Academic Integrity and Academic Misconduct in Higher Education

BMP3003-1

TABLE OF CONTENT
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
Discussing the implications of academic misconduct:................................................................5
SECTION 2......................................................................................................................................6
Reflecting on the steps you have taken, and difficulties encountered in producing the game for
Project 2:......................................................................................................................................6
Reflecting on the skills you have learned this academic year and those emphasized in
producing your game:..................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Academic integrity is one of the most common but important term in the educational
context, learner need to understand the concept of academic integrity to manage their growth in
academic and career development session (Bretag, 2016). Academic integrity simply means
those policies and procedure followed by learner to ensure right and legal education, this may
include honesty at work, avoidance of misconduct and avoidance of any unethical practice
during academic period. This report will discuss academic integrity in higher education and
academic misconduct. Later this report will discuss skills required to design a game and major
difficulties faced by learner during crafting of game.
MAIN BODY
SECTION 1
An Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity:
Academic integrity is process in which learner try to maintain ethical and positive
behaviour during academic session, every stakeholder is reliable to maintain integrity in the
educational area including teachers to maintain honesty at work, authorities to build trust and
learner to complete their responsibility (Bretag, 2018). Breaching any of academic requirements
consider as academic misconduct and person will be liable for legal and organizational
procedure. To maintain academic integrity in the educational area, authorities or educational
organizational design and develop certain type of policy and procedure including key roles,
responsibility, agreement and value in the workplace. There are certain type of academic
integration, these are:
Honesty at work: Both learner and educator need to stay honesty during their academic session,
this simply means educator have to follow policy and guidelines provided by the authority.
Learner can ensure honesty by avoiding any kind of unethical practice. For example; learner
might avoid plagiarism to maintain honesty towards educational authorities, avoiding plagiarism
will allow learner to create image and reputation in the process. Educator can maintain honest at
work by not involving themselves in misconduct performed by learner, if educator support
plagiarism then both have to face heavy restriction and impact over reputation. Avoiding
dishonest work is way of maintaining academic integrity.
Fairness: This is one of the most important aspect of academic integrity in which learner need to
maintain fairness during their work, fairness simply means ethically completing work. For