Alliance of Academic Integrity Announced at the 5th International Plagiarism Conference

The International Association of Academic Integrity Conferences (IAAIC) will facilitate an international dialogue on academic integrity that will help foster research and idea exchange as institutions worldwide navigate the rapidly changing academic integrity landscape that has resulted from the greater emphasis on the Internet and social media in education. 

The International Association of Academic Integrity Conferences (IAAIC) will facilitate an international dialogue on academic integrity that will help foster research and idea exchange as institutions worldwide navigate the rapidly changing academic integrity landscape that has resulted from the greater emphasis on the Internet and social media in education. 

Member conferences of the IAAIC include:

"On issues ranging from cheating and plagiarism to pedagogy and best practices, the IAAIC will support ongoing research from both practitioners and institutions in the global education community," said Gill Rowell, conference chair of the 5th International Plagiarism Conference.

The organising board of the IAAIC includes members from each of the conferences:

"With the overlap-not just in our areas of focus-but also in the shared priority of trying to contend with these pressing issues, the alliance of our conferences is a significant development in the area of academic integrity," said Tracey Bretag, co-chair, Asia Pacific Forum on Educational Integrity.

For more information about the IAAIC, visit http://www.iaaic.org.

About the International Plagiarism Conference

With its first international conference in 2004, PlagiarismAdvice.org has been at the center of bringing together teachers and academics worldwide to discuss research on plagiarism, academic integrity, and to share approaches for creating opportunities to conduct authentic assessment of student learning.

For more information about the Plagiarism Conference and PlagiarismAdvice.org, please visit: http://www.plagiarismadvice.org/.