Importance of Academic Integrity in Higher Education

Game Design

INTRODUCTION
Academic Integrity is an ethical policy in which plagiarism and ethical policy must be
avoided. It helps in improving the trust and honesty among students. The academic integrity
helps teachers and students to create a Honor pledge that makes a person who committed
academic dishonesty to get severe punishment (Curtis and et. al., 2021). There are five pillars of
Academic Integrity they are Honesty, trust, fairness, respect and responsibility. The Information
technology creates challenges within academic Integrity by identifying the plagiarism and poor
quality sources used in academic. The students must have a honesty so that they do not cheat or
copy the material of other person. Various games are designed to identify the plagiarism and
creating academic integrity among them. In this project report a game is designed to identify the
plagiarism and misconduct for universities so that they can make their students aware about the
causes and consequences of plagiarism and misconduct.
Task 1
Importance of Academic Integrity in Higher Education
Academic Integrity creates a Trust among students which helps in relying on other people
to act honestly. By admiring Academic Integrity students can change the world by creating and
building trust. With the help of this the individual can also find the job. The Students can learn
new things by having academic integrity. Thus, the higher education students come to university
for learning and adapting new things which help them to be successful in their Career. If the
students have high standard of academic Integrity, their reputation get increased and they
contribute their best in Welfare of society. The university must promote academic integrity and
educate their students to about it. If any misconduct occurs in institution a strict action must be
taken. If Schools or University manage and prevent Academic Integrity their reputation get
increased and they also awards and achievement (Geraldi, 2021). The Institutions can also
protect the interest of students who are loyal toward their work and doesn't cheat anybody. By
managing academic misconduct university can meet their Compliance obligations and reports as
Higher Education Provider. The person who has integrity they are honest and trustworthy. They
work hard to earn great outcomes with fairness and honesty as they give number of hours in
completing their assignments and studies. In Institutions, if students have maintained academic
integrity they represent true academic accomplishments.