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.

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.

The 2023 AAIN Forum

The third annual Australasian Academic Integrity Network Forum was held on Friday, 22 September, with over 1300 registrations.

The 2023 Forum consisted of keynote speakers, panels, roundtable discussions, digital posters, and case studies/workshops on good practice and we expect that the 2024 Forum will follow a similar structure. The detailed information below will give you an idea of what to expect in 2024.

Download the program for the 2023 Forum.

All keynote speakers, panels and roundtable discussions at the Forum were recorded and these recordings have been made available to those who had registered.

The 2023 Forum was proudly co-hosted by the University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia.

Note: AAIN members can access to the full program, session recordings and digital posters via the members area. Members can contact us to gain access.

Key themes

The key themes for the 2023 Forum shaped the roundtable discussions, digital posters, workshops and case studies.

2023 Keynotes and panel sessions

Keynote: Promoting inclusive practice in academic integrity through Universal Design for Learning and creating a culture of academic integrity for everyone

Presenter: Dr Mary Davis PFHEA

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.

Abstract
This session aims to promote inclusive practice in academic integrity through discussion of the following areas:
1. Considering Equity, Diversity and Inclusion issues in academic integrity
2. Embedding UDL guidelines in institutional academic integrity policies
3. Bringing in an educational route to institutional academic conduct procedures
4. Embedding UDL in academic integrity teaching
5. Creating a culture of academic integrity for everyone

Panel: Big Questions in Artificial Intelligence and Academic Integrity

Presenters:

• Associate Professor Jason Lodge, University of Queensland
• Associate Professor Danny Liu, University of Sydney
• Assistant Professor Tomáš Foltynek, Masaryk University, Czechia
• Panel Chair: Professor Lisa Hanna, Dean of Students, Deakin University.

Join experts on academic integrity and artificial intelligence for a lively panel discussion on the two AIs. What is front of mind for our panel members, what do they see ahead, and what does this mean for education and integrity?

Student Panel: Navigating integrity through higher education and beyond

• Kali Ivancevic , University of South Australia
• Lev Villamar-Hely, University of Waikato   
• Candice Rego, University of Adelaide
• Jackson Edwards, Western Sydney University 
• Panel chairs: Dr Jen Tindale (Western Sydney University) and Claudia Gottlwald (University of Adelaide)

Our student panel explores the experience and perspectives of students from different cohorts as they encounter academic and professional integrity at key stages of their journey through and beyond higher education. Hear directly from students about how to foster a culture of integrity among students and their experience of effective approaches and messages. First and final-year students from different educational backgrounds will share their experience of integrity at key transition points, as they enter higher education and as they prepare to graduate. Students will discuss integrity challenges they have faced at different points in their journey. How do they understand academic integrity and the role of integrity in the workplace? What messages and approaches to integrity most resonate with them?  Don’t miss this opportunity to be inspired by students who will shape the future of integrity.

Panel: Academic integrity leadership

Presenters:

• Professor Esther May, Pro Vice-Chancellor Teaching and Learning, University of South Australia
• Professor Jennie Shaw, Deputy Vice-Chancellor & Vice-President (Academic), University of Adelaide
• Emeritus Professor Bernie Marshall, Deakin University, founder of the Australasian Academic Integrity Network
• Dr Helen Gniel, Director, Higher Education Integrity Unit, TEQSA
• Dr Grant Klinkum, Chief Executive, NZQA
• Professor James Adonopoulos, IHEA Director and Academic Dean of Kaplan Business School
• Panel Chair: Dr Jasmine Thomas, Associate Director (Academic Integrity & Evaluation), University Southern Queensland

The Academic Integrity Leadership panel will deep-dive into the critical aspects of academic integrity, regulation and change. Our leaders will discuss the role of leadership in managing change, sharing valuable lessons from their own experience. They will explore complex issues and reveal strategies used to maintain compliance and uphold institutional missions. Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of the conversation that is shaping the future of academic integrity.

Other Committee members:

Adil Abbas, Australia Industrial Systems Institute
Ali Al-Rubaie, Swinburne University of Technology
Bernie Marshall, Deakin University
Carolyn Wolsey, University of Tasmania
Christine Slade, University of Queensland
Clare Singh, Charles Sturt University
Claudia Gottwald, University of Adelaide
David Morgan, Polytechnic Institute Australia
Glenda Hepplewhite, Navitas
Janine Arantes, Victoria University
Jasmine Thomas, University of Southern Queensland,