Book review: Bertram Gallant, T. and Rettinger, D.A. (2025) The opposite of cheating: teaching for integrity in the age of AI. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.

At a time when the higher education (HE) sector is anxious about generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), The opposite of cheating arrives as a calm and constructive voice. Rather than treating GenAI as an existential threat, Tricia Bertram Gallant and DavidRettinger invite us to consider how our teaching, assessment design, and institutional cultures may themselves create conditions for academic dishonesty.Bertram Gallant and Rettinger are long-standing leaders in the academic integrity field, and their collaboration draws on decades of empirical research and practice.The book's tone is pragmatic, optimistic, and relational, qualities that will resonate with educators who view integrity as integral to the learning process rather than as an adjunct to it.Across seven chapters, the book reframes academic integrity as a systemic, designable feature of HE.The opening chapter explores why students cheat, introducing foundational principles that shape the remainder of the text.Subsequent chapters address how to communicate integrity, design courses and assessments that encourage honesty, promote student success, and protect assessment security in an AI-enabled world.Each chapter concludes with targeted recommendations for individual educators and institutional leaders, reinforcing the idea that integrity cannot rest on individual effort alone.The structure is clear and modular, allowing readers to access the sections most relevant to their context.Instructors seeking practical guidance can draw immediately on the checklists and examples, while researchers and learning developers will appreciate the Upsher