Game Design Project: Learning with Fun to Promote Academic Integrity

This project outlines the design of a game called "Learning with Fun," aimed at educating students about academic integrity and preventing plagiarism and academic misconduct. The game is structured into three segments, each presenting questions related to plagiarism, academic misconduct, and academic integrity. Participants earn points for correct answers, with the goal of reaching a minimum score to win. The game incorporates rules and provides regular feedback to enhance learning. The ultimate objective is to promote ethical behavior and responsible decision-making in academic work by making learning fun and engaging. The report concludes that students learn more efficiently through games, reinforcing the importance of academic integrity in maintaining reputation and providing valuable learning experiences.

Game design
INTRODUCTION
Game design is considered as the art of applying design as well as aesthetics to
developing game for the purpose of entertainment, education or some specific reason
such as removing academic misconduct and plagiarism from academic work.
Design a game
Students are involved in various unfair activities such as academic misconduct and
plagiarism that impacts on their working performance and reduce their honesty and
morality in academic work. These activities are considered as the unethical practices as
well as recognised as the activities of theft, so it becomes most important to avoid
them from academic work to enhance integrity.
Learning with fun: It is the game which is developed by the students to gain proper
knowledge and understanding regarding aspects of academic integrity that enhances
their learning in fun way. This is online based game and interactive in nature which is
produced for the purpose of avoiding academic misconducts and plagiarism form
academic work.
Structure and model of Learning with fun:
Learning with fun game structure is divided in three segments and in each segment
consist two relevant questions and participants have to chosen answer from six
options. If participants provide right answer than they will get points such as 20, 10,
40, 50 till 100.
Instruction to play game:
• Initially every participant must login their accounts through their defined user ID
and password which is allocated to them to ensure data security as well as
authentication.
• In game various segments are consist related to plagiarism segment, academic
misconduct segment as well as academic integrity segment. To win the game,
participant must attain minimum 50 points.
• There are various questions related to these segments are asked to participant and
they have to give answer from six options that are provided to them.
• As the game of learning with fun is developed for the purpose of avoiding
plagiarism and academic misconduct (Isaksen, 2017). On the other hand, the
game improves students learning in terms of academic courses.
• There are various rules are developed for participants such as they are not
allowed to leave in middle. If they leave than they are not able to submit their
assignment.
• Regular feedback is providing to students that help to improve their learning.
• In each round of game when different participant’s login, questions are changes
that plays important role in avoiding plagiarism and cheating.
Importance of academic integrity
Academic integrity is referred as the characteristic and quality that reflects that
students are involve in taking decisions in ethically right manner, asking questions
as well as follow instructions in the stage when they found themselves in difficult
situation.
• Trust
• Honesty
• Fairness
• Respect
• Responsibility
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CONCLUSION
As per above report, it can be concluded that students
learn things and concepts more efficiently from games
because that learn things in fun way. The main objective
of developing game is to avoid the unethical activities of
misconduct and plagiarism. Academic integrity is
important for students to maintain reputation and
provide worthy learning to students. There are different
types of skills and competencies are used in developing
game that enhance its effectiveness and enhances
chances of success.