Academic Integrity: Importance, Implications of Misconduct, and Game Production

This report discusses academic integrity, its importance in higher education, implications of misconduct, and game production. It also reflects on the skills learned in academic year. Subject: Education, Course Code: N/A, Course Name: N/A, College/University: N/A.

Academic integrity

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
An Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity............................................4
A discussion of the importance of academic integrity in higher education...........................4
Discuss the implications of academic misconduct...............................................................5
Section 2...........................................................................................................................................7
Reflect on the steps you have taken, and difficulties encountered in producing the game....7
Reflect on the skills learned in academic year.......................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCE.................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Academic integrity is the moral code or ethical policy of academic institutions. It is the
expectation that teachers, students, researchers as well as other members of academic community
act with trust, honesty, fairness, respect and responsibility. Breaching rules and regulations
related to academic integrity is termed as the academic misconduct or academic dishonesty.
Academic skills are the habits and talent that helps students in pursue academic courses. This
report covers in two parts. First part consist description of academic integrity, importance of
academic integrity in higher education as well as implications of academic misconduct. On the
other hand, in second part steps and difficulties that are encountered during the process of
producing game is explained. Along with that skills that are developed in game production are
explained in this report.
Section 1
An Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity
Academic integrity: Academic integrity is referred as the fundamental to learning,
teaching as well as research at the university. It provides freedom to students and staff of
university to develop new ideas, knowledge as well as creative work with acknowledging and
respect work of other person. aspects that includes putting various values in practice to complete
academic work with honesty at University. It is the commitment as well as demonstration of
honesty as well as moral behaviour in academic work. From the student's perceptive, academic
integrity is related to taking ethical decisions, following instructions and asking questions even in
difficult situations. It indicates that students are completely honest with their work because they
resist the activity of cheating or plagiarize others work (Amigud, and Pell, 2021). Academic
integrity provides an opportunity for an academic institution to come together as a community
due to enhancing legitimacy to the pursuits of all students.
A discussion of the importance of academic integrity in higher education
Academic integrity plays important role in higher eduction because it shows that students
are performing their work with great honesty in the university and students take full
responsibility of their work as well as follow all rules and regulations that are developed by the
university. Academic integrity provides freedom to students and staff members for developing

new ideas, creative work as well as knowledge (Wilson, 2021). It is significant for learning new
things or producing new work instead of taking others work as their own. It helps to maintain
the quality of teaching as well as learning through obeying determined rules and regulations in
efficient manner. Avoiding unfair activities like academic misconducts and plagiarism facilitates
students to learn things in efficient manner and complete their work on time. It is important for
university to maintain values and ethics and provide career opportunities to students. In higher
education, academic integrity helps in learning, teaching and research at workplace. It maintain
strong image and reputation of university than others.
Academic integrity is important for university to maintain consistent trustworthiness in
its standards in specific courses and assessments that create confidence of community in the
people who are graduate from university with specific degree (Gomes, and Goncharova, 2021). It
is the reason for that universities take the concept of academic integrity seriously. It enhances the
feeling of proud on the high standards that are achieved by them in academic year.
There are various factors that make academic integrity important for the environment of
university. University also have pressure to maintain strong international ranking that is
happened with the help of implementing integrity in campus. University ensures that no integrity
occur failure because it has massive impact on university credibility. Executing strong academic
standards, integrity as well as professional practices develops student's skills that help them to
gain future employability. Thus, implementation of academic integrity is important for university
to create strong reputation.
Discuss the implications of academic misconduct
Academic misconducts are defined as the unfair activities that are conducted by the
individuals for taking academic advantages over other students. It consist the activities of
plagiarism, cheating fabrication of data, using unauthorised material and other misconducts in
formal academic exercise. University take various action to reduce the level of academic
misconducts. Types of academic misconducts and their implications are explained below: Plagiarism: Plagiarism is the unfair activity of using other work without acknowledging
them. It is related to present others work as their own without informing them. Students
take advantages of others work through copying it and not provide them credit for their
hard work. Students do not provide the right source of author is the another form of
misconduct (Hagen, and Sander, 2021). University take serious action towards these

students through reucating them from university that make them it difficult for them to
take admission in other university. Cheating: It is the another type of misconduct that is related to the unfair activity of
cheating other work in examination or preparing assignments. Collusion is defined as the misconduct that states that students perform a work in
collaboration with others and submit it as their individual peace of work. Fabrication of data is related to misinterpreting data intentionally in order to influence
research outcomes.
Causes: There are various causes of conducting the act related to academic misconduct. Using
online sources for the purpose of copying assignment is the latest form of misconduct. It is
important for universities to develop policies for promoting ethical behaviour at university
campus. Lake of knowledge and lake of time is the major causes that lead students towards
cheating.
Some consequences are faced by the students through conducting academic misconducts.
University imposed penalties on students or rusticate from university (Knight, 2018). Some
consequences are explained below: loss of intellectual properly is the consequences that is raised when someone steal
property of others. As original work is assets of someone and using it without their
permission is the loss of author's property. Legal concern: There are external sponsor provides opportunity to students to prepare
projects on real life problems. If students are found in the activities of cheating,
plagiarism and others to complete project than sponsors can take legal actions towards
university that impacts its reputation.
 Inaccurate assessment is the another consequences because due to academic misconduct
instructors are not able to monitor student;s performance. University reduce marks,
declared the students fail in modules, and suspend them if they found involved in
misconducts.

Section 2
Reflect on the steps you have taken, and difficulties encountered in producing the game
There are several steps are taken by me to produce then game in efficient manner.
University provide us an assignment to develop game that reduce the level of plagiarism and
academic misconduct in academic work. We have designed the game named as “Gaming
against Plagiarism”. The game is simple as well as easy to play. We have developed the game
with the objective of avoiding plagiarism and academic misconducts in academic work of
students. We have included various features in game such as “Red Alert” that help to detect the
plagiarism in content. Game has feature to highlight the words with red colour that are copied
from others work (Pethrick, 2020). We also included the another tool in game that detect
grammatical errors in content. It helps students to improve writing skills that provides benefits to
them in future. I have developed various instructions for playing game in efficient manner are
defined below:
 “Gaming against Plagiarism” game is played between the students and teachers to reduce
the level of plagiarism in content that imposes penalties or termination from university.
To start the game, students are required to download the game in their computers and
mobile phones. After the process of downloading, game is opened with some specific
tools and features. There are some options are shown to students.
 In next step, team of 3 to 4 students are formed then teachers provided small activities of
content writing to participants. The content is written in approx 100 to 500 words in word
fine that must be free from the activity of plagiarism.
 In last step, we have declared winner team according to the reports. Participant team in
which content minimum plagiarism is detected is announced as the winner team and they
are appreciated by the teachers.
There are various difficulties and problems are faced by us during producing game that impacts
overall performance and effectiveness of overall game and its results. Lake of coordination in
team members is the greatest issue faced by us. I analyse that insufficient technical skills and
tool limits the efficiency of game and create problems. We have faced difficulty is prepare the
list of questions that are asked to participant during game (Gao, AlBuainain and Hasan, 2021).
We have not conducted outside testing for game that limits our understanding regarding game
efficiency and effectiveness. We have taken some decisions improperly and there is no defined

time period if decided for playing game that created various difficulties and challenge to develop
game on time with efficiency.
Reflect on the skills learned in academic year
In the process of producing Gaming against Plagiarism, I have developed various skills
and competencies that help me to complete my academic work in efficient manner and attain
determined goals and objectives in best possible manner. These skills and competencies help to
perform defined operations with effectiveness. I have learnt that who to avoid plagiarism and
misconduct in academic work. Some skills that are learnt by me in academic year are mentioned
below:
Presentation skill: Presentation skills is related to presenting ideas, through, and view
points to others in efficient and understandable manner. I have presented the instructions of game
to target audience with the help of power point presentation slides, structure, body language and
tone of voice (Schofield,2021). I have learnt presentation skill that help me to create mutual
understanding through presenting ideas in best manner.
Writing skill: Writing skill helps to present ideas in written form through making correct
sense of gramme, punctuations and spellings. I have developed questions that are going to asked
in game. I have noted down them in sequential way that improve my skill of efficient writing. It
helps be in future as well as to prepare assignment and performing well in exams.
Creativity skills: During the academic year and process of developing game I
implemented new ideas and imagination for making the game differentiated from others that
improves my creativity skill. It helps me to seek things from different perceptive and make my
work unique from others. It enables me to accomplish work in most creative manner.
Time management skills: I have to prepare and submit assignments in academic year on
time with efficiency that improve the skill of time management in my personality. In game
production process, all activities and stages are completed in specific time period (Sewell,2019).
This skill help me to complete defined task on time with efficiency.
Research skill: During the developing game, I have researched questions that enhance
participants knowledge regarding academic topics in fun way and in academic, I have gather data
from different sources that enhanced my learning and understanding. From the whole process I
have learnt research skill that help me to collect required data from reliable sources in efficient
manner (Vogt, 2020).

CONCLUSION
From the above report, it can be concluded that it is important for university to implement
academic integrity for putting values as well as ethics for the purpose of gaining desired
outcomes. It plays most significant role in higher education. Their are various types if
misconducts are played by the students such as plagiarism, cheating during the exams and unfair
activities that impacts on their performance and knowledge in negative manner. There are some
serious actions are taken by the university for reducing the academic misconducts like plagiarism
and cheating. There are various difficulties are faced during the producing game that impacts its
overall effectiveness. Students learn various skills and competencies from their academic year
that help them to attain determined goals and objectives in efficient manner.

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