Educational Integrity: Creating a Culture of Integrity
The Asia-Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity: Creating a culture of
integrity was held at the University of South Australia from 6-7 December
2007.
While previous conferences have focussed on specific issues relating to educational integrity such as plagiarism and values in teaching and learning, the 2007 conference aimed to examine the broader educational context. Participants were asked to consider the questions:
- Who is responsible for educational integrity? Is it students, educators, administrators, senior managers or policy makers?
- How can a culture of integrity be created so that the current model of ‘police action’ is replaced by self-regulation and mutual respect?
Themes included:
- policy changes and reform in education
- commercialisation of education
- internationalisation of education
- ethics in research and publishing
- issues of governance and managerialism
- quality assurance and educational integrity
- implications of the Research Quality Framework
- issues in learning and teaching
A pre-conference workshop was held on 5 December 2007 to enable Academic Integrity Officers (and their equivalent positions) from Australian and international universities to network and share ideas on best practice.