Activity 1.2: Academic Integrity Values
Objective (AIM): To explore your understanding of academic values in respect to higher education
Motivation (WHY): To build up expertise in academic integrity values.
WHO: You may undertake this exercise individually or in pairs.
Preparation: You should refer to current internet resources published between 2010 to present and to sites including those provided in the resources below.
Questions to be addressed:
- Discover what others understand to be the meaning of academic integrity, values, and illustrate practical examples.
- How do academic integrity, values differ from courage in higher education?
- How can higher academic institutions promote academic integrity, values among its social members?
- What are the effects of not observing academic integrity, values in your higher learning institution?
Resources: A PC connected to the internet.
Tools: Discussion forum; Internet Search Engine (e.g. Google)
Duration: 110 minutes (1 hour 50 mins)
Activity:
WHAT: (to do)
- Search the internet (e.g. Using Google scholar) and select at least 3 academic papers addressing academic respect.
- Review, discuss and record your opinions / findings and others views on academic respect.
- Summarise the views and the methodology used (20 mins).
- Describe how the opinions from the papers relate to yours as individuals and to the institution you work.
HOW: (to respond to the assigned task)
- Please start the task by searching papers on academic honesty using web search engines. You can also visit the suggested links above.
- List the papers and internet sites you visited. Please write the findings from each of the papers.
- You could also provide a direct links to the papers to make life easy for all.
- You should include notes on particular aspects to which you would like to draw the group's attention.
- Share your results and the findings through the created group discussion forum
FEEDBACK: (from the group / facilitators)
- Take a look at the other forum contributions describing the other participants' findings
- Reply and comment on at least 1 other participant's review comments / findings.
Assessment:
Completion of this activity will count towards your course portfolio.
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