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Including teaching ethics into pedagogy: preparing information systems students to meet global challenges of real business settings

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ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society, Volume 45, Issue 3

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2874239.2874303

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This paper's discusses five real business capstone projects that were designed to provide an educational experiential learning to include ethics and professionalism in the pedagogy. This class comprised senior undergraduate Computer Science (CS) and Information Systems (IS) students. The projects involved teamwork and lasted fifteen weeks. The aim of the capstone curriculum was to foster a teaching environment to: 1) include interdisciplinary partnership among university departments; 2) cultivate local industry alliances; 3) encourage students' analysis and synthesis of skills and knowledge in a real business setting project. The National Society for Experiential Education (NSEE) practices were used while developing the curriculum and their eight Guiding Principles of Ethical Practices are used to describe the initial findings and lesson learned.

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Stavrakakis IGordon DTierney BBecevel AMurphy EDodig-Crnkovic GDobrin RSchiaffonati VPereira CTikhonenko SGibson JMaag SAgresta FCurley ACollins MO’Sullivan D(2021)The teaching of computer ethics on computer science and related degree programmes. a European surveyInternational Journal of Ethics Education10.1007/s40889-021-00135-17:1(101-129)Online publication date: 6-Oct-2021
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Skirpan MBeard NBhaduri SFiesler CYeh TBarnes TGarcia DHawthorne EPérez-Quiñones M(2018)Ethics Education in ContextProceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education10.1145/3159450.3159573(940-945)Online publication date: 21-Feb-2018
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Including teaching ethics into pedagogy: preparing information systems students to meet global challenges of real business settings
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      1. Codes of ethics

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Jarzemsky JPaup JFiesler CDoyle MStephenson BDorn BSoh LBattestilli L(2023)"This Applies to the Real World": Student Perspectives on Integrating Ethics into a Computer Science AssignmentProceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 110.1145/3545945.3569846(374-380)Online publication date: 2-Mar-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3545945.3569846
Stavrakakis IGordon DTierney BBecevel AMurphy EDodig-Crnkovic GDobrin RSchiaffonati VPereira CTikhonenko SGibson JMaag SAgresta FCurley ACollins MO’Sullivan D(2021)The teaching of computer ethics on computer science and related degree programmes. a European surveyInternational Journal of Ethics Education10.1007/s40889-021-00135-17:1(101-129)Online publication date: 6-Oct-2021
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Skirpan MBeard NBhaduri SFiesler CYeh TBarnes TGarcia DHawthorne EPérez-Quiñones M(2018)Ethics Education in ContextProceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education10.1145/3159450.3159573(940-945)Online publication date: 21-Feb-2018
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