Academic Integrity
Educational Leaders in Residence (ELR) are responsible for developing and implementing high-impact, institutional teaching and learning projects that lead to clear outcomes and results.
Our ELR for Academic Integrity will collaboratively work to build awareness and contribute to the development of resources around academic integrity across the University of Calgary.
Role description
In the area of academic integrity, our Educational Leader in Residence will be responsible for developing the following activities and initiatives:
- Continue to build awareness of academic integrity across the University and further develop the academic integrity network
- Advise and contribute to the development of resources and supports needed to support staff, students and other university stakeholders in academic integrity
- Evaluate and disseminate the success and impact of academic integrity educational initiatives
- Develop local, regional and national partnerships that connect initiatives and scholarship in the area of academic integrity
- Facilitate campus conversations related to academic integrity through existing campus networks and committees (e.g. Associate Deans, Teaching and Learning, GFC teaching and learning committee, TI workshops and events)
- Connecting with other Educational Leaders in Residence, TI leadership and the VPTL to share learning, report on progress and advise on issues related to academic integrity
Former Educational Leaders in Residence
Sarah Eaton, PhD
Educational Leader in Residence from June 2019 - June 2022
Dr. Sarah Elaine Eaton, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Werklund School of Education. She began her teaching career at the University of Calgary in 1994 as a sessional instructor, joining the ranks of the full-time faculty in 2016. She has taught courses in the Faculty of Arts and the Werklund School of Education. For the past several years, most of her teaching has focused on graduate courses in Education. Eaton was the recipient of the Werklund School of Education Teaching Excellence Award for 2014-2015. Her research interests focus on academic integrity, including contract cheating and plagiarism.
Featured contributions
- Resource: Teaching and Learning with Artificial Intelligence Apps
- Webinar: Hosting and contributions of online webinar series on Academic Integrity
- A First Response to Assessment and ChatGPT in your Courses
- Strategies for Effective Feedback in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence
- Learning Module: Designing Online Assessments
- U Have Integrity: Resource for Teaching Assistants
- Academic Integrity in Large Classes
- How to Lead a Discovery Interview About Contract Cheating
- 25 Strategies to Prevent Plagiarism
- Staying Well While Working Remotely
- Academic Integrity in Online Courses: Adapting During COVID-19 Webinar
- Academic Integrity and Student Conduct: Considerations for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
- Plagiarism in Engineering Programs: An Annotated Bibliography
- 15 Strategies to Detect Contract Cheating
- Student Academic Integrity: A Handbook for Academic Staff and Teaching Assistants
- Visual plagiarism, what is it and what can we do about it?
- Academic Integrity in Online Exams
- Academic Integrity and STEM: A Panel Discussion
- Academic Integrity Challenges & Questions for Instructors
- Contract Cheating in Canada: Exploring Legislative Options
- Managing Academic Integrity: Perspectives from Engineering
- Sharing is Caring? Exploring Academic Integrity and File-Sharing Behaviours
- Degrees of Deceit: Understanding the Landscape of Counterfeit Credentials and University Admissions Fraud
- STRIVE: Emerging considerations when designing assessment for AI use