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Dr. Sarah Elaine Eaton

Academic Integrity in the Age of AI

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT have changed how students learn and complete assignments. These changes create new questions about academic integrity, especially in the post-secondary context.

This session tackles key questions for educators: What counts as cheating with AI? How do we teach students to use AI ethically? How must we change our assignments when AI can write essays and solve problems?

In this session, we will:

· Look at how AI changes what we mean by student authorship

· Set clear boundaries for AI use in coursework

· Share practical ways to update your teaching and assessments

For educators and administrators, this session offers concrete steps to address AI in your classrooms and programs. Join us to find practical solutions that maintain academic standards while preparing students for a workforce that uses AI.

Sarah Elaine Eaton, PhD, is a professor and research chair at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Canada and an Honorary Associate Professor, Deakin University, Australia. She has received research awards of excellence for her scholarship on academic integrity from the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education (CSSHE) (2020) and the European Network for Academic Integrity (ENAI) (2022). Dr. Eaton has written and presented extensively on academic integrity and ethics all over the world and is regularly invited as a media guest to talk about academic misconduct. Dr. Eaton is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal for Educational Integrity. Her books include Plagiarism in Higher Education: Tackling Tough Topics in Academic Integrity, Academic Integrity in Canada: An Enduring and Essential Challenge (Eaton & Christensen Hughes, eds.), Contract Cheating in Higher Education: Global Perspectives on Theory, Practice, and Policy (Eaton, Curtis, Stoesz, Clare, Rundle, & Seeland, eds.), and Ethics and Integrity in Teacher Education (Eaton & Khan, eds.) and Fake Degrees and Fraudulent Credentials in Higher Education (Eaton, Carmichael, & Pethrick, eds.). She is also the editor-in-chief of the Second Handbook of Academic Integrity (2024).

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