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ArtTE5 Case Studies in Computer Ethics by Donald Gotterbarn East, Tennessee State University. Research has shown that one of the most effective ways to introduce ethical issues into the classroom is through the discussion of case studies among peers in several courses. There are, however, several pitfalls in this methodology. 1. Sometimes the case studies are only tangentially related to computer ethics. Even though they contain significant detail they are much too broad and the ethical issues are so clouded that students cannot get hold of the subject. 2. Sometimes the case studies are so vague that there is no foundation on which to base an ethical judgement. Each listener's imagination ends up filling in their own unspoken details of the case on which they each make different decisions. The result of discussing this type of case can be so chaotic that the audience is led to think that they have just been shown the truth of ethical relativism. 3. Sometimes teachers will only use catastrophic cases such as the Challenger disaster, because they are the easiest to find and are good attention getters. Full Article: http://csciwww.etsu.edu/gotterbarn/ArtTE5.htm |
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