Academic Integrity in a Digital Age

Trust refers to persons in which confidence is placed. Trust sometimes can be a belief that someone or something is reliable, good, honest, and effective. Trust is a reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety of a person or a thing. Trust also refers to confidence in something or a particular person. In the context of this course trust means the obligation or responsibility imposed on a person normally an academic member of staff in whom confidence or authority is placed. Have you ever done anything without trust? It is common that we do things that we trust.

In academic there is a lot of knowledge and skills exchange. This can always be done through mutual trust. It is when there is trust that free exchange of ideas can be encouraged, fostered and supported. Honest fosters development of trust. Trust enables researchers and academicians to collaborate, to share information, and to circulate new ideas freely, without fear that research reports or any of their pieces of work will be stolen by someone, students' careers stunted, or staff and student reputations diminished. In academic work trust is essential so that outsiders can believe in the value and meaning of scholarly research, teaching, services, and academic awards provided. It is the trust that creates a fertile ground for cooperation in which participant, academicians, in an academic activity expect to treat each other and be treated with fairness and respect.