John Paul Foxe and Amy Lin are giving the final session on "Evaluating the efficacy of gamified tutorials to promote academic integrity in online education" as part of the project "Academic Integrity in Cyberspace"
Final session! Debbie De (Aston University) is running a workshop on "Enhancing academic practice in Higher Education - how to you do it?"
After lunch we have a panel discussion on "Where to go next? Embracing new challenges and opportunities in research integrity and ethics, based on lessons learned from EU projects"
The panel members are: Julia Prieß-Buchheit (University of Kiel, Germany), Mariëtte van den Hoven (Amsterdam University Medical Center, Netherlands), Anna Abalkina (Free University Berlin, Germany) & Lisa Diependaele (European Commission). Sonja Bjelobaba is the session chair:
Mike Perkins (British University Vietnam) is reporting now on research he did with Jasper Roe on "Academic integrity policies in higher education institutions: a corpus linguistics investigation of responses to technological threats"
They looked at 142 university policys to see how prepared the HEIs were for new technological threats to academic integrity such as Automated Paraphrasing Tools and Gen-AI Tools.
Thomas Lancaster, Steph Allen & Mary Davis are now speaking about the Benefitsof Academic Integrity Networks, in particular the London and South East Academic Integrity Network.
I really wish we could get such a network set up in Germany!
Stephanas Lim is now presenting on "UK Universities policy responses to Artificial Intelligence (AI) related academic misconduct in undergraduate studies."
Key takeaways from legal expert Michael Draper’s #ECEIA2023 #academicintegrity keynote:
1. AI regulation is coming. Firms will have to pay copyright charges and the era of “free” may be ending. Environmental costs will also have to be factored in.
2. ChatGPT can solve standard educational legal problems to a high quality. Students will have to return to an invigilated setting for the assessment of foundational knowledge.
3. The next academic integrity is performance enhancement, whether through drugs or implants. Students do not see this as a problem, but will this lead to an unfair system?
I stress this is my interpretation of everything Michael said, not necessarily my views, but there’s certainly pause for thought there.
Loreta Tauginiené is now presenting about the
Journal of Academic Ethics (JAET): Addressing and Publishing ethical issues in post-secondary education and beyond
Recommendation CM/Rec (2022)18 of the Committee of Ministers to member States [of the Council of Europe] on countering Education Fraud
(Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 13 July 2022
at the 1440th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)
https://rm.coe.int/ok-prems-137222-gbr-2512-cmrec-2022-18-et-expose-motifs-a5-web-1-/1680a96147
Obviously, it does not address AI-generated text explicitly, but one can assume that this recommendation can be applied to it as well.
Debora Weber-Wulff
Thomas Lancaster