2024 Australasian Academic Integrity Network Forum
2024 Australasian Academic Integrity Network Forum
Friday, 6 September, 2024
This free online event provides a forum for sharing knowledge, best practice and key questions in the challenging and fast-paced field of academic integrity.
The 2024 Forum will consist of keynote speakers, panels, roundtable discussions, digital posters, and case studies/workshops on good practice. Click on the link below to download a summary of the program for the Forum; once registered you will be sent the full program with abstracts about a week before the Forum. The attached summary of the program is accurate as at 20 August, and shows all Forum sessions, including details of the digital posters that will be available from Monday, 2 September for you to view and add comments and questions.
Download a summary of the program for the Forum.
All keynote speakers, panels and roundtable discussions at the 2024 Forum will be recorded and these recordings will be made available to those who had registered.
The 2024 Forum is proudly co-hosted by Curtin University and Deakin University.
Key themes
The key themes for the 2024 Forum have shaped the roundtable discussions, digital posters, workshops and case studies.
1. Curriculum and assessment design to support academic integrity
- Supporting AI fluency
- Programmatic design to support academic integrity
- Learning design to meet the needs of current students in the context of available tools, and needs of future work
- Best practice – exemplars of secured assessment
- Academic integrity resources for students and staff
- Other academic integrity research
2. Practical solutions for managing integrity breaches
- Methods for detecting and managing misconduct
- Case management systems and efficiencies/workload
- Managing inappropriate use of Gen-AI
- File sharing and real time assessment help (e.g. Chegg, take down requests)
- Case studies
3. Academic integrity in the age of Gen-AI and contract cheating
- Pros: ethical and beneficial uses of Gen-AI:
- Case studies
- Pedagogical considerations for Gen-AI
- Cons: Academic Integrity pitfalls with the use of Gen-AI and ways to flip it
- Debate: The pros and cons of using Gen-AI content detectors
- The changing landscape of contract cheating
- Contract cheating in the Gen-AI environment
4. Inclusion, equity, and academic integrity support for students
- Current student perspectives on the student experience
- Digital literacy – what do students think they need to know?
- Reframing student sense of responsibility (students as partners)
- Indigenous perspectives on academic integrity
- International student perspectives on academic integrity
- Equitable access to Gen-AI tools and skills
- AI ethics/bias/discrimination
- Learner diversity
- Ideas for Improvement
- Onboarding/orientation
- Collaboration across different levels of education
2024 Key speakers
Dr Rebecca Awdry
Rebecca is a leader and researcher in the field of academic integrity, with experience in the UK and Australia. Her research focusses on the factors that lead students to engage in dishonest practices, particularly assignment outsourcing, as well as the impact that things such as exam security can have on the integrity of student exams. Rebecca is an Honorary Fellow with CRADLE at Deakin. She is currently working as a private consultant supporting institutions in their endeavours to strengthen academic integrity.
Professor Cecilia K. Y. Chan
Professor Cecilia Chan, a Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), has a dual-discipline background: engineering and education, particularly higher education. Her combined expertise in these fields has enabled her to lead and conduct research on topics such as assessment and feedback, experiential learning, and technology-enhanced learning, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence in education and the development and assessment of 21st-century skills (holistic competencies). Prof. Chan serves as the President of the Asian Society for Engineering Education and is an associate editor for both the Journal of Engineering Education and Studies in Educational Evaluation. Her book Generative AI in Higher Education: The ChatGPT Effect, commissioned by Routledge, was published in March 2024 and is the first of its kind in exploring the intersection of Generative AI and Higher Education. Prof. Chan has been invited as keynote to share her work by many organisations worldwide including UNESCO, QS Summit, Harvard, Oxford, UCL, Sydney University. In addition, her work is being adopted by software companies and organisations particularly on the accreditation of holistic competencies and AI Literacy. More information can be found in the Teaching and Learning Enhancement and Research Group (TLERG) website: http://tlerg.talic.hku.hk/ .
Professor Phill Dawson
Professor Phillip (Phill) Dawson is the Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE) at Deakin University. Phill is most known for his research on feedback, cheating and artificial intelligence in assessment.
In his cheating and artificial intelligence research, Phill is currently collaborating with Deakin colleagues on a major project into how to design assessment that is valid and appropriate for a time of artificial intelligence. This project builds on work funded by the Australian higher education regulator TEQSA, which he was one of the leads of.
Phill is a regular contributor to public debate on higher education. His work has been featured on ABC TV, The Australian, The Age, Times Higher Education, the BBC, VICE, Vox, and the Financial Times, and discussed in the Australian parliament. In his spare time, Phill performs comedy, including in the academia-themed improv show The Peer Revue, which he also produces.
Professor Cath Ellis
Professor Cath Ellis is an independent education consultant. Previously she has undertaken education and educational leadership roles for the Universities of Wollongong, Huddersfield, New South Wales and Sydney.
While her background is in Australian and Postcolonial Literature, her main research is in academic integrity with a particular interest in contract cheating.
In 2019, the Times Higher Education named her as one of their people of the year for her work in this area.
She is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA) and in 2010 was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.
Dr. Helen Gniel
Helen is the Director of the Higher Education Integrity Unit at the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) and co-Chair of the Global Academic Integrity Network.
Dr Gniel joined TEQSA to establish the Higher Education Integrity Unit in January of 2021, following a 20 year career in Australia’s higher education sector as a scientist, academic, and quality assurance professional.
Prior to commencing as the inaugural director of the Higher Education Integrity Unit, Dr Gniel served as Senior Advisor, Quality and Standards at Monash University, and as an academic at the Australian National University.
Associate Professor Jason Lodge
Jason is a Deputy Associate Dean (Academic) in the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Queensland and Director of the Learning, Instruction and Technology Lab in the School of Education. Recently, Jason has been focused on the evolving role of AI in education. He serves as an expert advisor to the OECD and Australian National Task Force on Artificial Intelligence in Education and led the Assessment Experts Forum in partnership with the TEQSA. The resulting resource, Assessment Reform for the Age of Artificial Intelligence, is being used across education sectors in Australia and around the world to rethink assessment in light of the emergence of generative AI. His most recent work, in partnership with the Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success (ACSES), has been on developing a national framework for AI in higher education, a translation of the Australian Framework for Generative Artificial Intelligence in Schools.
Derek Newton
Derek Newton has spent twenty years in government and politics and is a media and PR strategist. He is a popular publisher and writer on education including the popular newsletter on academic integrity, “The Cheat Sheet.”
Derek is a recognised panellist, event moderator, and keynote speaker on assessment and integrity and has been named one of ten education influencers to follow in 2024. Derek has published in The Atlantic, Washington Post, NBC News, Money Magazine, and others and is a contributor at Forbes. Derek is also the founder of AdStorm (www.myadstorm.com) and AdTech, and Publisher of the EdTech Chronicle.
Associate Professor Jason Stephens
Jason M. Stephens is an Associate Professor in the School of Learning, Development, and Professional Practice at The University of Auckland. In addition to teaching courses on human learning and motivation at the university, Jason serves as an Academic Integrity Advisor for the Faculty of Education and Social Work, a member of the University Discipline Committee, and the Principal Investigator of the Research on Academic Integrity in New Zealand (RAINZ) Project. He is also the Vice President of Research and Outreach for the International Center for Academic Integrity, a member of the Executive Board for the Association for Moral Education, and serves on the Editorial Boards for the Journal of Moral Education and the International Journal for Educational Integrity. His primary research interests include human motivation, ethical functioning, cheating behaviour, and the promotion of academic integrity. He is a co-author of two books on schooling and moral development (Educating Citizens and Creating a Culture of Academic Integrity) as well as numerous journal articles and other publications related to motivation, morality, and misconduct among secondary and post-secondary students.
Register for the Forum
Registration is open to academic and professional staff working in the higher education sector in Australia and New Zealand.
You must use your institutional email address to register; requests that come from personal email addresses will not be accepted.
2024 Forum hosts
The 2024 AAIN Academic Integrity Forum is hosted by Curtin University and Deakin University.
The AAIN thanks them for their significant contribution to the event.
Dr Davis is Academic Integrity Lead and Principal Lecturer for Education and the Student Experience in the Business School, Oxford Brookes University, UK. She has been a researcher of plagiarism and academic integrity since 2005. She co-authored the study skills book ‘Referencing and Understanding Plagiarism’ and has written book chapters including ‘How much can you copy?’, ‘Inclusion in academic integrity: improving policy, pedagogy and practice’, and a recent IJEI article ‘Examining and improving inclusive practice in institutional academic integrity policies, procedures, teaching and support’. She has led a collaborative project across four universities that joins up academic integrity experts, inclusion experts and students in the development of inclusive teaching resources. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Centre for Academic Integrity (ICAI) and was a keynote at the European Network for Academic Integrity (ENAI) Conference 2023.
