Importance of Academic Integrity in Higher Education and Reflection on Game Development

This report emphasizes the importance of academic integrity in higher education and how it helps in ensuring the future growth of a learner. It also reflects on the development of a game and the hurdles encountered while completing the project. The report discusses the skills learned during the academic year and those emphasized in producing the game.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Section 1...........................................................................................................................................1
An Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity............................................1
A discussion on the importance of academic integrity in higher education...........................2
Discuss the implications of academic misconduct.................................................................2
Section 2...........................................................................................................................................3
Reflect on steps you have taken along with the hurdles encountered in creating the game for
Project 2..................................................................................................................................3
Reflect on the skills you have learned this academic year and those emphasized in producing
your game...............................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Academic integrity is a process in which proper fairness and transparency is used while
dealing with the educational system. There are various programmes that are being undertaken
under academic structure of the institutions. In order to maintain justness in academic structure,
maintaining academic integrity is important. It helps in using any sort of irregular methods while
conducting any academic project or assignments by the learners in various scholarly domains. It
basically helps in inculcating the honest behaviour among the learners by following the ethical
principles of learning(Cronan, Mullins, and Douglas, 2018). It is important to introduce the
scholars with this concept at the very first stage of schools. This would ultimately helps in
developing the traits among the learners in terms of producing their original work. With this they
can lead their personal as well as professional life in an efficient way. This report explains the
concept of academic integrity and how essential it is in ensuring the future growth of a learner. It
also discuss the reflection of academic integrity through an example of a game by evaluating the
problems addressed while completing any tasks.
MAIN BODY
Section 1
An Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity.
Academic integrity is mainly concerned with the importance of producing originality in the work
of the learners whether it is an assignment or any project. It is necessary that the foundation of a
student should be made in such a manner that ensures honesty and transparency in their
performance. This would create a habit of producing original work when those learners use to get
employed in any business establishment. The instructors are accountable to inculcate such
practices among students. Cheating and using other necessary means should not be encouraged
in any case. Proper checking at regular intervals by the mentors is mandatory to perform. It will
help in upgrading the skills and the scope of knowledge of the learners. As original content
requires a proper research on a particular topic, this would help in widening the area of cognitive
approach in which the learners have to apply their minds(Daoud, Alrabaiah, and Zaitoun,
2019). But it is crucial on the part of the instructors to provide work according to the capability
of the students so that they would not loose their interests in performing any tasks assigned to
them. This particular process helps in improvising the weaker areas of the students and also
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enhance the knowledge to a great extent. This would be a matter of appreciation in which
mentors must motivate the students by acknowledging their work which they have produced with
quality.
A discussion on the importance of academic integrity in higher education
While making research at various levels in each sector of assigned tasks, students have the
opportunity of gaining experience. It also helps in focusing on maintaining honesty and fairness
in the working of an individual. It has few components which form the attributes of academic
more effective and provide assistance in adding the worth to the remarks that the individual will
get while they complete the assign project. In the case when the scholars got the degree and the
improvements is lead have the overall enhancement in the growth which lead the proper orations
of the business(El-Muwalla, and Badran, 2020). It provide motivation to the scholars and
impact and influence in their work so that they can perform that their optimal level while
learning. This provide the great opportunity to the individuals who has graduated. it also provide
assistance to the people who wants to enhance their skills sets and improve more so that they can
implement it in their future opportunists. However, I provide confidence and have the impact on
learning which aid them in their further academics and they will get successful while
implementing those skills.
Discuss the implications of academic misconduct
The scholarly misconduct is unethical behaviour which is a fully illegal conduct done by
the pupil during its learning time period. It would cover the acts which is to be undertaken by
learners that would include the cheating, plagiarism, falsification, of the provided information.
Mainly, the common punishment which is to be created by the establishment in case the student
fine punishment on pupil. This is as there are many rules in the misconducted acts if the
university found the wrong patterns by the pupil. It would also impact the educational
establishment(Fatemi, and Saito, 2020). These remark might increase the unfair activities as
well as the knowledge level that is degraded in it. This has different kinds of misconduct that is
being given below as follows-
Falsification – This is the pattern where the individuals regards to get several important
data in order to make the information. This is essentially the statement and the data
through the student would get the important data with means of wrong behavior.
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Cheating- It would include that the copy which is to be done by the task, projects along
with exams hence they could have more comment and can be use for some other purpose.
This is specifically the wrong practices which is being done by the actions of the
individuals.
Plagiarism- This essentially regarded as all the accompanying task in which the single
copies the task of other for guaranteeing the good marks. It is the wrong practices which
would affect the rational along with the right mental state of the individual(Foltýnek, and
Dlabolová, 2020).
All the practices would affect the proper task along with the moral values of the
management. It would leads to have lack of interest in its learning capacity from the university.
This fundamentally affects the image of the institution that would too leads to lose the value
along with building the dishonesty and misinterpretation among the future improvement of the
people. This would too bring the perverse affects on academic honour of the establishment
because it has too resulted into analysing the administration that would effects the operations
and the ambiance of the institution.
Section 2
Reflect on steps you have taken along with the hurdles encountered in creating the game for
Project 2
The chief aim of the giving the game is to get rid of plagiarism and the cheating practices in the
exams and the behaviour of the pupil. Moreover, for avoiding the wrong task from the pupil or
the scholars, I have too prearranged for a funny game. During the planning, I had found it
difficult to frame the questions for the chosen game that has to be asked by the participants at the
time of game. I too has ensured the proper preparation for learning the new technology that I
have used in the game by that I could well get the root age. Moreover, I have used different
sources by the help of digitisation and development, etc. At the time of game, I have taken
different steps that is to be discussed as follows-
Targeting the right audiences– The processing the game, the chief problem that is
faced by me is the choosing the right candidate. Furthermore, I have operated the online
and offline classes in order to educate the pupil for the game.
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Increasing capital for improvement of game - As a scholar, I not have the extra funds
in order to make the game. Hence, in many conditions it too hard to roll up the a capital
for using the game(Kaktiņš, 2019).
Dealing with framing of questions- The issues which is featured through me frames a
correct question which track for having leading thinking in a target market from which
the utilization and gross development of many software to get the best questions. These
are the software which create a better content and also provides a unique question in
relation to analyse learning for the Contract
The law of contract is concerned with the formation and interpretation (or ‘construction’) of
written or oral agreements between companies or individuals. A contract does not have to be
written down to be a binding contract. Disputes over contracts may concern whether or not a
contract ever came into existence, what its various terms and conditions actually meant, whether
one party has broken (‘breached’) the contract and, if so, what remedy (such as damages, an
injunction or specific performance) should be ordered.
Tort
A tort is a legal wrong. A claim based on a tort usually requires the claimant to establish that the
defendant owed a ‘duty of care’ and that they broke that duty. Classic types of claim in tort are
those based on negligence, nuisance, defamation, misuse of private information, etc. Sometimes
a claim may involve both contract and tort, but a claim based in tort does not require there to be
any contract between the parties, simply that one of them owed the other a duty. Such a duty may
have been developed either at common law or under a statute.
Company law
Company law is concerned with the formation and regulation of companies and
corporations, which are separate legal persons from the individuals who own them
(usually by acquiring shares in the capital value of the company), known as ‘members’,
and those who manage and direct their activities, known as ‘directors’. When a
company’s debts exceed its income and capital it becomes insolvent, and may be put into
administration or, eventually, wound up altogether. There may be claims by different
classes of creditor and the student.
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Reflect on the skills you have learned this academic year and those emphasized in producing
your game.
During producing the game, I have increased my different attainment and ability which are given
below:
Academic skills- This is important for an respective for having good understanding for
many concept and learning of academics. Through the assistance of this game, have to
improvise my academic skill as this have the assistance of offline and online sources as
per having better knowledge to a granted field of learning. I have to made proposal to the
good apprehension for me through which I succeed at time of devising the game. This
assists me to develop as single so that I can have gross profit all together.
Motivational skills- While devising of this game, I got motivate for my work and learn
as I can efficiently absolute my task and also track in having good formulation in the
marketplace. Through this, I acquire new ways for operational so that I could guarantee a
good working for the single. This assists me in future to learn through which I can
become more effective.
Good presentation skills – I work on my skills of presentation from working on this
game as I do not have a proper presentation skill in public. But from successful
implementing of this game, I presented this game in university for my method and the
peer presentation which show that this game assists to attract in good way through which
the audiences gets excited for playing this game.
Problem solving skills– it is the skill sets which are crucial for any individual for their
professional and private life. I have enhanced my potential by continuously working on
the game. It will provide aid in my future actions within the organisation and eventually,
it will mould the individual more useful in regard of enterprise and the universities. It can
be conclude that from the above discussions, I have acquired and learnt several skills sets
while framing of the game. Moreover, I have master even more things which will be
beneficial for my upcoming future and these skill sets will have the impact at the
workplace or at the educational institutions.
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CONCLUSION
From the above paper, it can be summarised that the integrity in the academic is the
crucial for the enhancement of the education for people and also provide assistance to the ability
of the acquirer by that they will add choice to the image of their students. While working on the
task and the game, different skills have been proven. The prime motivation of the delivering the
game is to eliminate cheating and the unethical practices. Integrity in regard of the academics in
most crucial part in the professional career.
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REFERENCES
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integrity: The impact of using turnitin on reducing plagiarism. In 2019 International
Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT) (pp. 178-181). IEEE.
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Fatemi, G. and Saito, E., 2020. Unintentional plagiarism and academic integrity: The challenges
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Foltýnek, T. and Dlabolová, D., 2020. Academic integrity in Eastern Europe: Beyond corruption
and plagiarism. In A research agenda for academic integrity (pp. 40-54). Edward Elgar
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Keefer, L.A., Brown, M. and Rothschild, Z.K., 2020. Framing plagiarism as a disease heightens
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Lomness, A., and, et. al., 2021. Seizing the opportunity: Collaborative creation of academic
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