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This paper considers the ethics of educational technology in terms of whether or not selected media and methods are beneficial to the teacher and student, or whether other motives and criteria determine the selection. The unprecedented risks to the user of current online methods – as one of the areas that ethical issues arise- are examined in details. The current developments in the distance education field are stressed, in view of the ethical responsibility of their adopters for the efficiency of its course delivery technologies.
The universal and ubiquitous use of computing technologies confronts us with new ethical dilemmas on a daily basis. In the current age of abundant information sharing and gathering, social networking sites (SNSs) are now thought of as incredible resources for collecting data on individuals. The question of interest for computer scientists, engineers and ethicists alike asks: what are the ethical limits for using data obtained from online SNSs?
Children and young people with disabilities have rights to be included and heard, but remain under-represented in research due to perceived difficulties in gaining their views meaningfully. We present brief case studies from three different projects which have focused on developing virtual reality educational technologies for children with autism[1] to illustrate how this has been achievable in practice.
Much research at the intersection of technology and ethics focuses on the impact of technological developments and innovation on wider society. This discussion considers the intersection of ethics and technology from the opposite direction; that is, how technology itself can support the ethical participation of people – particularly children and young people – in research.
Only 15 years have passed since the first digital libraries were deployed, only 20 or 30 since e-mail became available for us. But it is a matter of facts: there is a significant, growing corpus of digital content available for scholarly research in Humanities, and this is going to change the conditions of our intellectual lives.
Over the last decade there have been significant developments in Brain Computer Interface (BCI) technology, mainly driven by research funding initiatives. Accuracy, reliability, usability and aesthetics have all improved and there has been significant effort to transfer this technology from the research lab to the wider community. Commercial products are starting to become available. But who will be the ultimate beneficiaries of the technology?
Some expensive ICT devices, such as iPods and iPads, have been shown to have developmental and educational benefits when used in the right environment and with the right software.
Prediction markets are electronic marketplaces in which registered traders buy and sell shares in predictions about real-world outcomes. Based on the idea that most people hold at least a little genuine information and that the right technology can aggregate that information in a useful way, prediction markets have proven to be accurate forecasting tools in corporate and political domains.
The Hidden Lives Revealed website contains information from The Children's Society about children's homes in the period 1881-1981, together with anonymised case histories of children in care during this time. Some limited user interaction with the site is possible, by two methods: adding comments to a blog, and sending e-cards containing a picture from the site and a message from the user.
This case study reports on ethical issues at various development stages of a game-based virtual training system for automotive manufacturers in a multidisciplinary and multinational research consortium. A report that anticipated potential ethical issues, created within three months of the research project commencement, was reviewed and compared to the actual ethical issues that arose as the research project progressed. The review and comparison revealed that, similar to a design process, ethical issues should be addressed iteratively to match the dynamic nature of collaboration
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