Academic Integrity and Online Learning for International Students

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Academic Integrity and Online Learning for
International Students
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Aspects of Academic Integrity

• At the Swinburne English Language Centre we try
  to
• encourage
• Collaborative teamwork individual
  accountability
• Awareness of the concept of plagiarism
• through various online tools programs.

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1. Teamwork

• What do international students think?
• We should share information
• My teacher said Work together
• Can you please tell me what I must learn?
• How to test our team?

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Encouraging Collaborative Teamwork Online

• What can we do?
• Make reasons for team work more explicit
• Clarify how teams function
• Illustrate difference between sharing copying
• Develop fair assessment processes

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Encouraging Collaborative Teamwork Online

• Use a range of technologies to help
• iPeer
• Inspiration
• Teamwork styles
• Digital story telling

WebCT
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iPeer

• iPeer is an application to develop and deliver
  rubric-based peer evaluations, to review and
  release student comments, to build progress
  report forms online, and to analyse evaluation
  results.
• Website http//linux.softpedia.com/get/Education/
  iPeer-4282.shtml

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iPeer how does it work?

• Teacher
• develops rubric and gives each criterion a
  weighting
• enrols students
• generates reports about the individuals in the
  teams

• Students
• assess themselves and others in the team
  anonymously
• reflect discuss team roles
• learn to take responsibility for individual
  team work

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i-Peer has a number of functions for both
teachers and students
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Inspiration students brainstorm together
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Teamwork Styles
Team roles
http//www.queendom.com/tests/career/team_roles_ac
cess.html
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Digital Story Telling

• Telling a story with images and sound. Helps
  with
• Research
• Problem solving
• Collaboration
• Reflection
• Language

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WebCT group functions online

• Discussion board
• Chat room
• Reflective journals
• Did everyone participate?
• Did everyone do their own work?
• Did we use our team roles?
• What did we learn about teams?

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2. Plagiarism

• (Not plagiarising) is more than a paradigm
  shift for international studentsits the
  equivalent of a religious conversion!
• John Pickering, Canterbury University,
  Christchurch NZ

What can we do?
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Plagiarism what do students think?

• I dont understand. In my country, not have!
• I cant do so must to copy
• Paraphrasing no need teacher, she know all
  things
• I must share help my friend

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Avoiding Plagiarism

• Using a range of programs in WebCT
• Hot Potatoes video comprehension exercises
• Quandary
• Capture Cam Pro exercises
• Discussion board/chat rooms

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Why use Online Technology ?
New learning paradigm anywhere, any time.
digital natives vs digital immigrants