Archive for the 'Ethics' Category



Learning analytics and ethics

Published on July 2, 2013

One ethical code for learning analytics may prove impossible, we may need to shift from one to another according to context.


Feeling very angry

Published on January 10, 2007

I just logged in to FirstClass to see what was going on and in the vague hope that I would have received a message from my unhelpful gatekeeper. No such luck. However, logging on reminded me that while the gatekeeper claimed to have had no time in the past three months to OK a couple […]


Writing up

Published on November 3, 2006

Inspired by Anesa’s recent blog posts, I have started to write up my thesis! Karen did suggest a couple of months ago that I could bank some sections of my PhD which I was feeling confident about. Accordingly, I’ve written 1000 words on the ethics of online research, which wasn’t too complicated, as I drew […]


Community or settlement?

Published on April 6, 2006

I’m still puzzling over the big issue for Internet community research ethics. Is what we see online a virtual identity,which should be treated according to the ethical standards of human subject research, or is it published text, in which case the relevant ethical standards relate to copyright and acknowledgement? Quentin Jones article on cyber settlements […]


Ethics

Published on March 1, 2006

Just talked to Steve Godwin about doing participant observation on a second-year astronomy course. He had a pretty laid-back approach to the ethics of this. I suspect this is because the Mellon Project proposal went to the Student Research Project Panel as a whole, and specific elements of it weren’t explored in great detail. Steve […]