Game Design: Reinforcing Academic Integrity in Higher Education

This assignment details the design of a game aimed at reinforcing academic integrity among students in higher education. The game is designed as a single-player experience where students log in with their credentials and progress through three sections, ensuring they play the game before submitting their assignments. The game focuses on developing skills such as creativity, innovation, and problem-solving, while also educating students on the importance of academic integrity, plagiarism, and academic misconduct. Unique questions are presented to each student to prevent cheating, and basic knowledge of academic integrity is required to play effectively. The game emphasizes the five pillars of academic writing, including trust, and references academic literature on assessment security and unintentional plagiarism.

Game Design
Instructions of playing game
•The game is individual or single player game and to
start the player has to login with its students Id and
password.
•The game has to be played completely till third section
as after that only the student can submit its assignment.
Because game will played every time before the
submission of the assignment.
•The student can choose only one option out of three.
•Every student will have unique set of questions each
time in order to avoid misconduct.
•In order to play the game efficiently the student must
have some basic knowledge of academic integrity,
plagiarism and academic misconduct.
An explanation of why academic
integrity is important
•Importance of academic integrity in the academic course
or the university is that it help in fostering the educational
environment as well as university reputation.
•Important benefit of academic integrity to a student is
that their efforts, time and hard work to complete an
assessment pays a good result.
•To develop the skills knowledge and also they avoid the
academic misconduct like leaking examination papers,
cheating, unethical practices etc.
•The five pillars of academic writing number one trust is a
factor to maintain a healthy relationship with the other
peer of the university.
Skills required to produce game
•Creativity skills
•Innovation skills
•Problem solving skills
References
•Dawson, P., 2020. Defending assessment security in a
digital world: preventing e-cheating and supporting
academic integrity in higher education. Routledge.
•Fatemi, G. and Saito, E., 2020. Unintentional
plagiarism and academic integrity: The challenges and
needs of postgraduate international students in
Australia. Journal of Further and Higher
Education, 44(10), pp.1305-1319.