Academic Honesty of Students as a Media Educational Problem of Higher Education

Compliance with the principles of academic honesty is a key factor in preserving the traditional values of higher education and maintaining the quality of the educational process.Large-scale introduction of digital technologies into the everyday practices of young people, easy access to neural networks create additional risks of violating the principles of academic honesty.The article presents the results of a survey of students (n=633) in order to determine chang es in the academic honesty of young students.The results of the study showed that students have vague moral standards regarding the correct use of information and are frivolous about academic fraud.Almost half of the respondents answered that they resorted to cheating on the exam.A third of the respondents do not consider it necessary to memorize a large amount of information for the exam, the justification being of her the widespread availability.The study also revealed violations of the principles of academic honesty in the process of preparing final qualifying works.Students demonstrate a tolerant attitude towards incorrect borrowing of information, plagiarism, and the use of artificial intelligence in writing author's texts.The results of the study confirmed the hypothesis that the insufficient level of media competence of students distorts the perception of the principles of academic honesty, understanding the boundaries of acceptable behavior when working with media resources.The article concludes that it is necessary to develop media education in modern conditions.Media education of young people will help to form both the skills of correct use of media resources, generating author's texts based on the analysis and understanding of various sources, and ethical principles of working with information, intolerance towards academic fraud.