Good afternoon!

I am Ola NadaI am here to share with you my experience with RCR and active learning at my

institute over the past year.

Presentation outline

◎The workshop ◎Post workshop plans ◎Post workshop effect

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‘The Road to Research &

Active Learning’30th -31st , March

Target group

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24 participantsAll were academic staff members at the Faculty of

Dentistry

Academic background

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Age

20'sEarly 30'sLate 30'sAbove 50 years

7 out of 9 Departments

Oral Surgery

Oral Pathology

Oral Biology

Orthodontics

Public Health

Dental Biomaterials

Prosthodontics

Workshop topics

1. Plagiarism 2. Fabrication &Falsification

3. Responsible Mentorship& Authorship

4. Active Learning

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Assessment aligned with the objectives

◎ Define plagiarism – Discussion

◎ Imagine possible excuses for plagiarism -Brain storming & reporting

◎ Classify types of plagiarism -Brainstorming

Plagiarism objectives

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◎Detect plagiarism in art work

◎Determine one’s real intention towards research

Hypothetical lottery game

◎Construct paraphrased texts‘Develop a fingerprint’

Group activity

◎ Develop an expert eye in spotting plagiarism in scientific writings

Various case studies – group analysis and discussion

◎ How to avoid plagiarism?

Inverted/flipped teaching technique

Fabrication & Falsification

◎Categorize fabrication Vs. falsification

◎Deduct possible reasons scientists resort to fabricate or falsify data

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◎Identify who is responsible and how to stop the misconduct cycle

Case studies

 1. Who is responsible if there is fraud or plagiarism in a published research paper with multiple 

authors? a. The first author. b. The last author. c. The journal editor. d. The peer reviewers. e. All of the above. f. None of the above. 

Formative assessment

HOC

Summative assessment HOC

Responsible Mentorship

◎Define mentorship

Formative assessment

Brainstorming & reporting

1. Who could be a Mentor? 

a. Thesis Advisor b. Fellow colleague c. Principle investigator  d. All of the above 

Summative assessment HOC

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Open discussion

◎Illustrate & explain the responsibilities of both mentor & trainee

Visual illustrations

◎How to manage irresponsible mentorship

◎What to avoid as a mentor/trainee?

Open discussion of an actual case of irresponsible mentorship from our faculty

Think, pair, & share

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MCQ

1. Which of the following activities gives a person the right to be included as an author on a paper? 

a. A person that was involved in the conception and design of the experiments that led to the article. 

b. A person that collected data for the experiments. c. A person that donated the laboratory space for the experiments needed. d. A person that was involved in the drafting, revision, and final approval of the article. e. All of the above. f. Two of the above.  

Summative assessment

Formative assessment

Responsible Authorship

◎Who deserves to be an author?

Think, pair, and share

MCQ

◎Understand the role of each author type

Jigsaw puzzle

◎Arrange the authors in the correct order & eliminate irresponsible authors

◎Differentiate between authorship & acknowledgment

Strip sequence

Yes/No questions – green/red cards

Role play

◎Devise strategies to avoid irresponsible authorship

1. At what point should the subject of authorship come up during a research project?a. When the paper is being drafted. b. When someone is asked to participate in a research project. c. When someone joins a laboratory. d. It is not necessary to discuss authorship, since people usually act responsibly. 

Formative assessment

Summative assessment

HOC

HOC

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Active Learning objectives

◎Reflect on the workshop activities

◎Realize the significance of active learning through hints of Bloom’s taxonomy & the pyramid of learning

1. What is meant by active learning?a. The students are actively involved in learning the material 

through participation in the lesson.b. The teacher is active while teaching the lesson material the 

students are to be learning.

c. The students are being active while learning the material outside of the classroom.

Open discussion Formative

assessment

Summative

HOC

HOC

Differentiate between passive & active learning

Experiment

◎ Get acquainted simple forms/ tools/ ideas to implement active learning

◎Design a lesson plan per department using an active learning strategy

Professor perspective

Studentperspective

Falsification,

&Plagiarism.

Fabrication,

Extent of participants’ awareness

Demonstrators(BSc)

Assistant Lecturers

(MSc)

Lecturers & 1 Professor

(PhD)

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neutral

unaware

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QUESTIONS

NO

If one uses an idea discussed by two papers, one should only cite one of them

Answers

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Stopping research misconduct sole responsibility of either the first author or the journal reviewers?

Answers

√ X

Honesty is the way to go!

Set self regulations and guidelines

(despite existing institutional tolerance of misconduct)

Tips given to participants to help avoid research misconduct

Be mindful that you’re setting an example to your students.

Since here, one unfortunately can not separate between teaching & research positions

To avoid plagiarism

Make an effort to perform a thorough literature review to ensure that you are not duplicating unintentionally.

Use theadvanced search option to search for the same topic in other languages to avoid repetition

Get exposed to citations to ensure legitimate citation and prevent plagiarism traps

To avoid plagiarism

◎ When writing, be as concise as possible

- focus on the essence and not the length of the paper.

◎ALWAYS have a draft critic – to scan your work beforehand (probably your mentor)

+ online plagiarism checkers

Plan for knowledge sustenance

Workshop repetition

Monthly meetings with active

participants

Alexandria dental students union –undergraduate

research summer school

“Basic Research

Skills” workshop

Quality assurance unit staff training

programs

Summer2016

On a pro-active note,

its worth mentioning that

Oral & Maxillofacial

Surgery Oral

Pathology

Dental departments currentlyimplementing active learning on a

personal level

Dental Biomaterials

DentalAnatomy &

Oral Biology

Credits

Special thanks to all the people who made and released these awesome resources for free:◎Presentation template by

SlidesCarnival◎Photographs by Unsplash

NAS, Thank you!

Any questions?