**3. Ethics**

Ethics has multiple synonyms, such as honesty, integrity, values, commitments, honor, morality, principles, justice, responsibility, conscience, correctness. Of course, we must know that its implication and application differ significantly among the various existing cultures, even within the same continent, region, and country.

Ethics and honesty, crucial elements of human behavior, must be lived in academia by students and teachers. Strict punishments are inflicted on students who fail to comply with the norms of honesty and those who cheat. The teacher, from the beginning, must clarify these rules and their consequences. In addition, it is recommended to hold forums at the first day for students and teachers to introduce themselves and reach the productive levels of interrelation.

Student evaluations are also recommended to promote formative assessments with clearly described personal and group work, case studies, problem-based learning and projects, analysis, and proposals forums, among other interactive activities, with few summative evaluations used mainly for control activities. For these last evaluations, which are totally deferred in time and space, technological mechanisms allow students to be monitored using video cameras and fingerprinting, among other

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resources. In this way, it is not necessary to physically summon students to take their tests. Later on, we will propose an adequate training offer for teachers.
