Schedule

WORKSHOPS

Wednesday, 13th September, 2017

 

Location:

Lecture room ALPHA

(building G2, 1st floor)

University of Maribor – Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Koroška cesta 46, Maribor, Slovenia

9.00 – 10.30

Irene Glendinning, Coventry University, United Kingdom: Academic Integrity: Ensuring good academic practice – Workshop for academic staff

This workshop aims:

  • To promote good practice for module tutors and project supervisors.
  • To clarify policy and procedures for deterring and detecting cases of student academic misconduct.
  • To encourage dialogue about measures for reducing cases of plagiarism, academic dishonesty, collusion, ghost writing
  • To foster a culture of good practice regarding student support and plagiarism/misconduct prevention measures.
  • To collect ideas and good practice to share with others

Presentation


10.30 – 11.00

Coffee break


11.00 – 13.00

Laura Ribeiro, University of Porto, Portugal, Shiva Sivasubramaniam, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom, Marco Cosentino, University of Insubria, Italy:: Methodology, ethics and integrity in biomedical research

AimsTo propose and discuss possible interventions aimed at increasing the awareness ofmedical students and physicians towards the critical role of scientific research for the advancement of biomedicine, to empower physicians regarding their potential to engage in preclinical/clinical research and to tackle to “reproducibility crisis” which is undermining the credibility of science in general and in particular of biomedical research (see e.g. http://www.nature.com/news/reproducibility-1.17552).

Educational objectives

The workshop will address three critical levels of training:

  1. undergraduate training at medical schools;
  2. postgraduate residency training with regard to the MD-PhD transition;
  3. a training programme for physicians already integrated into the health system and aiming at added value to their professional and career opportunities through specific training into biomedical research.

Topics covered

RESEARCH INTEGRITY

  1. Research integrity: what is it and why should we care about it?
  2. Research misconduct: what is it and how to deal with it?
  3. Promoting research integrity issues;
  4. How to deal with concepts of scientific integrity;
  5. The conflict of interest in biomedical research.

Other possible specific areas/topics:

(i) Preclinical research and laboratory animal care use;

(ii) Human subject research and institutional review boards;

(iii) Publish or perish;

(iv) Understanding biomedical research papers.

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13.00 – 13.45

Lunch

(Location: University of Maribor – Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Koroška cesta 46, Maribor, Slovenia)


13.45 – 14-30

Shiva Sivasubramaniam, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom: Detecting plagiarism – How hard is it?

This 45 minute slot would discuss the borderline cases of plagiarism cases based on Tunitin® scores.

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Location:

GLAZERJEVA DVORANA

(1st floor)

The University of Maribor library, Gospejna ulica 10, Maribor, Slovenia

9.00 – 10.30

Dita Dlabolová, Mendel University in Brno: Where is the borderline of plagiarism?

The workshop is a mixture of information, activities to make participants think about the issues and discussions. It also presents results from European-wide survey about plagiarism.We will talk about understanding of plagiarism and academic dishonesty, discuss several scenarios and assess their severity. We will also consider reasons leading students to plagiarism, and discuss measures for prevention, policies and penalties and share personal experience of workshop participants.

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10.30 – 11.00

Coffee break


11.00 – 12.30

Oliver Trevisiol, Ansgar Schäfer, University of Konstanz, Germany: Plagiarism prevention – what can librarians do?

We invite library staff (and staff from other research support services) to reflect, discuss and get to know their (potential) role regarding plagiarism prevention. Libraries may contribute already by offering courses and other educational measures such as “how to find sources”, “literature and knowledge management” as well as “information literacy”. In addition to that other support activities are requested by scholars and student: advice, answers, materials, etc.During this workshop we will present experiences from the project for plagiarism prevention “Refairence”. This includes reasons, why libraries are involved in the topic, recommended measures and possible reactions and offers to the needs requested by different stakeholders within the university.

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12.30 – 13.30

Lunch

(Location: University of Maribor – Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Koroška cesta 46, Maribor, Slovenia)


13.30 – 14.15

Salim Razi, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey: Benefiting from anonymous multi mediated writing model to avoid plagiarism

Plagiarism is simply defined as using other people’s ideas or words without citing appropriately and as novice authors, students either undergraduate or graduate, are under the risk of being accused of plagiarism more than the others. A text-matching software aims to help writing instructors detect and prevent plagiarism; however, its implementation does not necessarily result in better academic writing skills. Recently, text-matching software market has addressed this issue and integrated several features with the hope of assisting student-authors to develop their writing skills in addition to awareness regarding plagiarism concerns. Within this perspective, this session will present how to implement ‘anonymous multi-mediated writing model’ on a text-matching software that aims at amelioration in writing skills in addition to avoidance of plagiarism.

Presentation

 

Location:

Lecture room BREDE FILO

(1st floor)

The University of Maribor library, Gospejna ulica 10, Maribor, Slovenia

9.00 – 10.30

Stella Kleanthous and Angeliki Kokkinaki, UNIC Nicosia, Cyprus: Designing and developing an online course for Academic Integrity

Based on an open Learning Management System (LMS), an open educational framework towards promotion of academic integrity has been designed and developed for internal purposes at the University of Nicosia. The educational framework has been designed based on principles of constructivism and promotes active involvement of the learners in order to develop skills and competences that prevent plagiarism. Gamification has also been employed in the learning process. The open educational resources include presentations, self-assessment tools, videos, serious games etc. The structure of the open educational framework is based on three main axes. First, there is emphasis on providing information on plagiarism in many directions and in many different formats to cover different learning schemes. The second axis includes activities that support assessment or self-assessment processes. Finally, the third axis focuses on the evaluation of the learning process of the proposed open educational environment. Based on this experience we propose a workshop that will encompass concepts and best practices of the design and development of an online course on Academic Integrity.

Presentation


10.30 – 11.00

Coffee break


11.00 – 12.30

Irene Glendining, Coventry University, United Kingdom: Academic Writing – Guidance for students on Research and Academic Integrity

The workshop for students will cover:

  • good study habits and writing skills,
  • understanding referencing and citation conventions and using these appropriately,
  • the importance of academic integrity,
  • finding good quality information sources and assessing reliability of information,
  • understanding the expectations and requirements of assessors.

Presentation


12.30 – 13.30

Lunch

(Location: University of Maribor – Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Koroška cesta 46, Maribor, Slovenia)

 

CONFERENCE

Thursday, 14th September, 2017

 

Location:

VELIKA DVORANA

Ministry of education, science and sports, Masarykova 16, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

9.00 – 9.15

Welcome speech


9.15 – 9.45

Borut Holcman, University of Maribor, Slovenia: Your ethical IQ is: Honourable academic?

In the professional literature in the field of education and research, we cannot pass the IQ evaluation of the individual’s ability to perceive reality. Among a multitude of forms used by schools, psychological diagnostic centres and people’s assessments, is intelligence. The core is at least, as follows from the literature, convergent and divergent intelligence and related flexibility or rigidity of measured intelligence.Is it possible to determine the “inclination” of intelligence by quantitative methods? The experts are inclined to the view that you will never find any professor and psychologist who could measure something that is a matter of subjective judgment – it is the quality, which is the starting point for understanding the world in comparison to the quantitative assumption.

For example, musical intelligence, linguistic intelligence, logical mathematical intelligence, spatial intelligence, physical intelligence, psychological intelligence – emotional intelligence and ethical intelligence.

Modern intelligence, consistently developed in relation to technology, is limited to the use of calculable and exclusively functional thinking, which leads to the abandonment of everything that is not directly technically useful.

Ethical Intelligence, the Intelligence of the Future (Gardner, Weinstein), is an area that goes beyond the “principle” of our conscience and the area limited by our interests. An area that takes care of the community and becomes a certain policy.

The difference between ethics and the law? Ethical principles have to do with social standards. Moreover, why ethically is not acceptable? For unintelligent ethical behaviour, there are three primary explanations: they all start with f: fear, focus on short-term benefits, and foul mood.

Only intellectuals can be ethical. Are they?

We must be aware that the academic space is creme de la creme of society.

As is the rule for French judges: noblesse oblige (nobility obliges) – everyone is required to act according the position and reputation that this implies.

Furthermore, what is ethical IQ of academics in Slovenia?


9.45 – 10.15

Milan Ojsteršek, University of Maribor, Slovenia: Academic integrity and plagiarism on Slovenian academic institutions

The Slovenian open access infrastructure consists of Slovenian universities repositories, a repository for research organisations, a repository for standalone faculties and a national portal (http://openscience.si/) that aggregates content from the repositories and other Slovenian archives (dLib.si, videolectures.NET, digital library of Ministry of Defence, Social Science data archive, ScieVie repository…). The national portal provides a common search engine, recommendation of similar publications, and similar text detection. During the setting up of national open access infrastructure rules and processes for mandatory submissions of electronic theses, dissertations, research publications and research data were defined. One of features is the use of software for plagiarism detection during processes of submitting electronic theses, dissertations and research publications. Technical characteristics of the plagiarism detection system used in the Slovenian national open access infrastructure will be presented. We will also describe established processes for awareness, prevention and detection of plagiarised documents. Finally we will present chronologically organised data about the similarity of documents from test corpus of documents, published on the internet after year 2000.
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10.15 – 10.30

Tomáš Foltýnek, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic: How to improve academic integrity of your institution with European Network of Academic Integrity

European Network of Academic integrity (http://www.academicintegrity.eu/wp/) is pan European consortium which promotes integrity in whole academia (i.e. education, research and other aspects of academic sector), specifically:

  • to collaborate towards research and promotion of academic integrity,
  • to provide a platform for academics across all sectors to investigate, exchange, develop, collaborate and access resources in the field of academic integrity,
  • to offer opportunities for researchers, educators and practitioners to take a leadership role in the field of academic integrity,
  • to present best practices in the management of academic integrity,
  • to make available a central point of reference where issues of academic integrity can be discussed, researched, progressed and shared with the wider academic community,
  • to organize conferences, workshops and other events on academic integrity
  • to network and collaborate with individuals and organisations actively pursuing related research,
  • to collaborate towards research,
  • to appreciate individual and institutional efforts regarding academic integrity by offering awards.

Presentation


10.30- 11.00

Irene Glendinning, Coventry University, United Kingdom: Strategies for enhancing academic integrity

The presentation for senior managers and academic teachers will cover:

  • The importance of integrity in education and research.
  • Developing a strategy for institutional integrity.
  • Characteristics of effective institutional policies and procedures.
  • Discussions on local requirements and variations.

Presentation


11.00 – 11.30

Cofee break


11.00- 11.30

Loreta Tauginiene, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania: Building ethics infrastructure in academia

It is aimed to raise awareness on two approaches of building ethics infrastructure in educational setting. Value-led and compliance approaches will be addressed with illustrative examples.

Presentation


11.30 – 12.00

Shiva Sivasubramaniam, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom: Bioethics versus moral ethics – You decide

This presentation would engage the teacher/medical students in discussing 6 different scenarios (examples) of difficult ethical issues to show the ethical decisions should not be linked to moral arguments. Most of these scenarios are real life examples that would enthuse them to be engaged in meaningful discussion.

Presentation


12.00 – 12.30

Veronika Králíková, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic: How to deal with contract cheating

Contract cheating (also known as ghost writing) happens when a student has his assignment done by someone else and submits it as his own work. Researches show that 6-10% of students have their school work done by someone else, for example in Czech Republic it is estimated that the annual turnover of the market with contract cheating is more then 7 millions EUR. In the presentation we will briefly present the problem of contract cheating and its extend, you will learn good practices how to prevent it and how to recognise signs that might help you to discover work which wasn’t written by your student.

Presentation


12.30 – 13.00

Salim Razi, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University,Turkey: How to benefit from text-matching software similarity reports?

Text-matching software is believed to facilitate the detection of plagiarism by revealing the similarities of a text with the other sources. The strength of any software, in terms of catching the similarities, depends heavily on the size of its database. The databases may consist of internet files, articles published in academic journals, academic books, and assignments submitted by students. In addition to showing the similarities by highlighting the matches, a text-matching software also provides a similarity ratio in terms of percentage to the users. However, the numerical expression might be misleading for some users as it is not an uncommon practice that teachers simply depend on statistics rather than checking the assignments against plagiarism concerns. There are even institutional regulations where a threshold similarity ratio is set as a limit without dealing with the possibility of plagiarism incidents in a text. It is therefore crucial to approach these similarity reports with caution. Within this perspective, this session will present how to interpret similarity reports retrieved from text-matching software by taking both highlighted similarities and similarity ratios into consideration.

Presentation