Supporting and Facilitating Academic Integrity in Distance Education through Student Services

Author(s):  
Brian F. Fox

This chapter briefly describes the growing concern over a lack of academic integrity in higher education and the traditional methods employed to detect and prevent it. Arguing that these possess inherent shortcomings, the author describes a systems approach that incorporates all aspects of student services: admissions, marketing, and orientation; instructional support; instructional technology; library services; and counseling and advocacy. For academic integrity policies and programs to truly be effective, they must be universal and preventative in scope and include all segments of student services and the student body itself. Regular assessment must be conducted and the topic incorporated into professional development. The primary goal for educational institutions should be to foster and support the development of academic integrity in their students.

2011 ◽  
pp. 2049-2060
Author(s):  
Brian F. Fox

This chapter briefly describes the growing concern over a lack of academic integrity in higher education and the traditional methods employed to detect and prevent it. Arguing that these possess inherent shortcomings, the author describes a systems approach that incorporates all aspects of student services: admissions, marketing, and orientation; instructional support; instructional technology; library services; and counseling and advocacy. For academic integrity policies and programs to truly be effective, they must be universal and preventative in scope and include all segments of student services and the student body itself. Regular assessment must be conducted and the topic incorporated into professional development. The primary goal for educational institutions should be to foster and support the development of academic integrity in their students.


2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa McDowell ◽  
Laurie Bedford ◽  
Lyda DiTommaso Downs

<p>Coaching in higher education is a relatively new field; although, it has been taking place in educational institutions for some time, even if it was not labeled as such. This paper describes the faculty development filosophies of a US-based higher education institution with a strong culture of supporting faculty and promoting social change. A coaching model was implemented as a means for professional development. It was designed to be facilitated through a peer relationship and it offers problem-focused, contextualized opportunities for faculty to collaborate, thus making the experience and outcome more meaningful. The coaching model is individualized, confidential, non-evaluative, and incorporates three pathways to support the professional development needs of faculty: self-assigned, a request from college leadership as a means to support faculty in an identified area of need, or the New Faculty Orientation (NFO) instructor may recommend a faculty member for coaching as a way to further engage in topics not discussed in-depth in NFO.</p>


Author(s):  
Monica Ward ◽  

There have been many changes that have taken place in all levels of education since the Covid-19 pandemic, including at Higher Education (HE). While the swift pivot to blended teaching has been challenging and not welcomed by all, there are some positives have come about because of it and it would be good to be able to hold on to these. The challenges include moving learning materials (written, video and audio) online, engaging with students in a constructive manner and how to do assessments that are academically rigorous and have academic integrity. It is difficult for those who are used to teaching in a face-to-face environment to suddenly switch over to developing online resources and know who do this effectively and efficiently. Interacting with students online requires a different skill set than in a face-to-face environment and educators should not be expected to acquire these skills automatically. Closed-book, invigilated exams are the norm in HE institutions and ensure a level of academic integrity that has worked well for many years. It is difficult to switch from this scenario to an open-book, non-invigilated exam. It means that questions have to be re-thought to explore the students’ understanding in an academic rigorous manner. Ideally, it would be good to be able to address these challenges as they mean a less positive experience for both educators and students. The positive aspects include a more flexible approach to teaching and learning, facilitation of different modes of learning and in some cases, more interesting and authentic assessments. A more flexible approach enables students to learn at a time and place that suits them and is in keeping with the needs of the more diverse population that makes up student body in HE today. While there is a debate around learning styles, providing learning materials in a variety of formats is beneficial for all students. While it is definitely more difficult to develop open-book assessments, it is also an opportunity to do more real-world, authentic assessments that assess students’ higher order skills. This moves assessment further along the Bloom’s taxonomy. This paper looks at the challenges and positives outcomes of the move to blended teaching and learning and how the challenges can be addressed, the positive aspects maintained and how a sustainable approach can be adopted to ensure that future changes to teaching are less challenging and more positive.


2020 ◽  
pp. 8-15
Author(s):  
Andrii YAKIVCHENKO ◽  
Svitlana PETROVSKA

Тhe relevance of the topic is due to the need to expand the financial autonomy of higher educational institutions (hereinafter referred to as the HEI) in Ukraine, the need to maximize the generation of their own cash receipts by providing paid services of the HEI, to improve the management efficiency of the HEI in a market economy. The market, with its industries, is in a state of flux. We observe how the needs of sectors of the economy for resources and the level of training of specialists are changing. There is a change in the influence of factors on economic processes, the role of the segments of the regional economy participating in economic processes is changing. The educational complex should contribute to the formation of not only the labor resource of the country. To implement in the field of education and science support of the labor resource at the required level, effectively based on the needs of the regional economy and other resources - industrial. By predetermining the priority sectors in the development of the regional economy, the educational infrastructure of Ukraine should set the vectors for the development of the labor market of the economy as a whole, and not only serve the existing infrastructure of the regional economy. To maximize the satisfaction of the needs of both consumers of educational services and the needs of the regional economy in production resources. The article formed the author's understanding of the concepts of "market", "educational service", "market of paid services that can be provided by HEI", presented the features of the market of paid services that can be provided by HEI in Ukraine, carried out an analysis of the regulatory framework for the provision of paid services by HEI, identified a generalized composition of participants, which are divided into generally recognized and proposed, and developed a road map for the introduction of paid services by HEI. After conducting research in the direction of the chosen topic, it was determined that the formation and development of the educational services market is taking place in accordance with certain global trends, namely: 1) the desire for a democratic education system, that is, the availability of education to the entire population of the country and the continuity of its stages and levels, provision of autonomy and independence to educational institutions; 2) ensuring the right to education for everyone (the opportunity and equal chances for each person to get an education in an educational institution of any type, regardless of nationality and race); 3) the significant influence of socio-economic factors on education (cultural and educational monopoly of certain ethnic minorities, paid forms of education, manifestation of chauvinism and racism); 4) an increase in the range of educational and organizational activities aimed at both satisfying diverse interests and developing the abilities of students; 5) the growth of the educational services market; 6) expanding the network of higher education and changing the social composition of the student body (becoming more democratic); 7) in the field of education management, the search for a compromise between rigid centralization and full autonomy; 8) education is becoming a priority object of funding in the developed countries of the world; 9) constant updating and adjustment of school and university educational programs; 10) a departure from the orientation towards the "average student", an increased interest in gifted children and young people, in the peculiarities of the disclosure and development of their abilities in the process and by means of education; 11) search for additional resources for the education of children with developmental disabilities, children with disabilities. According to the results of the study, the authors proposed to expand the structures characteristic of the educational services market. Insofar as the market for educational services includes many national educational systems, each of which has its own management model, structure, goals, objectives and problems, and the profit from the activities of such structures can also be expanded.


2006 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia M. Christensen Hughes ◽  
Donald L. McCabe

Despite a plethora of research on the academic misconduct carried out by U.S. high school and undergraduate university students, little research has been done on the academic misconduct of Canadian students. This paper addresses this shortcoming by presenting the results of a study conducted at 11 Canadian higher education institutions between January 2002 and March 2003. We maintain that academic misconduct does indeed occur in Canada – amongst high school, undergraduate and graduate students. Common self-reported behaviours were as follows: working on an assignment with others when asked for individual work, getting questions and answers from someone who has already taken a test, copying a few sentences of material without footnoting, fabricating or falsifying lab data, and receiving unauthorized help on an assignment. Possible factors associated with these behaviours include student maturity, perceptions of what constitutes academic misconduct, faculty assessment and invigilation practices, low perceived risk, ineffective and poorly understood policies and procedures, and a lack of education on academic misconduct. Canadian educational institutions are encouraged to address these issues, beginning with a recommitment to academic integrity.


Author(s):  
Artem Artyukhov

The purpose of this chapter is to foster the development of a healthy academic environment, protected from academic dishonesty, and one that creates favorable conditions for professional development and positive educational outcomes. This chapter deals with the main challenges facing Ukrainian universities in the area of academic integrity (AI). The results of a survey of domestic students' opinions via qualitative narratives regarding AI are presented. Successful cases of the implementation of higher education (HE) systems for ensuring AI in Ukrainian universities are considered. A prototype of AI principles to better ensure honesty and integrity are shown. Mechanisms for working with students to incentivize the principles of AI and the factors that can enable fruitful and ‘honest' communication between teachers and students are also highlighted.


2013 ◽  
pp. 1218-1243
Author(s):  
William Heisler ◽  
Fred Westfall ◽  
Robert Kitahara

Challenges to academic integrity in management education appear to be on the rise in U.S. institutions of higher education. In an effort to reduce cheating and plagiarism in business education, universities have turned to a variety of technological approaches. However, technology cannot be considered a panacea for ensuring academic integrity and is probably best viewed as a “stop gap” measure that can eventually be compromised. The authors begin this chapter by describing how declining ethics has been evidenced recently in business. Then, they present a review of the literature describing the extent and causes of academic dishonesty and discuss what some educational institutions are doing to address academic integrity, including calls for an increase in ethics education. Finally, they review technological approaches used by many colleges and universities to prevent cheating and plagiarism, examining the features, strengths, weaknesses, and current status of each technology.


2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracey Bretag

Tricia Bertram Gallant is a prolific writer and passionate advocate for the importance of academic integrity in higher education. In addition to her numerous journal articles, conference and seminar papers, readers will be familiar with her previous books including: Academic integrity in the twenty-first century (ASHE, 2008) and Cheating in schools: What we know and what we can do (with Stephen Davis and Patrick Drinan, Wiley 2009). For a review of the latter, please see IJEI Volume 5(1), 2009. Download PDF to view full review


2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (11) ◽  
pp. 47-53
Author(s):  
O. A. Tashkinova ◽  
A. O. Kalinina

The Subject: Organization of entertainment practices for students’ youth at higher educational institutions. Summary. The article deals with the analysis of the peculiarities of organization of entertainment practices of students youth at the institutions of higher education. It is noted that proper organization of entertainment of those who get higher education is an important task at today’s stage of development of the contemporary society. Attention is paid to the fact that higher educational institutions are to become one of the principal subjects of organization of students’ living space, not only at tuition time but also during free time. Students do need some qualitative and meaningful leisure, oriented, first and foremost at personal and professional development of youthАbstract. Introduction. Organization of educational and tuition process at higher school must correspond to the requirement of time, as well as the requirements and needs of the students. Both organization of the process of tuition at higher school and how students spend their free time acquire some importance. The task of higher educational institutions is to set up such entertainment practice for their students, which will develop personality and promote the required professional competences, increasing the level of youth competitive strength on the contemporary labour market. Analysis of publications. A lot of investigations may be found in pedagogics, devoted to youth education at higher educational institutions, particularly, the works by such scholars, as G. Averyanov, B. Vulfov, A.Davidyuk, R.Kapralov, A Nikitin , to name but a few. At the same time the system of development of entertainment practices within the framework of educational work at higher educational institutions is yet to be theoretically and technologically substantiated. Purpose. The objective of the work is to analyze the peculiarities of social and educational work in respect of forming various entertainment practices for students’ youth, including those for volunteers at higher educational institutions. Results. Students’ youth is a special social and demographic group. Entertainment time of this group is very often dedicated to an intercourse in youth groups, companies of the same age, or in social network. Negative revelations, occuring in the domain of entertainment often happen due to its bad organization, hence, the need to define the ways of regulating the leisure sphere of youth activity. According to the results of the social research “The city as students see it”, performed at Priazovskyi State Technical University SHEI in November 2017 the students need qualitative and meaningful leisure, with orientation on personal and professional development of the younger generation. So, the activities of higher educational institutions in this direction seem to be of special importance. The university spares no efforts for its students to be able to spend their free time being busy with some useful and interesting matters, including those, connected with volunteers’ movement. Conclusions. The contemporary conditions of the society’s development require implementation of new forms of educational activity at higher educational institutions. Volunteering could be one of such forms. Such activities allow generating some important traits, like tolerance, humanism, activity, initiative and creativity in students’ youth. Still, it can be realized only in case of correctly organized and controlled process. Volunteers’ activity and other entertainment practices of students’ youth ought to be organized and managed by the educational institution within the framework of fulfillment of the plan of educational work.


Author(s):  
William Heisler ◽  
Fred Westfall ◽  
Robert Kitahara

Challenges to academic integrity in management education appear to be on the rise in U.S. institutions of higher education. In an effort to reduce cheating and plagiarism in business education, universities have turned to a variety of technological approaches. However, technology cannot be considered a panacea for ensuring academic integrity and is probably best viewed as a “stop gap” measure that can eventually be compromised. The authors begin this chapter by describing how declining ethics has been evidenced recently in business. Then, they present a review of the literature describing the extent and causes of academic dishonesty and discuss what some educational institutions are doing to address academic integrity, including calls for an increase in ethics education. Finally, they review technological approaches used by many colleges and universities to prevent cheating and plagiarism, examining the features, strengths, weaknesses, and current status of each technology.


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