Academic Integrity and its Implications in Higher Education

Business Management with Foundation
BMP3003
Further Academic Skills
Academic Integrity
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Contents
Introduction..............................................................................................................................3
Section 1...................................................................................................................................3
An Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity...........................................3
A discussion of the importance of academic integrity in higher education...........................4
Discuss the implications of academic misconduct................................................................5
Section 2...................................................................................................................................6
Reflection on the steps taken and difficulties encountered in producing the game for
project 2................................................................................................................................6
Reflection on the skills learned............................................................................................ 7
Conclusion............................................................................................................................... 7
References................................................................................................................................ 8

Introduction
Academic integrity refers to the expectation that instructors, students, and researchers in
the academic community operate with honesty, respect, and fairness, among other qualities.
The students in higher education are expected to uphold academic integrity in their studies.
The legislation of educational values is influenced in academic integrity through behaviors
such as avoidance of cheating, plagiarism. The universities are required to maintain academic
standards and honesty. To promote academic integrity, there must be avoidance of dishonest
academic behavior such as plagiarism, fabrication, and falsification (Bowden, J.A. and
Green, P.J., 2019). For the university goal, scientific integrity is the basis that enables
exchange and new knowledge is developed. In terms of scientific integrity, it also requires
that the individual scientists work together and trust one another. The report is divided into
two sections. The topics dealt with in the first section are the description of the academic
integrity and its meaning and implications of academic misconduct in the university
environment. The second section reflects the steps and difficulties encountered in producing
the game. It also takes into account the skills learned during the game's creation process.
Section 1
An Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is the ethical guideline or moral code of science. Don McCabe
developed the concept of academic integrity, which is considered the grandfather of academic
integrity. The practice of academic integrity is divided into three components, namely
teaching, research and service. The term integrity defines the observance of moral and ethical
principles as well as the quality of a person's character. The university and the broader
academic community build on the shared values and norms of conduct that include honesty,
fairness and responsibility. Academic integrity defines the putting into practice of these
values through honesty in the work of academics at the university and fairness to others.
Responsibility for accepted learning and conventions of science are followed with academic
integrity (Chauhan, P.K. and et. al., 2018). The academic integrity is demonstrated by the
using appropriate information in accordance to copyrights and privacy laws, other people's
work is not presented as our own work, in line with the university regulation the research is
conducted ethically. The aim of academic integrity to develop knowledge in academic
community and ensures to maximize fairness and accuracy. The integrity is considered as the
academic misconduct. If individual fails to comply with integrity, it attracts towards penalty.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Academic integrity......................................................................................................................3
Importance of academic integrity in higher education................................................................4
Implications of academic misconduct.........................................................................................5
Explain the steps which are taken and the difficulties which are faced for the game design ....6
Skills learned in the academic year and those which have been learned during the game design
.....................................................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
Books and Journals.....................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills is the skills which is required for making the learning more effective
which are important for the success and growth in the career. These skills are an arrangement
which helps to tackle the procedure of taking any new information so that the individual could be
able to conduct its assessments(Lantsoght, 2018, p.121). It is very important for the students as
well as for the tutors to learn the academic integrity which will help them in providing the
studies with honesty and trust. Academic misconduct means any unfairness which is done by the
student in their academics. This means to do cheating, plagiarism and many other which
basically aims to gain any unfair advantage in the studies. This report will cover academic
integrity, its importance, implications of academic misconduct, difficulties encountered in the
game design and the skills which have been learned in academic year and while producing the
game.
MAIN BODY
Academic integrity
Academic integrity is the process in which the teachers and the students have to act in a
fair term which means that they have to show trust and honesty in their studies. It is the main aim
of University which means to exchange the ideas and the knowledge by the tutors and the
students but in full trust. It is very important in the University to make the rules which are for
avoiding any type of misconduct which might happen in the University(Linder and et. al., 2018,
p.325). Academic integrity in the end will be useful for the students only as this will help in their
career goals and success. This is because if the students will learn and get more information for
their study then they will develop knowledge which will be important for them only. Academic
misconduct is the process in which the student will do any such thing which will not be good for
them including the cheating, unauthorized collaboration and many other(Joyce and et. al., 2018,
p.429).