http://www.idolresources.com/four-ethical-issues-within-online-education.html
The four issues that were discussed involved the following four categories:
1. Intellectual property rights (probably why employees, who pay for advance course work has a waiver that if an employee leaves within a specified time period has to pay back the tuition)
2. Educational fairness which is interrelated into copyright laws
3. Privacy laws and the notion that once something is on the internet - is it every really "private?"
4. Universal design and the need to ensure that content is in a form or can be modified for all learners.
I really liked the inclusiveness of ethical issues in the article.
2 comments:
When I was thinking about Ethics in Distance Learning, I didn't even think about the situations that you mentioned - which certainly are crucial, thank you for this information. The dilemmas that came to my mind were from a student standpoint such as plagerism, having someone else do the work besides the student.
Beryl
I'm so glad you posted abouth ethics and elearning -- I hear from faculty often about their concerns regarding plagerism and cheating. One thing I hope this does motivate designers and faculty towards creating more innovative assessment tools. Perhaps I'm naive, but it seems that plagerism is a lot harder when your prof is asking you to apply content to create things rather just repackage the content through an essay or mutliple choice test.
Also -- with the advent of so many open source resources -- just who does "own" that content or does it all become part of a collective knowledge base? So many questions! --Tracey
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