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BC TEAL is proud to present our 2025 Annual Conference: Disruptive Educational Practices: Strategies for Transformation.

Educators shine in times of change to face unexpected challenges. This is when creativity flourishes by combining proven practices with fresh and innovative ideas. These times call for transformation which can be rooted in tradition or experience, or it can arise through unexplored approaches. The synthesis of old and new ideas drives meaningful progress. Join other insightful and creative educators as we flourish within the power of our community.
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Partnership on University Plagiarism Prevention: Strategies Against Plagiarism and AIgiarism
Saturday May 3, 2025 8:30am - 9:15am PDT
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Plagiarism is “the act of presenting the words, ideas, or images of another as your own” (American Psychological Association, 2020, p. 256). As suggested by Eaton and Christensen Hughes (2022), plagiarism is a growing and complex concern across Canada. Assisted by artificial intelligence (AI), this widespread offence has become more serious, resulting in AIgiarism or AI-generated plagiarism (Tang 2024). One study found that while 27% undergraduate education students have positive attitudes toward plagiarism, 57% have such attitudes toward Aigiarism (Khalaf, 2024). To tackle the situation, universities have developed guidelines, which, however, fail to offer practical strategies to prevent plagiarism and AIgiarism. Hence, teachers feel baffled and yearn for effective strategies. Unfortunately, research in this direction has been limited (Eaton et al, 2023; Hu & Yu, 2023). Indeed, Gustilo et al. (2024) call for “more research on the strategies that can mitigate the threats of AI invasion in the human world” (p. 36). Hence, our research question is: What strategies do teachers adopt to prevent student plagiarism and aigiarism?
The study reports on Partnership on University Plagiarism Prevention, a SSHRC project, which recently conducted one-hour semi-structured individual qualitative English interviews with 69 university instructors in North America and Europe on how the latter teach informational, writing, and referencing skills to undergraduate students. The study uses NVivo 15 to help discover themes in search for teacher strategies to prevent plagiarism and AIgiarism. Preliminary analysis indicates that teachers use a variety of traditional and innovative strategies such as collecting diagnostic student-writing samples, having students sign declarations, assigning reflective journals, designing multi-layered assignments involving peer- and teacher-feedback, recommending student self-detection software, and detecting AI hallucinations by validating citations and references.
Session participants raise questions, exchange views, share experiences, and leave empowered by strategies to prevent plagiarism and AIgiarism.
Speakers
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JIM HU

Associate Professor, Thompson Rivers University
Dr. Jim Hu is an Associate Professor at TRU, teaching EAP and TESOL. His research interests include online learning, academic writing, and plagiarism prevention.
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Mia Xie

Thompson Rivers University
Mia Xie is an MEd student and research assistant at Thompson Rivers University. Her research interests include intercultural communication and plagiarism prevention.
Saturday May 3, 2025 8:30am - 9:15am PDT
TBA
  Research, English for Academic Purposes (EAP)

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