It's now the closing ceremony for
#ECEIA2023 #AcademicIntegrity
so it will now be back to regular programming, i.e. boosts and the occasional toot!
Hope this was useful for someone.

Final session! Debbie De (Aston University) is running a workshop on "Enhancing academic practice in Higher Education - how to you do it?"

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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:

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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!

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Stephanas Lim is now presenting on "UK Universities policy responses to Artificial Intelligence (AI) related academic misconduct in undergraduate studies."

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Loreta Tauginiené is now presenting about the
Journal of Academic Ethics (JAET): Addressing and Publishing ethical issues in post-secondary education and beyond

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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.

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Recommendation CM/Rec(2022)22
of the Committee of Ministers to member States
on human rights principles and guidelines on age assessment in the context of
migration and its Explanatory Memorandum

(from 14 December 2022)

https://rm.coe.int/0900001680a96350

It is (obviously) missing a direct reference to AI-generated text.

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The US American Federal Trade Commission has initiated an investigation into OpenAI. They are looking into data harvesting issues, personal reputation defamation, and other consumer issues.

The Washington Post has an article on it at

https://wapo.st/3DwDKqV

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Ready to start into day 3 of the conference with Michael Draper presenting on the Recommendation CM/Rec (2022) of the Committee of MInisters to member States [of the Council of Europe] on countering Education Fraud

(Irene: Thank you for getting up in the morning to listen to a talk by a lawyer!)

Draper is one of the people responsible for championing the new criminal offense of #ContractCheating in the UK.

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Martine Peters (Université du Québec en Outaouais) is presenting the final talk for today on "Private and Public Schools: Are they the same when it comes to plagiarism prevention?"

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Clare Johnson of the University of South Wales is now speaking about her disseration on "Investigating indicators of academic misconduct through forensic analysis"

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“The employer pretends to need a degree; the employee pretends to have one” (Johnson, 2006) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=925243

In Canada it is necessary to have a university degree (at least a bachelor's degree) in order to work at Starbucks...

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Sarah E Eaton & Jamie Carmichael are now talking about "The Ecosystem of Commercial Academic Fraud: The Academic
Underworld of Contract Cheating, Admissions Fraud, Contract Cheating and Paper Mills"

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Ajrina Hysaj from the University of Wollongong in Dubai is now presenting on "Exploring Perceptions and Perspectives on Quality Assurance and Plagiarism in EFL Classes"

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Now that contract cheating is forbidden in the UK (it is illegal to advertise such services and illegal to work with students in this manner, the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill was passed in 2022, https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2022/04/28/essay-mills-are-now-illegal-skills-minister-calls-on-internet-service-providers-to-crack-down-on-advertising/), the question is whether AI will put them completely out of business?

The answer is no, the companies still seem to be in business, suggesting that students use a VPN to access the "service"

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After an outing to Kedleston Hall we now have a panel discussion "Global views on academic integrity from UK perspectives". Irene Glendinning is discussing with Sandie Dann, Michael Draper, & Thomas Lancaster who all participate in local networks for academic integrity. Sandie is in the Midlands group, Thomas in London and Southeast and Michael in Wales.

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Now Sarah E. Eaton, the editor-in -chief of the International Journal for Educational Integrity (IJEI) https://edintegrity.biomedcentral.com/ that was founded by Tracey Bretag and Helen Titchener, presents on: Publishing with IJEI in the fields of academic integrity and beyond.

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Yuliia Lomzhets & Oksana Bronevytska are now speaking about "Anti-corruption compliance in higher education: Foreign experience and Ukrainian practice" They are part of the Association of Legal Clinics of Ukraine that look at identifying and overcoming risks of corruption in higher education institutions. They have developed legal educaiton posters about fighting corruption, as well as videos and blogs. They work with students and anti-corruptions officers.

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Excellent #ECEIA2023 keynote from Dr Mary Davis today, encouraging delegates to develop inclusive practice in their #academicintegrity work and to reflect on their practice.