Strategies for using technology in the teaching of ethics

Abstract

Particularly with the advent of the World Wide Web, the Internet has become an important tool in education, both in computer science and across the broader curriculum. This paper describes several strategies for integrating the use of the Internet into a course on computing ethics. Those strategies include using the Internet as a research tool, as a discussion medium, and as a publication channel. While some of those strategies have proved highly effective, others---particularly using the Internet for discussion---have been much more problematical. This paper outlines the problems that arise in each of these usage paradigms and describes how the course has evolved in an effort to address the shortcomings.