BMP3003 Further Academic Skills: Designing a Game on Academic Ethics

This assignment details the design of a game intended to promote academic integrity among university students. The game, designed as a business-style activity, is suitable for group or individual play and involves answering questions related to academic ethics. The game board features questions with associated rewards and punishments, encouraging players to understand and adhere to ethical standards. The assignment also emphasizes the importance of academic integrity for students, universities, and the development of new ideas, highlighting its role in fostering honesty, creating a trustworthy learning environment, and stimulating creative thinking. Skills used in producing the game include communication, interaction, time management and critical thinking.

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BMP3003 Further Academic Skills
Academic integrity is of great importance for universities as
it is a process to follow honesty in academic institutions with
a proper code of ethical standards. It is not only important
for universities but also important for students and
development of new ideas among them. The importance of
academic integrity for students, University and development
of creative as well as new ideas are given below:
Importance for students: Completing the assessment task
with honest attitude will help a student to get themselves a
chance of success in their career.
Importance for university: Academic integrity is essential for
university to create a proper learning environment in the
educational unit and create a consistency and
trustworthiness among the society regarding the courses
and assessments so that community can get confidence on
the university that the people who take their graduate
degrees from the universities have great skills as well as
knowledge related to the graduate courses.
Importance for creating new ideas : Academic assignments
are provided to the students to create new ideas as among
them related to their chosen course.
The game designed above is a simple games which has been
designed with the concept of business game and can be
play in a group or by single member for a single chance.
The board of the game contains several questions and the
game will take approximately 25 to 30 minutes to complete.
The teacher is required divide the population of the class in
four different groups so that they can play the game in
groups.
Each group is provided a single color coin to be run on the
board according to the roll of dice.
On the number the coin will stay contains a question which
is required to be answered by the group in a unique
manner.
Every question contains 1 reward and one punishment and
teachers are requested to provide report given as a reward
book on correct answer where as punishment which has
been provided in the punishment book connected with the
board for the wrong answer.
The game will be conducted in a circular process where
every group will get a chance person by person roll the dice
and move according to the number of dice
The first group to reach at the end of the game board will
be the winner of the game.
An explanation of why academic
integrity at University is so important
Game Design Skills used to produce the game
Communication skills: There are several teams
which are involved in production of this game and
to produce the game in effective manner it requires
a proper coordination between all the teams. To
maintain the coordination the main skill which is
required to produce this game is communication
skill in order to understand the opinion of each
other in a team.
Interactive skills: It is essential to interact with
other team members to complete the provided task
for the production of game. The learning process in
the game will be required to have good interactive
skills so that task can be completed effectively.
Time management skills: As the game is required to
be completed in a limited time it requires a
candidate to think fast regarding the production of
game which requires as well as improves time
management skills.
Critical thinking skills: To design a suitable game
with several strategies a person is required to think
in a different and a critical manner so that they can
take an option from the several options available.
This will require critical thinking skills in the
candidate to produce this game.
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