Importance of Academic Integrity in Higher Education and Game Development Process

This report discusses the importance of academic integrity in higher education and the implications of academic misconduct. It also reflects on the steps taken and difficulties encountered in producing a game for project 2 and the skills learned in the process. The report emphasizes the values of honesty, fairness, trust, responsibilities, and respect as the pillars of academic integrity.

ACADEMIC
INTEGRITY
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Table of 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 ...............................3
Discuss the implications of academic misconduct......................................................................4
Section 2..........................................................................................................................................5
Reflect on the steps you have taken, and difficulties encountered in producing the game for
Project 2......................................................................................................................................5
Reflect on the skills you have learned this academic year and those emphasized in producing
your game ...................................................................................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
References.......................................................................................................................................8
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Introduction
Academic integrity means putting the built values and norms of behaviour, including the
fairness, responsibility and honesty into the practice by being fair to others and honest to the
work that an individual do in the university and by taking the responsibility for gaining the
knowledge. It is considered as the vital part in all the institutes of students in the procedure of
gaining the knowledge that sets some principles and guidelines for the students as well as
teachers. The universities must ensure that the qualities of the teaching it means that the
graduates should have completed the learning properly and effectively. In this report, the
significance and importance of academic integrity in higher education is discussed and the
implications of the misconduct of academic integrity.
Section 1
An Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is the ethical policy of academia that supports the legislation of
values of universities of students through various behaviours such as turning away from the
contract cheating, plagiarism and cheating as well as the maintenance of honesty and severity in
academic research and publishing. It allows the teachers as well as students to make new ideas,
and conduct creative works with acknowledging the work of others. It is considered as the
expectation that all the students or teachers or researchers of the academic community act with
trust, honesty, respect, fairness and responsibility(Bens ., 2021). All the students of higher
education are expected to increase their academic integrity during the studies. It is an imperative
way to expand the skills by communicating with the teachers of the schools or universities and
working on the problem to find an effective solution.
A discussion of the importance of academic integrity in higher education
Academic integrity is the central point to learning, research and teaching at the
university. It basically involves the raising of complex network of techniques and responsibilities
across the community of whole University. The university main work is to respond to
misconduct of academic in a transparent, fair, timely and consistent way and It will ensure that
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the investigation records are kept confidential and secure according to the Privacy policy. The
significance of academic integrity in higher education is discussed below :-
Ensures constructive knowledge and learning :- Academic integrity helps to make
ensure that the students are not cheating and copying the assignments. It overall helps the
students to enhance the knowledge and skill that however enable them to be more intellectual.
The principles of academic integrity states that students are working on the assessments and
assignments by gaining the wisdom from the classes in which they are taught about the topic. It
also improves the research skills of the students due to acquiring regular content by conducting
the research(Hiebert.,Quinn,andVogt,2021).
Creation of new ideas :- The exercise of the activities like cheating and plagiarism
among the students reduces the knowledge and skill in their learning phase. This has a major
impact on the innovation and creativity done by the students. Cheating and plagiarism reduces
this these skills due to having a habit of doing the work easily by cheating. The main purpose of
doing the assessment is to enhance the skills of a student so that it could done well in the future.
This moreover helps the students to realize that what they are capable and the what the creativity
skills he/she have by creating the new ideas.
Improvement of Values :- Academic integrity majorly focuses on the elements of trust
and honesty where views of students are taken into consideration. It promotes the values that are
very vital in everyone life to make a happy and healthy environment of learning. The students
must improvise their values in which they should learn to treat every person with a positive
attitude and a good behaviour. It has become an vital topic to take into the consideration that
helps to make the students more valuable and ethical.
Success Chances rises :- Academic integrity helps the students in their career
development by regularly monitoring that the procedure of learning the new skills and
knowledge are going well. It will the helps the students in future at the time of doing a
professional work in the firm because honesty and integrity are the vital factors that an
organisation requires in its employees(Packalen and Rowbotham ., 2020). It enhances the skills
and expertise of a student because they know that they to perform all the work on their own and
that to be on the time.
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Discuss the implications of academic misconduct
Academic misconduct is kind of cheating that usually occurs in conducting the formal
academic exercise. It has severe impact on the students who unmined the academic integrity
standards, which could result in fines, penalties or even failing. The practices of academic
misconduct exercised by the students are given below :-
Plagiarism :- It is most common example of academic misconduct and it is a major
problem in the higher education. It is basically the work of another person that a student copies
down without properly acknowledging the source with or without the permission of the person
who originally does that work(Sotiriadou and et. al., 2020).
Cheating :- It is the attempt to obtain the information from another person in an
examination without having a basic knowledge about the written text. It involves the copying
down of notes of other students while examination is going on. It also includes the
communication process of asking the question to another person in order to gather the answer of
the questions.
Falsification :- It is the attempt to present the twisted data, citations, references, evidence
or experienced results to knowingly use that material in order to complete the work.
Impersonation :- It is considered as the practice of doing illegal technical cheating
where the students can use the work of someone else and complete his/her assessment or
assignment and present it like it is theirs work(Thomas and Jeffers ., 2020).
Collusion :- It is type of plagiarism which neither be attributed nor authorized the
collaboration of students of universities in the piece of assigned work.
Section 2
Reflect on the steps you have taken, and difficulties encountered in producing the game for
Project 2
The procedure of developing a games involves various steps and in each step the game
developer has to face some difficulty. The construction of the academic game promotes the value
of honesty and integrity and obviate the practices of cheating and plagiarism(MacLeod and
Eaton ., 2020). The steps taken to produce the game along with the adversities are discussed
below :-
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Researching and analysing concepts :- It is the very step in developing a game where the
developer has to conduct various researches and analysing the concepts before start the coding to
develop a game. It is the stage where the idea is modifying to make a game. The problem that is
faced in this stage is to come up with a new idea of game that does not exist. It is very hard to
generate a new idea because at the time of developing an idea an individual has came up with a
thought that there is nothing any idea that is left and can turn into game.
Production :- This stage starts when the idea of game is generated, at this step the real
work starts. Each element of the game must be designed very thoughtfully because if there will
be any mistake in the coding the whole hard work that is done by the coder will go into the
waste. The problem arises at this step is it requires a very much attention while coding the game
because if a single code is written wrong the whole hardship goes into the waste.
Testing :- It is very a much crucial stage in which the game is require to go for the test
and then it can be said as ready for the launch. There are various types of tests that goes on
before the launch of the game on the platform(Mivehchi and Rajabion ., 2020). The problem
that occurs in this step is sometimes due to the failure of the system, it makes it able to not
detect the issue at the test time and after the launch of the game, the game developer and the
whole team behind this game developing has to face a lot of adversity.
Release :- It is the second last stage of game development process in which the game is
ready to release in the public. At this step the developers sharpen the game as much as they can
before the launch. The challenges faced by the game developer and its team is to make sure that
the game operates very smoothly without any difficulty.
Post release :- It is the last step in the game development process in which the developers
or coders are working on the platform to fix the bugs so that the game will properly function its
operations. The problem in this stage is to deeply work on the coding of the game and identify
the bugs and then remove those bugs.
Reflect on the skills you have learned this academic year and those emphasized in producing
your game
The reflection criteria for the given project can be performed with the famous reflection
model that is known as Gibbs reflective model. This model involves various stages which helps
in exploring an experience. With the help of this model I had identified various skills and learned
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them to produce my game(Khamparia and Pandey ., 2018). This stages of Gibbs reflective cycle
are discussed beneath :-
Description:- The procedure of learning is highly focused on the promotions of practice
and conducting of academic integrity. This academic year was influenced by the values of
respect, honesty, responsibilities, fairness and trust. The agreement with the academic integrity
enables the students to avoid practices of cheating and plagiarism in completing the assessment
and assignments.
Feelings :- The process of learning the skills and complying the codes of academic
integrity helps in making the value of honesty and integrity. It has acknowledged me a lot by
improving the skills on the aspect of academic integrity and the ethical practices of students.
This academic year it helps in recognizing my capabilities and generating the feeling of self
achievement(Akhmetova and Seytbenbet ., 2018).
Evaluation :- I had evaluated very importance thing in this academic year is that
academic integrity is very much vital part of the curriculum in the institutes and universities. It is
very imperative for the students to adhere to these guidance and principles if they want to stay
away from the implications. It is very crucial to acquire or use information from other sources in
context to support the assignments with in text citations and related references.
Analysis :- It has been examined in this academic year is that while I strictly follow the
principles of academic integrity, I have improvised my interpretative skills along with the
researching skills. I has also enhanced my imaginative skills and improved my learning abilities
in the process of developing the game. It has also been analysed that it improves my skills
through avoiding the practices of cheating and plagiarism.
Conclusion :- In this academic year, I had improvised my analytical skills through
continuously studying the subjects and concepts that is related to y assignments(Onete ., 2021).
Action plan :- I had also improvised my researching skills in the process of the
completing the assignment and assessment. I also plan to follow the standards of academic
integrity in order to increase my skills and knowledge.
Conclusion
From the above text, it has been concluded that Academic integrity have a moral polices
that have different set of values and principles that handle honest and responsible in perception
to education. Academic integrity is very crucial for the students who are in higher educations.
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There are different pillars of Academic integrity which are followed as Honesty, Fairness, Trust,
Responsibilities and Respect. In this report, it has been concluded the importance of academic
integrity in higher education as well as consequences of Academic dishonesty. And the various
difficulties faced by the team in the development of the game and the skilled learned in process
of developing the game.
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