Verification of student work

Not all student work comprises prose text writing, supported with citations and bibliographies. How is academic integrity, or academic misconduct, manifested in design, mathematics, computer science, studio arts, journalism or experiments? This stream will explore suitable educational and preventive approaches for non-text disciplines, and how potential misconduct may be identified in any discipline, beyond the use of text-matching software.

Stream coordinator| Katherine Seaton

Governance, standards and benchmarking

The Higher Education Standards Framework requires institutions to have academic integrity policies, mitigate associated risks and provide guidance to students.

This stream considers ways higher education institutions can share good practice and benchmark their operations in relation to policies, procedures, and governance processes to uphold the Standards, and ensure effective approaches in managing AI to safeguard our students and drive good practice.

Stream coordinators| Amanda Janssen and Jit Au 

The student lens

This stream will explore dimensions of academic integrity that are directly related to student learning and their experiences of academic integrity breaches. Topics may include education and awareness programs, support practices during academic integrity investigations, involvement of student representative bodies in the operation of academic integrity policies, and student insights into contemporary academic integrity issues, including complaints and appeals. Each of these sessions will be intentionally framed with a student-focused perspective and include practical discussions of strategies that higher education institutions can adopt to provide greater support for students to complete assessment tasks with integrity.

Stream coordinator | Andrew Kelly

Emerging threats

Emerging technological threats to academic integrity, such as synonymisers, some collaboration platforms, and artificial intelligence systems that produce text, create patentable inventions and write code like Github’s Copilot, raise issues regarding their use in higher education. Is student use of these tools academic misconduct or are they just there to assist students? This stream wants to explore how academic integrity practitioners may need to respond to these now and in the future. Is the solution additional technology or is there a different approach already available that can address the threat?

Stream coordinator |  David Morgan 

Integrity operations and workload

The workload associated with responding to allegations of breaches of academic integrity can be huge and can inhibit reporting. While case management software can streamline the administration of this work, there is still a significant workload involved in preparing allegations, investigating them and then taking them through a formal process to an outcome. This stream will showcase how universities can develop effective and efficient pathways that meet both educative and punitive aspects of the AI pathway and some of the issues that they have to deal with.

Stream coordinator| Bernie Marshall