BMP3003 Further Academic Skills: Game Design on Academic Misconduct

This assignment details the design of a game aimed at educating students about plagiarism and academic misconduct, highlighting the ethical and legal implications of plagiarism and the importance of academic integrity. The game divides students into two teams using a random selection process ...Read More

Instructions for playing the game BMP3003 Further Academic Skills
• Academic integrity helps the students in developing credibility and will
help them in gaining trust of teachers. The character of a student is
defined by the level of academic integrity they possess. Academic
integrity helps the students in having a lifetime opportunity of learning
new things and will also make sure that the students are working
according to the rules and norms of the university. Universities must
promote academic integrity in their institution and must provide proper
knowledge to students about the benefits of academic integrity and
drawbacks as well as punishment of plagiarism.
• Universities who are not taking any action against plagiarism and
academic misconduct may have to face allegation which will decrease
the reputation of the university. It is also a demotivational factor for
those student who are working hard in order to do research on their
own and are collecting information from various books and journals just
to get the right and authentic information.
• It is not good for the career aspects of the students as it implies
dishonesty and can ruin the reputation and credibility of the students.
Academic integrity helps the students in providing value to the work
that they are doing and will make sure that the students are motivated
towards their work. It will make sure that proper credits and citations
are provide to the work and will also help the students in gaining
knowledge about details of research and respective topics.
Importance of academic integrity.
Game Design Skills used to produce the game
• Logical skills: As the aim of the game is to provide
knowledge to the students about plagiarism and academic
misconduct it is important for me to make sure that I am
using my logical skills which will help me in developing a
game which is fun and is also providing information to
students. My logical skills has made sure that I am
providing an interesting game to students rather than a
boring game.
• Critical thinking skills: In order to develop a game which
also includes some question requires critical thinking skills.
I made sure that I am properly analyzing all the topics on
which I want to provide more information to students and
framed questions accordingly. My critical thinking skills also
helped me in analyzing why academic integrity is so
important in the lives of individual and why it is needed to
be followed by students.
Name: black and white
Plagiarism and academic misconduct
Plagiarism and academic misconduct is an offence both ethically and
legally. It refers to using someone eles’s hard work as their own without
providing proper credits to the original author or owner of the work.
There are several punishments for plagiarism and it depends up on the
universities to choose the punishment for their guilty students. Academic
integrity helps the students in enhancing the credibility of their work and
will also make sure that the students are gaining knowledge about the
research and related topics (Sasupilli, Bokil and Punekar., 2019). It is a
lifetime opportunity for students to learn and using plagiarism will take
this opportunity from them and they may also have to face severe
consequences of that
Academic misconduct refers to the practice or action of student which is
against the rules and regulations of the institution. Every institution has
their own separate code of conducts which indicates the rules and
regulations and norms which the students have to follow in order to avoid
an punishment or penalty (Dillon., 2018). It is important for the students
as well as staff of the university to follow all the rules and regulations also
it is important for the universities to provide proper knowledge to students
as well as staff about the norms of the institution. Academic misconduct
includes bribery, cheating, fabrication or impersonation, etc. Plagiarism is
also a form of misconduct which must be avoided by students at any cost.
The students of the class will be divided into two groups. In order to
divide the students their will be a basket and in that basket their will be
two balls. One will be colored as black and the other one will be white.
Students have to pick the balls randomly which means that they are not
aware of which team they are going in or which color ball the are picking.
After dividing the class in to two groups, there will be questions round
but before that the students will have to play another game in which they
will be provided three cards each randomly and only one card will contain
the question and other two cards will just waste the chance of the team to
answer the question. Each team will flip one card at a time and if they
choose the correct card they will get a chance to listen to their question. If
they provide correct answer to the question they will win the
competition.

BMP3003 Further Academic Skills
Questions for the game.
Name: black and white
TEAM BLACK
Students do not have to
do referencing if they
are using information
from Bible or homer’s
Iliad as they are not
covered in copyright
law and are ancient
A)True
B)False.
TEAM WHITE
If an individual is using
another individuals
original texts again and
again then citation is not
required
A)True
B)False.
B)False. B)False.

BMP3003 Further Academic Skills Name: black and white
References
Books and journals
• Sasupilli, Bokil and Punekar., 2019. Game Design Frameworks and Evaluating Techniques for Educational
Games: A Review. Research into Design for a Connected World, pp.277-286.
• Dillon., 2018. Game design and emotions: analysis models. Springer.
• Westin, Engström and Brusk., 2019. Towards sustainable inclusive game design processes. In Interactivity,
Game Creation, Design, Learning, and Innovation (pp. 390-396). Springer, Cham.
• Bell., 2018. Game on!: Gamification, gameful design, and the rise of the gamer educator. JHU Press.