Journal article
App-centric Students and Academic Integrity: A Proposal for Assembling Socio-technical Responsibility
Journal of Academic Ethics, Vol.19, pp.35-48
2021
Abstract
Academic integrity (AI) is a complex problem that challenges how we view action, intentions, research, and knowledge production as human agents working with computers. This paper proposes that a productive approach to support AI is found at the nexus of behavioural ethics and a view of hybrid app-human agency. The proposal brings together AI research in behavioural ethics and Rest’s (1979) four stages of ethical decision-making which tracks the development of moral sensitivity, moral judgement, moral motivation and finally moral action combined with insights taken from Actor-Network Theory (ANT). This framework, bluntly named the Academic Integrity Model (AIM), positions AI as an effect of an entangled hybrid of human-technology actors moving through distinct but related steps towards ultimately mobilising (un)ethical learning behaviours. This model highlights the importance of developing socio-techno responsibility in students and suggests that approaches to address academic integrity performances such as contract cheating, collusion and plagiarism should include considerations of the complex nature of app-centric students.
Details
- Title
- App-centric Students and Academic Integrity: A Proposal for Assembling Socio-technical Responsibility
- Authors
- Theresa Ashford (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and Society
- Publication details
- Journal of Academic Ethics, Vol.19, pp.35-48
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10805-020-09387-w
- ISSN
- 1572-8544
- Organisation Unit
- School of Law and Society; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99487708702621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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