The Concepts of Academic Dishonesty of Undergraduate Students in China in the Situation of Online Education

Abstract

As an ethical requirement, honesty is the fundamental of all ethics and one of the critical contents of the core socialist values in China. An important manifestation of honesty in undergraduate students is academic honesty. As a vital link of the honest education system for college and university students, academic honesty is related to cultivating undergraduate students’ honesty and ethical quality and is an important guarantee to promote the healthy development of higher education and academic innovation. Academic honesty is also suffered unprecedented attention from all walks of life. At the beginning of 2020, affected by the sudden Covid-19, colleges and universities all over China responded to the call of the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, actively responded to, and comprehensively applied various information means. Colleges and universities started online education, carefully and wholly formulated online teaching plans, and adopted various methods and ways to carry out various forms of online education.