Importance of Academic Integrity in Higher Education and Game Designing

This report discusses the importance of academic integrity in higher education and the implications of academic misconducting. It also reflects on the steps and difficulties encountered while designing a game to promote academic integrity. The skills learned during game designing are also discussed.

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TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Section 1...........................................................................................................................................3
Describing academic integrity ....................................................................................................3
Discussing importance of academic integrity in higher education..............................................4
Discussing implications of academic misconducting .................................................................5
Section 2 ..........................................................................................................................................5
Reflecting on the steps for designing game and difficulties being encountered while designing
the game ......................................................................................................................................5
Reflecting on the skills being learned and helps while game designing .....................................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Academic integrity is being defined as the process which mainly allows the students with
the freedom for using their ideas and thoughts for acknowledging the workings by conducting all
the means in fair, being true and transparent manner. It is important for the students as it mainly
helps in being responsible for all the workings and acting with integrity and maintaining the
respectful and succeeding environment. This report mainly providing details about describing the
academic integrity in detail. Also, analysing its importance in the higher education. Further more
describing its implications academic misconducting. Also in another sections it aims in reflecting
the steps being taken and the difficulties mainly encountered while designing game. Also
reflecting on the skills being learned and helped in producing the game.
MAIN BODY
Section 1
Describing academic integrity
The academic integrity is mainly defined freedom which allows the students to use their
ideas and knowledge with respecting other work as for limiting the misconducting with being
fair and transparent while respecting others working helps in avoiding the plagiarisms. This helps
in developing new ideas and knowledge and behaving by complying all the cod of conducts
while learning and studying in the university or in college (Cavaliere, 2020). The academic
integrity is mainly bing used by various colleges and university by defining different rules and
regulations for maintaining the ethics while working and behaving in proper manner. Further
more, With maintaining integrity in academic mainly helps in supporting all the values and rules
related to operate the educational systems and avoiding the working of attaining plagiarism and
cheating conducting. Further more, being followed by all the universities and colleges mainly
helps in operating with the code of ethical and behaving rules for maintaining the disciplines and
making aware all the individuals as to work and maintaining the fairness with being transparent.
More over, academic integrity play very important role as it mainly helps in maintaining
and working with fairness, being transparent and in honest manner by all the individuals. With
following this helps in contributing positively while learning and behaving in proper manner

with respecting others workings (Eaton, 2021). As by working with complying all the rules and
instructions of academic integrity mainly helps in solving the issues being arisen daily as with
avoiding plagiarism and working in fair and transparent manner. For students in eductaion, it
plays important role as by making them understand being transparent, fair and respectful and
believing to do right and acting in consistent manner helps in limiting the uncertain situations. As
with maintaining the academic integrity mainly helps in being liable as to work as per the good
norms and ethically being responsible with the workings, with maintaining the academic
integrity mainly aids in defining the code of conducts by explaining the instructions for enabling
better understandings to attain the best workings and getting good marks while making projects
and assignments.
Discussing importance of academic integrity in higher education
Academic integrity mainly aims in defining the students with providing freedom to use
ideas, knowledge and the acknowledging the working of others with working in fair, respectful
and transparent manner. In higher education academic integrity is very important as it mainly
helps in enhancing the learnings and limiting to copy and paste of the content and others ideas
and thoughts as to attain good markings. Further more, For this students it mainly helps in being
fair, respecting others workings, building trust for being more responsible in nature. as This is
mainly assisting in grasping all the opportunities and influences the students to be more
disciplined. Further more, it also allows the students to work in more enthusiastic and confident
manner as by respecting each and every individual and carrying all the workings without using
their ideas and not depending on others.
Further more, it mainly helps the students to carry out all the working in the positive
manner. As it mainly helps in building the reputation while working and performing the all the
working as per the instructions for accomplishing the goals in the right way. Also, as for
attaining success working with academic integrity mainly helps in making career in right way as
with being professional by being more consistent in nature as to attain the set results (Stoesz and
Eaton, 2022). As it mainly helps in taking steps to carry out all the workings by acknowledging
others workings and making use of own efforts and workings to attain the set results while
conducting task and making assignments.

Discussing implications of academic misconducting
The academic integrity misconducting mainly aims in defining about the act which is not
being accepted as when not maintaining the integrity in nature which results in attaining negative
results. As It is mainly being defined as the form of cheating which takes place by cheating or
using others information (Cronan, Mullins and Douglas, 2018). The most common academic
misconducts mainly defined as the plagiarism, in which individuals mainly uses their ideas and
thoughts and copying it for making it own. This is mainly violating the academic integrity while
mainly designing the assignment given and the different tasks being assigned to the students. In
this mainly copying and pasting while preparing the assignments and the projects results in
facing losses with resulting in attaining low margins of the project (Morris, 2018). As with these
miscounting the main implications being faced by the students mainly includes paying fines as
for disobeying the rules and regulations being given and assigned as the code of conducting. The
following implications are being occurred with misconducting the academics as:
Inaccurate assessments: As when students while studying and working on different
projects when not following the proper code of conduct and doing academic misconduct results
in inaccurately assessing the efforts being made by the student and the abilities being possessed
and acquired as to attain competitiveness and the skills to ascertain the knowledge.
Loss of study: The academic misconducting mainly results in loss of study mainly aims
in defining about the misconducts which mainly impacts the students as by loss of study which
greatly impacts the career options and the opportunities being possess in future.
Self-esteem of students: As by cheating and misconducts mainly impacts the students
self esteem (Eaton and Turner, 2020). As by cheating makes arising the guilt which impacts the
long term goals of the individuals. The cheating and copy pasting the content mainly results in
giving and negatively impacting individuals in their workings.
Section 2
Reflecting on the steps for designing game and difficulties being encountered while designing
the game
While designing the game namely spinning the wheel the different steps is being used
which helps in developing the creative and simple game for the students for analysing the
academic misconducting.

Defining and building the concept: In this first step it mainly describes about the
concept behind designing this game. As I have mainly designed this game for analysing the
maintenance of academic integrity and for communicating the importance to the students with
answering the questions.
Adhering and gathering information in detail from using internet: In the second step
which I have adopted as by gathering detailed information about designing the criteria and
simple game for the students. In this I have researched about adopting spinning the wheel game
and its detail information for designing it with using cards and asking questions for making ii
interactive and assessing the ability for maintaining academic integrity.
Defining rules and instructions to play: In this fourth step I have mainly defining the
instructions and rules to pay the game. As spinning the wheel game which can be plays in the 4
teams with 6 members each. In this one student will spin the wheel and wait until it stops on a
colour (Kumar, Pratap and Pateria, 2022). Further, while the wheel stop on one card the students
have to pick the card being placed from different colours and have to pick a particular colour and
have to answer the list of questions being placed on the card as an Mc Q based.
Defining success and rewarding criteria: in the last step I ave mainly defined and
addressed th success of the students as with asking 5 questions in each card and giving 40 sec
time limit to answer the questions. Any team who is able to score first with 50 points will win the
game (Sotiriadou and et.al., 2020). Thus, as while designing the game I have faced certain
difficulties while researching abut the simple game which is easily being understood while
communicating all the students. Also, the internet connectivity has hindered me while selecting
the games. Also, I was unable to decide te set of questions to ask the students about defining the
importance of academic integrity which helps in avoiding plagiarisms.
Reflecting on the skills being learned and helps while game designing
Skills play key role in designing the game as I have being acquired while pursuing
academic. These skills mainly includes the researching , creativity, critical thinking, problem
solving, writing and presentation skills. With acquiring these skills has helped me In developing
the game and better communicating to all the students for playing accordingly which are as
follows:
Critical thinking and problem solving skills :as For designing the spinning the wheel
game, these skill mainly helped me with using the critical thinking I was able to find the game

and design the question to be asked with using different colours cards also by using the problem
solving skills has assisted me in finding out the solutions to the problem being faced as while
spinning the wheel limiting the probability of getting the same colour helps in solving this
concern.
Presenting skills : Presentation play important role as These skills mainly helped me in
presenting the game to the students and enabling with effective communicating for maintaining
everyone understands the game by properly remembering the rules for getting the best results
and attaining first position. therefore the skills assisted me in effectively presenting the
information in front of students.
Designing skills: As while studying I have acquired these skill while making the
assignment and creative projects. With using these mainly helped me in welcoming the creative
and innovative ideas while designing the game for academic integrity as to engage the students
while playing and enjoying it.
Researching skills: Research played very important part while designing the whole
game, as while using these skills mainly assist me in designing the game as by using cards and
asking questions (Cutri and et.al., 2021). While researching helps in finding out the set of
questions being asked in each colour card with using internet. Also, it helped in developing and
providing the detail information of academic integrity and reducing the plagiarisms with working
in more fair and transparent manner.
Creative skills: With using the creative skills mainly help me in designing the simple
and creative game for the students. Creativity is and attribute Which mainly results in attracting
and engaging by providing real experience which assist in performing all the task and workings
in proper manner.
Thus, as with using these all skills mainly assist me in building effective games which
helps in defining the importance of plagiarism for maintaining the academic integrity.
CONCLUSION
From this above report it can be concluded that, academic integrity mainly play very
important role for performing all the fair conducting by respecting their work with being
transparent and maintaining honesty while working and completing the assigned tasks. Further
more, with describing the importance and the implications of the academic integrity mainly
provide details about the results being attained when not maintaining the academic integrity

while working with others. Also, as in higher education it plays important role as while writing
and completing the assignment maintaining the academic integrity helps in avoiding the
plagiarism while respecting others workings. More over, as while reflecting on the steps and the
skills being used helped in designing the game with using skills and steps to design game in
more attractive and simple manner.

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