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Foundations of Education – Spring 2010
Ethics Article Review
Ethics in E-Learning
“Ethics are the sets of moral standards for acceptable professional behavior, and all
professions have codes of ethics intended to guide professionals as they make decisions
about how to act. In it’s code of ethics, the National Education Association (NEA), the
with their students” (Kauchak and Eggen, 19). In an effort to investigate the ethics and
safeguards of ethics in an online educational setting the following article was analyzed
“Ethical Issues in E-Learning: Insights from the Application of the Stakeholder Analysis
in Three E-learning Cases”. The article clearly states in the abstract and introduction as
the authors discuss how E-learning faces many challenges, which are pre-existing in
many educational settings. The authors note there are several other essential issues, which
include the identification of the ethical issues which must be considered during the
specifically concentrate on the issue of identifying “…ethical issues that concern the
stakeholders involved, and stress the need for their consideration when implementing an
The primary findings of the aforementioned paper clustered their findings into
categories lie the authors’ suggestions for educators to “recognize the supreme
importance of the pursuit of truth, devotion to excellence, and the nurture of democratic
principle. Essential to these goals are the protection of freedom to learn and to teach and
the guarantee of equal educational opportunity to all. The educator accepts the
Pouloudi, 2) In each category a clearly defined role in achieving the most ethical
behavior is spelled out for the reader. Below is a summary of each category:
courses.
however their goal is to provide ethical boundaries for both the student
the school/university.
students and teachers will receive and send information. Inside this
content provider and the learner. The findings of this information also
noted that a universal language between the content author and the e-
endeavor.
The study found that too often the students are often disappointed by
the “static content of html pages, which are the containers of learning
Pouloudi, 5-6).
It is clear that ethical concerns, which have plagued the educational system from
its inception, continue to plague our current school systems. The introduction of
computers, online classes, and remote learning has amplified these same issues. The
author’s of this article have set out some very realistic, straightforward, and insightful
ideas on how to begin to provide an educational environment, which limits the amount of
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unethical behaviors on both the students’ and teacher/professors’ behalf. It should be
noted that without a plan for the present as well as a workable plan for the future our
school systems would never catch up to the exponentially maturing nature of the
technology age.
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Bibliography
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~nick/papers/EL_%20paper.pdf: 1 – 10.