Hybrid and online courses (and in-person courses that use online platforms) ask us to wrap our heads around academic integrity in a new way, and to even consider new pedagogies and strategies for teaching as we learn to engage our students in online discussions, or ask them to compose academic papers or take online tests and quizzes. Tools like originality checkers (also known as plagiarism checkers) and proctoring software have their own causes for concern, including the reliance on tools that could one day not be available. So how do we best foster academic integrity in this digital age? Join us for a session discussing best practices for use of academic integrity tools, as well as pedagogies and strategies that support academic integrity and student engagement.
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Facilitators:
Ashlie Kauffman Sarsgard
Educational Technology Specialist, Office of Academic Innovation, PSU
Ashlie has worked in the education and training field for over twenty-five years, with the majority of that time serving higher ed and adult learners. Though her main expertise is in instructional design, online program development, and higher ed educational technology, she has also worked as a web producer and Pre-K–12 educational product and curriculum developer, has taught language arts at the K–12 level, and has also taught introductory and advanced composition, creative writing, copywriting, and writing for health professions to college and adult learners. She loves learning and teaching, and has strong interests in equity, accessibility, social justice, and student-centered, inclusive learning.
Ashlie serves as a co-lead of a higher education DEI Collaborative, working with individuals from over 70 institutions to annotate a repository of inclusive teaching practices and help infuse DEI into course quality standards. Ashlie holds an MFA in poetry from NYU, an MA in fiction from Johns Hopkins, and an MFA in fiction from the University of Maryland College Park. She has spent most of her life in Baltimore and New York and moved to Portland in 2020.
Megan McFarland
Digital Inclusion & Universal Design Coordinator, Office of Academic Innovation, PSU
Megan earned a BA in English Composition from Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA, and an M.Ed with concentrations in both Secondary Special Education and English Language Arts from Portland State University. After serving as an English Learning Specialist for Vancouver Public Schools, Megan was the director and curriculum designer for a national high school leadership education program. Most recently, she worked to build the academic branch of Portland State's Career & Communities Certificate Program for students with intellectual disabilities. She is also currently pursuing an Ed.D in Special Education Leadership & Policy at Portland State.