Teaching and Learning Ethics Online: lessons from the BioEthics and Physics & Ethics Education Projects

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Green, D. & Wishart, J. (2008). Teaching and Learning Ethics Online: lessons from the BioEthics and Physics & Ethics Education Projects. In J. Luca & E. Weippl (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2008 (pp. 5947-5952). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
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Conference Information

World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (EDMEDIA) 2008
Vienna, Austria
June 30, 2008
ISBN 1-880094-65-7
  Joseph Luca & Edgar R. Weippl
AACE

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David Green, Jocelyn Wishart, Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol, United Kingdom

Abstract

Given the rapid advances of science, it is ever more important to raise young people’s awareness of the ethical dilemmas such knowledge brings, so that they can make informed decisions on issues that will affect them. As a result, the UK science syllabus for ages 11-18 has changed to include ethical issues. But science teachers are uncomfortable teaching ethics and many are unpractised in the necessary teaching techniques. The Bioethics Education Project (BEEP http://www.beep.ac.uk) and The Physics & Ethics Education Project (PEEP http://www.peep.ac.uk) have been created to fill this need. Both are online resources to support the teaching and learning of scientific issues that have a significant ethical component. This paper reports on the development and evaluation of the websites, and the challenges to science education culture posed by the rise of online learning and by the new pedagogic approach required to engage students in discussion of the social and ethical issues that arise.

Keywords

• Post Secondary Education
• Virtual Environments
• Information Sciences
• Professional Development
• Information Communication Technologies

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