Academic Integrity and Game Design: Importance, Implications, and Skills Learned

Academic skills

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................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......................................................................4
Section 2..........................................................................................................................................5
About the game............................................................................................................................5
Instructions of game....................................................................................................................6
Difficulties encountered in producing the game..........................................................................6
Reflect on the skills you have learned this academic year and those emphasized in producing
your game....................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Academic integrity simple terms determined by practising academic work in the most
reliable and transparent manner. It is an ethical obligation of an individual especially a student in
order to use fair measures to complete the academic work. This report focuses on academic
integrity and its importance in the higher education, it also discusses the implications of
academic misconduct. The another section of the report briefly frames game design, the
difficulties encountered while designing the game, the skills learnt in the academy year and the
skills that have been acquired by developing the game design (Amigud and et.al., 2017).
MAIN BODY
Section 1
An Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is defined by the act of honesty, trust, fairness, respect and
responsibility in one’s action towards the academic work. An individual must respect the work of
others and conduct academic work in the most transparent manner. The breach of academic
integrity is also called as academic misconduct or academic dishonesty. It is a fundamental
towards learning, teaching and research in the university. Academic integrity can be defined as
avoiding plagiarism and unfair code of conduct such as cheating. Academic integrity is mainly
practiced by educational institutions, it is also taught in different educational institution as a
learning sessions and these institutions have their own terms pertaining to the academy integrity.
There are six core functions of academic integrity these includes fairness, honesty, trust, respect,
responsibility and courage. The students and teachers in the educational institutions and
universities are severely punished or can even risk degree, for teachers they can be terminated for
practicing any academy dishonesty. In academic integrity students should practice behaviours
such as they should use clear references and sources, should submit their own work, conduct all
the research work by complying with the university policies, should use relevant information,
should act in ethical and right manner and communicate when facing difficulties (Bretag ed.,
2016).