With the transition to online and remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Oregon faculty shared that they felt additional pressure to deter academic misconduct in their courses.
Academic integrity is traditionally framed as a student conduct problem for instructors to solve, rather than a complex commitment to knowledge that we all share. We know that we are most likely to create a culture of academic integrity when we develop a shared understanding of what it is, how to support it, and what university resources we can draw on together.
In response to faculty concerns and a need for additional support, UO Libraries, the Teaching Engagement Program, UO Online, and Student Conduct and Community Standards partnered to create two openly-licensed Canvas modules, one that instructors can optionally integrate in their course, and one that all students go through as part of their new student orientation. These resources are based on current research around why students engage in academic misconduct and what strategies have effectively increased academic integrity.
In this presentation, we hope to share our academic integrity modules and the OERs that we adapted/took inspiration from, in the hopes that attendees may consider adapting them for their own higher education contexts and needs. The presenters also plan to share details about the cross-collaboration practices that made this project successful, initial feedback shared by faculty and students, and discussion about how Open Education can contribute to a culture of academic integrity.
By attending this session, attendees will be able to:
- Identify OERs they can adapt to create their own academic integrity modules
- Describe benefits of multidisciplinary cross-collaboration to a project that touches thousands of diverse students
- Discuss how Open Education can contribute to a culture of academic integrity
Participants can also see more information about this project on the
University of Oregon Academic Integrity website.
