Technology and Education Research Group

The unit Introducing Ethics in Information and Computer Sciences has just been published on OpenLearn, marking the completion of Giselle Ferreira’s project A Framework for Teaching Ethics to ICS Students and Practitioners using Open Educational Resources funded by the HEA Subject Centre for Information and Computer Sciences.

A core element of the rationale informing the unit is a view of dialogue as a medium for learning. The unit is itself the outcome of extensive dialogue carried out in a preceding pilot project, and it is hoped that, rather than constituting a static object, a ‘final word by experts’, the material will be taken away and further developed, used, ideally, to prompt further conversations with students, colleagues and practitioners in the area.

The unit explores various types of sources including codes of practice, plays and literary texts, academic texts, media clips and audiovisual, most of which are available for download from the site. The complete set of materials is available for re-use and re-purposing under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License and can be found online on the LearningSpace as well as on the LabSpace.

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