Importance of Academic Integrity in Higher Education

Academic
Integrity

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Section 1...........................................................................................................................................3
Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity..................................................3
A discussion of the importance of academic integrity in higher education...........................4
Discuss the implications of academic misconduct.................................................................5
Section 2...........................................................................................................................................6
Reflect on the steps you have taken, and difficulties encountered in producing the game....6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Academic Integrity means commitment and honesty in academic setting. It shows the moral
behaviour as a part of academics. It is an important concept that gives credit to others for using
their ideas. It can also be said as acknowledging the contribution of other people. This report is
based on academic integrity and its importance (Klijn, Alaoui and Vorsatz, 2020). There is
discussion related to implications of academic misconduct. As the end there is reflection based
on the problems that were faced by producing the game.
MAIN BODY
Section 1
Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity
Academic Integrity means following moral values and ethics in academia. Community of
academics and the University are built on norms shared values such as honesty responsibility and
fairness. The meaning of academic integrity is to put all the values in the practice so that there is
honesty in a card make work that is done in University being fair is an important task. Everyone
should take the responsibility of learning in a way that does not harm others. If students will
work honestly and in a fair manner they will be able to learn and learn and implement all those
things in real life and will be able to become successful (Kusumawardhani, Purnama and
Rokhimah, 2020). All the norms should be followed by a student so that there is no chance of
misconduct or any problem associated in the career. It is desired that all the students should
know about the norms and should think it as their responsibility to follow all these norms and
moral values. It is not a thing that can be neglected as if a student does not understand the
concept or follows it. The individual may get in problem and has to bear the consequences.
Academic Integrity means following the concepts that are means following all the norms that are
formulated and working with honesty and fairness. As per ICAI there are five fundamentals to
academic integrity. It is said that all these fundamentals should be followed even in the event of
adversity and they are mentioned below:
Honesty: All the work done should be completed with honesty and there should be quest for
truth. It says that it is vital to be honest while learning, research and teaching.
Trust: The communities if Academic Integrity works on the mutual trust. This trust helps in free
flow of ideas and reaches full potential.