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Turnitin collabs with OLFU on Hybrid Learning Event
Turnitin collabs with OLFU on Hybrid Learning Event

By: Chelsea Mayuga

10/11/2022

By: Chelsea Mayuga

10/11/2022

Billed as “Starting Early with Academic Integrity”, the week sprung to an energetic start with the said blended seminar on Monday, 10 October 2022, at the RISE Tower of Our Lady of Fatima University (OLFU), Valenzuela Campus.

Dr. Ramonita Salazar, Campus Administrator of OLFU Quezon City, opened the day by welcoming Turnitin, OLFU leaders, and delegates, and delivering a brief statement of the topic at hand.

OLFU partnered with Turnitin, a world leader in anti-plagiarism software, in tackling the fundamental matter of academic integrity— what it is, its importance, and how to nurture it.

James Thorley, Turnitin Regional Vice President for the Asia Pacific region, in discussing “From Risk Mitigation to Academic Integrity” opened with a thought-provoker that integrity or the lack thereof is not inborn. Rather, integrity is something that must be nurtured in human beings from an early age so that they may come to recognize its import beginning within the home and continue to practice and uphold it in school and in life. Done this way, the risk of integrity falling by the wayside is mitigated, and further addressed when the value of integrity is integrated into education and how it thrives in originality, fact-checking, original writing, and more.

Talking about keeping the delicate balance of academic integrity in higher education, Thorley pointed out that a school’s policy and technology are at the base, supporting the implementation of curricula which, in turn, leads to a well-synchronized interplay between awareness & education on academic integrity and the school’s set standards, implementation, and protection of academic integrity.

Thorley then closed with the call that cultivating integrity is a building block of a strong culture and, hence, a people of integrity.

For the next part, OLFU Quezon City Campus’ Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Crisanto Daing, discussed the what’s, the why’s, and how’s through his segment on “Developing and Nurturing a Culture of Academic Integrity: A Post-Pandemic Reset”.

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Declaring that academic integrity can only be present by committing to six fundamental values, Dr. Daing went on to enumerate honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility, and courage— fleshing out the components of each one.

Dr. Daing cited cheating, plagiarism, fabrication, and facilitation as a few examples of academic dishonesty that corrupt academic integrity.

He continued by enumerating what educational institutions should undertake in propagating academic integrity such as aligning this to the schools vision and mission, training teachers and students on the schools integrity standards, evaluating stakeholders’ understanding of “integrity” on a regular cadence, “including demonstrated competencies and learning outcomes” in reformulated pedagogy, and more.

Underscoring the critical role of teachers, Dr. Daing said it is their job to bring academic integrity into the classrooms and plant the roots, so to speak. However, he closed by saying, that it takes a tribe of students, faculty, administration, and society to develop integrity as a concerted effort and, thus, it is a gradual, never-ending process.

The morning session had live on-site delegates coming from all OLFU campuses converge at the Lecture Hall of the RISE Tower, along with virtual participants on Zoom.

Before closing the program, OLFU Executive Vice President Don August Santos formally thanked the speakers, after which Jack Brazel and Bryan Pagsibigan, Turnitin’s Head of Business Partnerships for Southeast Asia and Turnitin’s Territory Sales Manager, respectively, presented plaques of appreciation to OLFU leaders: President Dr. Caroline Marian Enriquez and Research Development and Innovation Center Director Dr. Michael Joseph Dino. Mr. Santos received the citations on their behalf as they were both away for an overseas business engagement.

“I look for three things when we hire people. I look for intelligence, we look for initiative or energy, and we look for integrity. And if they don’t have the latter, the first two will kill you.” – Warren Buffett

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