Game Design: Importance of Academic Integrity and a Fun Game to Teach Teamwork

This presentation covers the importance of academic integrity in game design and the skills required for crafting games. It also includes instructions for a fun game called 'Passing the Parcel' that teaches teamwork. Academic integrity is crucial for maintaining honesty and fairness in academic work, and plagiarism and cheating can have serious consequences for learners. The presentation includes references to books and journals on the topic.

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
PASSING THE PARCEL
Instruction to play this game:
All learner have to form team of four, later they need
to sit down in circle and one team member will be
given parcel.
Host will start music, and they will stop music
accordingly, music will not be long but each member
must have parcel in their hand.
Host will stop music and the one who is holding
parcel need to stand up and have to answer two
question, team responsibility will be on shoulder of
one person which will make this game more
interesting.
After addressing two question, team will change and
second team will take place, host will announce to
continue game and will restart music. Same process
will be repeated and team will answer two question.
After all round, host will announce name of winner
team and will provide them parcel which is containing
four gifts which will be distributed to each member.
Skills used in crafting of game:
• Creativity skills
• Time management skills
• Communication skills
IMPORTANCE OF ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
Academic integrity is one of the most important thing during academic session,
integrity is symbol of professionalism allowing learner to maintain honesty and
fairness in their work. This is not only applied to student but teacher and
universities themselves have to follow integrity to maintain effectiveness of fair
work. Learner who perform plagiarism and cheating may face issue that can impact
their academic as well as career life, teacher need to professional to address and
meet learning need of learner during academic session. Academic integrity is pillar
of universities and play vital role in maintaining high level of education, there are
certain reason why academic integrity is important, these are:
Honesty: honesty is very important for learner, teacher as well as universities
because education is connected with teaching honesty. Learner need to maintain
honesty with their activity for example learner need to avoid plagiarism in their
work and need to provide original work that contain zero plagiarism, this is only
possible if they follow academic integrity and understand its importance during
academic session.
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RERFERENCE
Books and journals:
Randall, M., 2016. Pragmatic plagiarism. University
of Toronto Press.
Robinson, J.A. and Glanzer, P.L., 2017. Building a
culture of academic integrity: What students
perceive and need. College Student Journal, 51(2),
pp.209-221
Sefcik, L., Striepe, M. and Yorke, J., 2019. Mapping
the landscape of academic integrity education
programs: what approaches are
effective?. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher
Education.