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
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:
- undergraduate training at medical schools;
- postgraduate residency training with regard to the MD-PhD transition;
- 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
- Research integrity: what is it and why should we care about it?
- Research misconduct: what is it and how to deal with it?
- Promoting research integrity issues;
- How to deal with concepts of scientific integrity;
- 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?
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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
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
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.
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
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.
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.