Ethics

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Ethics

Ethics, Big Data, and Analytics: A Model for Application

May 6, 2013

The use of big data and analytics to predict student success presents unique ethical questions for higher education administrators relating to the nature of knowledge; in educatio…

Addressing Academic Dishonesty in the Age of Ubiquitous Technology

September 5, 2012

Key Takeaways Technology can help fight cheating that is itself based on technology, especially with tweaking of assignments and assessments in a way that makes it …

Obligation of Knowing: Ethics of Data Collection and Analytics

April 11, 2012 | A session at the ELI 2012 Online Spring Focus Session

The use of analytics in higher education is a relatively new area of practice and research. As with any new area of practice, a variety of issues will emerge as field progresses. For analytics, i…

Lance Eaton

Coordinator of Instructional Design

North Shore Community College

Danvers, Massachusetts

UNITED STATES

Does Higher Education Need a New Ethical Framework for the Internet?

March 22, 2011

This ECAR research bulletin is designed to help decision makers in higher education assess the applicability of four significant historical codes of ethics as they evaluate their current polic…

The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet

March 2, 2011

In this talk, Daniel J. Solove discusses how gossip and rumor on the Internet are affecting the lives of school students in some profound and troubling ways. Teeming with chat rooms, online di…

Is It Fair? Is It Legal? Using Active Learning to Teach About Intellectual Property and Citation Ethics

March 29, 2011 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2011

The panel discussion will explore ways of educating students about issues of information ownership, including plagiarism, copyright, and fair use. The panelists, from Dartmouth and MassArt, have de…

Academic Integrity

June 23, 2010

"Academic Integrity" is a Cornell University web site that discusses the importance of academic integrity in regards to plagiarism and cheating. It includes videos and resources on copy…

Rational Ignorance in Education: A Field Experiment in Student Plagiarism

January 26, 2010

Despite the concern that student plagiarism has become increasingly common, there is relatively little objective data on the prevalence or determinants of this illicit behavior. This study, from …

Plagiarism Prevention Without Fear

January 26, 2010

Could student plagiarism actually be reduced? And could it be reduced not through fear of being caught, but through ... education? The evidence in a study released recently suggests that t…