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Revista de Integridad Académica: An Effort to Foster Academic Integrity in Universidad Panamericana Armando Alemán Juárez, Arturo Eduardo Becerra Mariscal, María del Carmen García Higuera
Publicación original en EDULEARN18 Proceedings Año 2018 doi 10.21125/edulearn.2018.1325 Referencia bibliográfica Alemán, A., Becerra, A. y García, M. C. (2018). Revista de Integridad Académica: An effort to foster academic integrity in Universidad Panamericana. EDULEARN18 Proceedings, 5499-5502. doi: 10.21125/ edulearn.2018.1325.
Abstract Regarding higher education (HE), several authors have studied academic integrity (AI). However, in Latin America, it is a more recent research topic. The literature on specific strategies about how to promote AI in higher education institutions (HEI) in this region is scarce. Universities need urgently to highlight this issue to encourage honesty and ethical living. The purpose of this work is to present an initial approach to a theoretical framework of AI in Latin America; reducing the scope to some strategies that have promoted AI in this region. We continued the discussion of this specific knowledge through the description of a project at our university: the creation of an online publication called Revista de Integridad Académica. We explain how the magazine began and how it grew through inter-institutional collaboration with an editorial committee composed of Universidad Panamericana and four more universities. Results were related to the experience and digital impact of making this publication, which grew to become periodical. We present some data on the statistics of the magazine published on Issuu, a digital platform. The effort of creating Revista de Integridad Académica has opened the conversation and started a primary strategy to promote a culture of AI at our institution.
Keywords: Academic Integrity, Inter-institutional Collaboration, Ethical Values, Higher Education in Latin America.
1. INTRODUCTION There is more research about academic integrity (AI) due to the massification of higher education (HE) and the concerns involving faculty and students’ life [1]. There are more universities now than ever before in the world [1]. The number of articles published on the topic has increased dramatically over the last decade [2], [1], [3], [4], [5]. Scholars understand AI in diverse ways [1]. It is a topic which extends to different disciplines, since AI relates to the practice of teaching (and learning), in any subject within the university ecosystem. Thus, authors discuss AI through different perspectives in distinct journals such as education, business, and sociology [1]. Macfarlane, Zhang, Pun [1] classify the existing literature of AI relating it with the practice of academics in three dimensions: teaching, research, and service, considering their values, behaviors, and conduct. They divide these classifications on themes, saying that much of the literature of AI relates to “a perceived lack of absence of academic
