Conference in 2017
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Conference Proceedings
Conference Videos
Tracey Ann Bretag – Evidence-based responses to contract cheating
Tomáš Foltýnek – European Network for Academic Integrity
Goa Borrek – Turnitin: a Journey in academic integrity
James Bennett – Accepting the Unacceptable: Why Percentages are not your Friend
Jeffrey Beall – Plagiarism is Everywhere: Detecting and Reporting Plagiarism in Predatory Journals
Ali Tahmazov, Cristina Costiniuc – Role of politics in academic plagiarism
Calin Rus – Competences for Democratic Culture a reference and a tool for promoting academic integrity
Phil Newton – Pouring ALE on contract cheating
Discussion panel – Strategies for addressing contract cheating
Conference Programme
| Wednesday 24th May 2017 | ||||||
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| 8:00 | 9:00 | Registration | ||||
| Room 1: Opening and keynote presentations Session chair: Tomas Foltynek |
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| 9:00 | 9:10 | Tomáš Foltýnek | Mendel University in Brno – head of the conference organization committee | Opening speech | ||
| 9:10 | 9:15 | Samuel Antwi Darkwah | Vice Rector of Mendel University in Brno | Welcome speech | ||
| 9:15 | 9:20 | Villano Qiriazi | Head of the Education Policy Division, DGII-Democracy, Council of Europe | Welcome speech | ||
| 9:20 | 9:25 | Robert Plaga | Deputy Minister of Education, youth and sports of the Czech Republic | Greeting | ||
| 9:30 | 10:20 | Tracey Bretag | University of South Australia, Australia | Evidence-based responses to contract cheating | ||
| 10:20 | 11:00 | Tomáš Foltýnek | Mendel University in Brno | European Network for Academic Integrity | ||
| 11:00 | 11:30 | Coffee break | ||||
| Room 1: Keynote presentations Session chair: Teddi Fishman |
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| 11:30 | 12:20 | Jeffrey Beall | University of Colorado Denver\’s Auraria Library | Plagiarism is Everywhere: Detecting and Reporting Plagiarism in Predatory Journals and Other Publications | ||
| 12:20 | 12:40 | Goa Borrek | Turnitin | Turnitin: a Journey in academic integrity | ||
| 12:40 | 13:00 | James Bennett | Urkund | Accepting the Unacceptable: Why Percentages are not your Friend | ||
| 13:00 | 14:00 | Lunch | ||||
| Room 1: Best practices and strategies for awareness, prevention, detection of academic misconduct Session chair: Shiva Sivasubramaniam |
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| 14:00 | 14:20 | Anna Michalska | Coventry University, United Kingdom | Plagiarism? I know a definition, but I don’t know what it means… | ||
| 14:20 | 14:40 | Inga Gaizauskaite | Mykolas Romeris university, Lithuania | Sources of (un)ethical behaviour of students | ||
| 14:40 | 15:00 | Erik Borg | Coventry University, United Kingdom | Intertextuality reconsidered | ||
| 15:00 | 15:20 | Petra Hauptfeld-Goellner, Natascha Miljkovic | Agency “Zitier-Weise”, Austria | To whom belongs the idea? Discussing plagiarism at universities from the perspective of ownership | ||
| 15:20 | 15:40 | Kate Rowbotham | Smith School of Business, Canada | Making Sense of Prosocial Explanations for Violations of Academic Integrity | ||
| 15:40 | 16:00 | Marco Cosentino | University of Insubria, Italy | Honorary authors and unwitting: personal experience with a journal from a publisher included in the Beall\’s list of predatory publishers | ||
| Room 4: Internationalisation, student mobility and academic integrity Session chair: Debora Weber-Wulff |
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| 14:00 | 14:20 | Eckhard Burkatzki | Technical University (TU) Dresden – International Institute Zittau, Germany | Cultural differences regarding expected utilities and costs of plagiarism – a comparison of high-trust and low-trust student samples | ||
| 14:20 | 14:40 | Amanda McKenzie, Jo Hinchliffe | University of Waterloo;Simon Fraser University, Canada | Integrity Insights From India | ||
| 14:40 | 15:00 | Stephen Gow | University of York, United Kingdom | Exploring academic integrity through the lens of critical theory: Mainland Chinese students’ epistemological adaptation to studying on UK Master’s programmes | ||
| 15:00 | 15:20 | Bob Ives | University of Nevada, Reno, USA | Predictors of Academic Dishonesty: A Meta-analysis | ||
| 15:20 | 15:40 | Bob Ives | University of Nevada, Reno, USA | Patterns and Predictors of Academic Dishonesty in Romania and Moldova | ||
| 15:40 | 16:00 | Muhammad Soroya | Punjab Higher Education Commission, Pakistan | Status of Academic Integrity in Pakistan: An Overview | ||
| Room 6: Sponsors\’ workshops | ||||||
| 14:00 | 15:00 | Gill Rowell | Turnitin | Workshop: What does academic integrity mean to me? Views from the the real word | ||
| 15:00 | 16:00 | Rachel Crookes | Epigeum | Workshop: Teaching academic integrity online: Using e-learning to educate students and support staff | ||
| Room 7: Best practices and strategies for awareness, prevention, detection of academic misconduct | ||||||
| 14:00 | 15:00 | Evangeline Mourelatos | Deree – The American College of Greece, Greece | Workshop: Tackling the Tariff: Aligning Best Practices and Aiming for Equity | ||
| 15:00 | 16:00 | Ansgar Schäfer, Dita Dlabolova, Loreta Tauginiene | University of Konstanz, Mendel University in Brno, Mykolas Romeris University | Workshop: European Network for Academic Integrity – project outputs | ||
| 16:00 | 16:30 | Coffee break | ||||
| Room 1: Best practices and strategies for awareness, prevention, detection of academic misconduct Session chair: Inga Gazauskaite |
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| 16:30 | 16:50 | Andrzej Kurkiewicz | Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland | Academic Integrity and plagiarism in Poland | ||
| 16:50 | 17:10 | Andrei Rostovtsev | IITP RAS, Russia | Plagiarism in the dissertations and scientific publications in Russia | ||
| 17:10 | 17:30 | Ines Friss de Kereki | Universidad ORT Uruguay, Uruguay | Detecting academic misconduct in introductory computer science courses | ||
| Room 4: Innovation in use of e-tools and technologies for addressing plagiarism Session chair: Milan Ojsteršek |
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| 16:30 | 16:50 | Alice Schmidt Hanbidge, Amanda McKenzie | Renison University College, University of Waterloo, Canada | Foundation for Academic Success: Academic Integrity | ||
| 16:50 | 17:10 | Julius Kravjar | CVTI SR, Slovakia | Pan-European Repository of Theses and Dissertations and Pan-European Plagiarism Detection | ||
| 17:10 | 17:30 | Michal Ďuračík | University of Žilina, Slovakia | Using concepts of text based plagiarism detection in source code plagiarism analysis | ||
| Room 6: Contract cheating including ghost-writing and essay mills | ||||||
| 16:30 | 17:30 | Rui Sousa-Silva | University of Porto, Portugal | Workshop: Detecting plagiarism and contract cheating: new academic integrity challenges | ||
| Room 7: Best practices and strategies for awareness, prevention, detection of academic misconduct | ||||||
| 16:30 | 17:30 | Christopher Haycock | Coventry Univerity, United Kingdom | Workshop: Using a structured and robust method of enquiry in the investigation of academic dishonesty. | ||
| 19:30 | 23:00 | Conference dinner in VIDA! Science center | ||||
| Thursday 25th May 2017 | ||||||
| 8:00 | 9:00 | Registration | ||||
| Room 1: Keynote presentations Session chair: Villano Qiriazi |
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| 9:00 | 9:50 | Calin Rus | Intercultural Institute of Timisoara | Competences for Democratic Culture a reference and a tool for promoting academic integrity | ||
| 9:50 | 10:40 | Phil Newton | Swansea University, UK | Pouring ALE on contract cheating. Recent developments in strategies to tackle ghostwriting and Essay Mills using Assessment design, Legal approaches and stakeholder Education | ||
| 10:40 | 11:20 | Ali Tahmazov, Cristina Costiniuc | StrikePlagiarism | Role of politics in academic plagiarism | ||
| 11:00 | 11:30 | Coffee break + Poster session | ||||
| Room 1: National and local responses to plagiarism Session chair: Thomas Lancaster |
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| 11:30 | 11:50 | Irene Glendinning | Coventry University, United Kingdom | Exploring Issues Challenging Academic Integrity in South East Europe | ||
| 11:50 | 12:10 | Gábor Király | Budapest Business School, Hungary | Parallel Universes: Cheating at the University. Comparing lecturers’ and students’ understanding of student cheating | ||
| 12:10 | 12:30 | Salim Razı | Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey | Investigating policies for plagiarism and academic integrity: The case of Turkey | ||
| 12:30 | 12:50 | Jonathan Kasler | Tel Hai College, Israel | Academic integrity in higher education: The case of a medium-size college in the Galilee, Israel | ||
| Working papers presentation and discussion | ||||||
| 12:50 | 13:10 | Emilia Sercan | University of Bucharest, Romania | Working paper: Plagiarism in Ph.D. theses. A case study of military universities in Romania | ||
| 13:10 | 13:30 | Chloe Walker | University of Oxford, United Kingdom | Working paper: Nairobi Shadow Academy: A Study of Contract Cheaters (Academic Writers) in Kenya | ||
| Room 4: Contract cheating including ghost-writing and essay mills | ||||||
| 11:30 | 12:30 | Michael Draper | Swansea University, United Kingdom | Workshop: Legal approaches to tackling Essay Mills and ‘Contract Cheating’ | ||
| 12:30 | 13:30 | Brian Schumacher | University of Regina | Workshop: Three strikes and out | ||
| Room 5:Best practices and strategies for awareness, prevention, detection of academic misconduct | ||||||
| 11:30 | 12:30 | Alexandra Pitt | Middlesex University, United Kingdom | Workshop: Divergent Thinking, Diverse Practices, and Unified Integrity | ||
| Innovation in use of e-tools and technologies for addressing plagiarism | ||||||
| 12:30 | 13:30 | Amanda McKenzie | University of Waterloo, Canada | Workshop: Foundation for Academic Success | ||
| 13:30 | 14:30 | Lunch | ||||
| 14:30 | 23:00 | Sightseeing trip to Slavkov and wine cellar | ||||
| Friday 26th May 2017 | ||||||
| 8:00 | 9:00 | Registration | ||||
| Room 1: Contract cheating including ghost-writing and essay mills Session chair: Salim Razi |
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| 9:00 | 9:20 | Thomas Lancaster | Staffordshire University, United Kingdom | Rethinking Assessment By Examination In The Age Of Contract Cheating | ||
| 9:20 | 9:40 | Trudy Somers | Northcentral University, USA | Contract cheating: A consideration of social learning, organizational citizenship and global dimensions | ||
| 9:40 | 10:00 | Wendy Sutherland-Smith | Deakin University, Australia | Contract cheating: What do student advocates think? | ||
| 10:00 | 10:20 | Veronika Králíková | Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic | Analysis of Ghostwriting market in Czechia | ||
| 10:20 | 10:40 | Patrick Juola | Duquesne University, USA | Detecting Contract Cheating via Stylometric Methods | ||
| Room 4: Best practices and strategies for awareness, prevention, detection of academic misconduct Session chair: Laura Ribeiro |
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| 9:00 | 9:20 | Irene Glendinning | Coventry University, United Kingdom | Scorecard for Academic Integrity Development: Benchmarks and evaluation of institutional strategies | ||
| 9:20 | 9:40 | Loreta Tauginiene | Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania | Comprehensive framework for fostering responsible research: Lithuania | ||
| 9:40 | 10:00 | Daniel Jakubík | Masaryk University, Czech Republic | Institutional Repository Driven by Access Rights as a Part of Plagiarism Detection Systems | ||
| 10:00 | 10:20 | Milan Ojsteršek | University of Maribor, Slovenia | The organisational and technical aspects of establishing plagiarism detection processes in the Slovenian open access infrastructure | ||
| 10:20 | 10:40 | Christopher Rieber | Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia | Using Electronic Plagiarism Tools to Teach University Students to Avoid Plagiarism | ||
| Room 5: Innovation in use of e-tools and technologies for addressing plagiarism | ||||||
| 9:00 | 10:00 | Ali Tahmazov, Oleksandr Striamets | Plagiat.pl, Ukraine | Workshop: Сhallenges met at former USSR countries in combat of academic plagiarism | ||
| 10:00 | 11:00 | Patrick Hilt | Swiss Academic Software, Germany | Workshop: How reference management programs can help to reduce plagiarism by mistake | ||
| 11:00 | 11:30 | Coffee break | ||||
| Room 1: Discussion panel: Strategies for addressing contract cheating Session chair: Tracey Bretag |
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| 11:30 | 12:30 | Participants: | Phil Newton – Swansea University Thomas Lancaster – Staffordshire University Chloe Walker – Oxford University Shiva Sivasubramaniam- Nottingham Trent University |
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| Room 1: Closing and keynote presentations Session chair: Tracey Bretag |
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| 12:30 | 13:20 | Teddi Fishman | Former Director, ICAI, USA | Experiential Learning, Authenticity, and Improvisation in the Service of Academic Integrity | ||
| 13:20 | 13:25 | Salim Razı | Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University,Turkey | Invitation to Plagiarism across Europe and Beyond 2018 | ||
| 13:25 | 13:30 | Tomáš Foltýnek | Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic | Closing speech | ||
| 13:30 | 14:30 | Lunch | ||||
| 16:00 | 18:00 | Brno city sightseeing tour | ||||
