Activity 3.2 Promoting Academic Integrity
Completion requirements
Objective (AIM):
To promote academic integrity in your own institution.
Motivation (WHY): To build up expertise in promoting academic integrity in higher education.
WHO: The initial parts of this activity are individual, and then you need to form an interest group at your institution, and confer with them in undertaking the rest of this activity.
Preparation/Resources: You should refer to current internet resources published between 2010 to the present.
Questions to explore:
- What are the strategies used by higher learning institutions in promoting academic integrity?
- Find institutional policies covering academic dishonesty cases. Describe how effective do you think they would be in your own institution. Identify weaknesses and suggest improvement on the policies.
- What is the prevalence of dishonest cases in higher education?
- How can higher academic institutions discourage academic dishonesty?
Tool: Discussion forum
Duration: 90 minutes
Activity:
WHAT: (to do)
- Browse the internet and select at least 2 academic papers on promoting academic integrity. Make a note of the papers that you have selected, and save the link to access them.
- Review, discuss and record your findings. Summarise the views and the methodology used. You should include notes on particular aspects to which you would like to draw the group's attention.
- Working with your institutional group, investigate what strategies are already in place at your own insitution. Record these.
- Then share your findings and summary with the group, and discuss which of these may be adapted for your institution to supplement their existing approach.
- Share your work with your Dean or someone else senior in your institution
HOW: (to respond to the assigned task)
- Share your results and the findings with you and your group through the discussion forum for this activity.
FEEDBACK: (from the group / facilitators)
- Take a look at the other forum contributions describing the other participants' findings
- Reply and comment on at least 1 other participant's review comments / findings.
Assessment:
Completion of this activity will count towards your course portfolio
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