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Educational Integrity in Australia

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This chapter provides an overview of the educational integrity movement in Australia, beginning with early discussions about plagiarism in the late 1990s to the first educational integrity conference in 2003, the work of the Asia Pacific Forum on Educational Integrity, the establishment of the International Journal for Educational Integrity in 2005, and the recent investment by the Australian Office for Learning and Teaching in a range of commissioned projects on academic integrity. The chapter highlights international influences and identifies key themes in educational integrity research in Australia as well as pointing to future directions.

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Bretag, T. (2016). Educational Integrity in Australia. In: Bretag, T. (eds) Handbook of Academic Integrity. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-098-8_2

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