Collaborative Research: Educational Simulation for Computing and Information Ethics

合作研究：计算和信息伦理的教育模拟

• 批准号: 0734879
• 负责人: William Wallace
• 金额: $ 6万
• 依托单位: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-01-01 至 2011-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0734879&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Educational; Simulation; Computing

Modern global society is increasingly reliant on computing and information professionals to serve key roles in creating, managing, and maintaining the global computing and information infrastructure that is critical to research, education, commerce, and quality of life. As such, computing and information professionals need to learn not only technical skills but also how to resolve ethical issues such as in/outsourcing, intellectual property, and information privacy. Working in the new global economy requires that computing and information professionals are able to consider the range of cultural values and ethical perspectives as represented by leading thinkers such as Aristotle, Bentham, Buddha, Confucius, Gilligan, and Kant. To broaden and deepen the ethical perspectives of computing and information professionals, it is essential to develop and teach courses in computing and information ethics as part of professional graduate programs in computer science and the interdisciplinary information field. Further, to enable current and future computing and information professionals to appreciate and understand the relevance of ethics in their work, it is necessary to find educationally motivating ways to engage graduate students in professional computing and information programs to consider key ethical issues. In this project the PIs hope to accomplish this goal through development and evaluation of an educational simulation for computing and information ethics, which serves as the cornerstone for an innovative course focusing on the role of values and ethics in computing and information within a global society. Building on their prior research, the PIs will explore three main research questions: How do graduate students in a computing and information ethics course use educational simulation software to gain understandings of and hands-on experiences with important computing and information ethics issues such as intellectual property in a global society? Does geographical co-location have an impact on use of the simulation in the context of an internationally-oriented computing and information ethics graduate course with a diverse range of students? Do students in a graduate-level computing and information ethics course benefit most from interaction with peers, or with the software agents developed through this project?Broader Impacts: Project outcomes will include a free and open-source simulation for computing and information ethics, which allows students both to participate in and learn from cases, and to develop and implement their own cases that they can then share with peers. The PIs will develop a novel and highly participatory course built around the simulation, which will be implemented in professional computing and information master's programs across the country and the world, and which will better prepare computing and information professionals to deal with ethical issues throughout their careers.

现代全球社会越来越依赖计算机和信息专业人员在创建、管理和维护全球计算机和信息基础设施方面发挥关键作用，这些基础设施对研究、教育、商业和生活质量至关重要。因此，计算机和信息专业人员不仅需要学习技术技能，还需要学习如何解决诸如外包、知识产权和信息隐私等道德问题。在新的全球经济中工作要求计算机和信息专业人员能够考虑由亚里士多德、边沁、佛陀、孔子、吉利根和康德等主要思想家所代表的文化价值观和伦理观点的范围。为了拓宽和深化计算机和信息专业人员的伦理观点，必须开发和教授计算机和信息伦理课程，作为计算机科学和跨学科信息领域专业研究生课程的一部分。此外，为了使当前和未来的计算机和信息专业人员能够欣赏和理解伦理在他们工作中的相关性，有必要找到教育激励方式，让研究生参与专业计算机和信息项目，考虑关键的伦理问题。在这个项目中，pi希望通过开发和评估计算和信息伦理的教育模拟来实现这一目标，这将作为创新课程的基石，重点关注全球社会中计算和信息中的价值观和伦理的作用。在他们之前的研究基础上，pi将探讨三个主要的研究问题：计算机和信息伦理课程的研究生如何使用教育模拟软件来理解和实践重要的计算机和信息伦理问题，如全球社会中的知识产权？在面向国际的计算机和信息伦理研究生课程中，地理共址对模拟的使用有影响吗？研究生水平的计算机和信息伦理课程的学生从与同伴的互动中获益最大，还是从通过本项目开发的软件代理中获益最大？更广泛的影响：项目成果将包括一个免费和开源的计算机和信息伦理模拟，它允许学生参与并从案例中学习，并开发和实施他们自己的案例，然后与同龄人分享。pi将围绕模拟开发一门新颖且高度参与的课程，该课程将在全国和世界各地的专业计算和信息硕士课程中实施，这将更好地为计算和信息专业人员在其职业生涯中处理道德问题做好准备。