Importance of Academic Integrity in Higher Education

This report discusses the concept of academic integrity and its importance in higher education. It also covers the implications of academic misconduct and reflects on the steps taken and difficulties encountered in producing a game for Project 2. The report concludes with a discussion on the skills learned in this academic year and those emphasized in producing the game.

BSc (Hons) Business Management with
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BMP3003
Further Academic Skills
Academic Integrity
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Contents
Introduction 3
Section 1 3-6
An Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity
3
A discussion of the importance of academic integrity in higher
education 4-5
Discuss the implications of academic misconduct 6
Section 2 7-8
Reflect on the steps you have taken, and difficulties encountered in
producing the game for Project 2 7
Reflect on the skills you have learned this academic year and those
emphasized in producing your game 8
Conclusion 8
References 9

Introduction
Academic integrity is a wide term and can be defined as the behavior and
nature of the students that they possess in their academics. This concept focuses on
the students to become more punctual and responsible towards their studies.
Academic integrity can also be defined as the rules and regulations that are made for
the students in order to eliminate the unethical practices in their academics. This
helps the students to become more success in the future. This include various
elements like doing the academic work, should treat fairly , should have to be
responsible for the studies and follow all the rules and regulations that are being
made by the educational institutes (Tatum, 2022).Educational institutes should
perform academic integrity by clarifying rules and regulations to the students, should
not copy the assignments from others, should behave in a ethical manner, should
know how to treat others etc. This report will include a complete description on the
Academic integrity. There will be the discussion on the importance of the Academic
integrity in the higher education. Implications of academic misconduct by the
students will also be taken into account. There will be the evaluation of the various
steps and difficulties that come while producing the game. At the last of this report,
there will be the discussion on the skills that have been learned during the academic
year and while producing the game.
Section 1
An Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity
Academic integrity can be defined as the moral codes and the various policies
that are made by the educational institutes in order to develop the good qualities and
behaviors in the students. Educational institutes focuses on the students that they
should follow the rules, doing the task assigned by own, should behave in a ethical
manners in the boundary of educational institutes (Ahmed, 2020). Academic integrity
consists of six main values that are : respect, responsibility, courage, trust, honesty
and fairness. These are the core values that student should practices in the institutes
this helps them to complete the task without any helps. This also facilitates the
students should treat fairly with the others also makes the students more courageous
in the challenging situations. These are the points that student should follow and
they should behave ethically in the educational institutes. If they do not follow the

rules and regulations that are being made by the educational institutes then they
have the right to take strict action against them. Students should not do the unethical
work in the college or university campus. Academic integrity helps in the overall
development and growth of the students in their academics. This facilitate the
students who have followed all the instructions to get more and more success in the
future.
This is a wide concept and its applicability is not just reliable for the students
only but also for teachers as well. Teachers uses this concept through which they
can fulfill the personal as well as the professional goals (Moriarty and Wilson, 2022).
They follow the core values in their life that are honesty, trust, fairness and the
responsibility. They practices these values by giving equal opportunities to all the
students. They also ensures that they should behave responsibly towards their
students and the society as well. Fairness is the main core values that is practiced
by the teachers as they treat all the students in the university equally.
A discussion of the importance of academic integrity in higher
education
Academic integrity plays an important role in the life of the student . This helps
the students in getting the success in the future. By practicing the values of the
academic integrity students can develop and gain various qualities like honesty, trust
worthiness, responsibility etc. Through this a student can become a punctual and
responsible person towards the goal of their life. Academic integrity prohibits the
students to do the unethical work in the educational institutes. This also gives
knowledge to the students that they should do the assignments that are being given
by their own . Academic integrity plays an most important role in the lives of the
students that are as follows:
 it is important for the carrier: Academic integrity plays an important role in
the life of the students. This helps them to get more opportunities in the future
(Sopova, 2020). As student will do the task by their own which builds the
quality of hard working and more responsible towards the work. This helps the
students to get more benefit in their professional carrier.

 it is importance for new ideas: This also facilitate the students to innovate
new ideas and related to their projects. As by practicing the academic integrity
they will be able to do the task by their own. This will help to develop new
ideas and knowledge regarding their work and projects in the educational
institutes.
 It increases the quality of teaching and learning: Academic integrity is not
just important for the students only but also equally beneficial for the teachers
as well. If the educational institutes follow all the values and elements of the
academic integrity then their students will be able to become more
responsible and honest towards their work (White, 2020). This helps in
enhancing the quality of learning in the students in them as if they do cheating
while doing the assignments then universities have the power to take strict
action against them.
 Social responsibility: This concept also helps in building the social
personality of an individual. As this includes the six core values through which
a personal can become more responsible towards the society.
 It is important for the educational organization: Academic integrity plays
an important role in building the image of the educational institutes. If the
students do the ethical work in the educational organizations then this will
helps in increase the prestige of the educational institutes.
Discuss the implications of academic misconduct
Students who does the unethical work in the educational campus faces
various kinds of challenges and difficulties in the future (Brown, 2018). They have to
faces the difficulties in getting the placements and jobs in the future as they have not
practiced the academic integrity in their academics. Some of the most common
implications of academic integrity are discussed below:
 Loss of intellectual property : This is caused as the students in the
colleges and the universities does not do the assessments and work by their
own and takes help from others. As this means the stealing of an intellectual
property because the original work has been done by someone else.

 Social consequence: This can be caused when the students in the colleges
and the universities does not perform the values like honesty, hard working
and the fairness (MacLeod, 2021). This puts much affect on the lives of
the students as they does not perform well in the society.
 Legal consequence: The universities and the colleges have the power to
take strict actions against the students if they do any unethical work. This can
affects the carrier of the students and also can get suspended from the
colleges.
Discuss the implications of academic misconduct
 Plagiarism: This is one of the major misconduct that can affects the growth
and performance of the students in the future. This means that the doing the
not by own. This includes that copying the content of the assignment from
other sources and pasting into own work without mentioning any reference of
others. This can be done with the help of the google as most of the students
use google to copy the work. This can proved to be major problems for the
students who practiced this unethical work (Eaton, 2020).The universities and
the colleges can get to know if the student has copied the content and their
system can detect the plagiarism if it has been done.
 Cheating: This is also one of the major misconduct that students practiced
while studying in the universities and the colleges. Cheating means to use the
unethical practices for passing out of the exams in the colleges with the good
grades. Cheating is not at all acceptable by the colleges and the universities
and they can easily detect the with the new software and resources. On the
other hand the student can face various consequence due to their fraudulent
activities.
 Professional misconduct: In this new era most of the students involves
themselves in the various dishonorable activities in the colleges. The campus
has recruited various new resources to check the inappropriate activities of
the students. The universities guides the students to become more
responsible towards their studies. Students should behave in a ethical manner
with the others and also should respect the decisions and ideas of the
others.

Section 2
Reflect on the steps you have taken, and difficulties encountered in
producing the game for Project 2
while developing this game I encountered many difficulties which created
huge burdened the game project. While developing the game I faced issues such as
lack of designing with team, the game was becoming less interactive and less
amusing for the students. I encountered this issue by dividing the team and giving
task to find new and unique ideas to present the game to the students (Eaton, and
Turner, 2020). Another problem was how the game would be more interesting to the
players as student are less interested toward academic games and students avoid
mostly to lean more academic activities (White, 2020). This problem was solved by
providing rewards to students who win in game which will result in attracting more
players.
Reflect on the skills you have learned this academic year and those
emphasized in producing your game
This game will improve the knowledge learned in this academic year. the
academic integrity game helped me to develop lot of skills in developing the game. I
was able to learn more about misconduct and plagiarism with other practices that is
been used in academic integrity. The process of making this game the skill is get to
use and involve in developing with being in a designer and team are followed:
Presentation: In this game better presentation skill is required for fundamental
interaction and make the game more communicative towards player or students
(Solmon, 2018). Thorough presentation designing is required for the game is more
into providing a lesson and I have to look through it must not be boring (Gamage,
Silva, and Gunawardhana, 2020). I was able to develop more presenting qualities
and communicate with people to get involve in the game.
Design and creativity: This skill is also more essential for this game as complete and
unique design is required so it do not look like any some other game. I needed
creative skills to provide ability for gaining recognition from this game. From

academic session I was able to develop some creative and design skills so that I
could implement in this game.
Research: research skill was required so that I could be able to provide information
and how to represent so that the game fulfil all the demand which includes creating
awareness as well as motivating students to practice academic integrity with
avoiding malpractices.
Conclusion
From the above report, it is concluded that academic integrity is very
important for future as well as current process of an student and it will result an
individual in long term to develop motivation and morale for personal development
with increasing awareness in the field of academic integrity. This report includes the
description of how to avoid practice of misconduct and plagiarism in an institution, as
it is of none of use with resulting it will increase suspicion in eyes of authorities, also
result in proof skill acquiring knowledge etc. further more in this report a game is
designed for make students or player understand the value and morale of academic
integrity. By using this game and proper organising individual will gain awareness
about the malpractices which can lead to uncomfortable results and how to avoid the
practice.

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