to Block Access to Cheating Website
Australia's Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) obtained a Federal Court order that requires carriage service providers to block access to the website Assignmenthelp4you.com. The Federal Court made the decision on 114B of the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Act 2011 (TEQSA Act).
Find more details in an article by TEQSA. |
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Tools Supporting Plagiarism Detection: Ouriginal is Becoming Part of Turnitin
This change in the world of tools supporting plagiarism detection has been announced earlier this year. It was confirmed on 30th November.
Owner of Ouriginal - Procuritas VI, divested their shares of Ouriginal to Turnitin. Current customers of Ouriginal won't experience any change of their service now. Nevertheless, with time an integration of the products can be expected. Read more details in the statement published by Ouriginal. |
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We will approach you with the regular newsletter in two months. If you want to share with us, and with other recipients, any interesting news from your country or some curiosities from the area of academic integrity, we will welcome your contributions. Please send them to info@academicintegrity.eu.
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Sincerely yours
European Network for Academic Integrity team
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