A Neuroethics Learning Collaborative

这一行动资助了一个名为宾夕法尼亚大学神经伦理学学习合作项目的科学和工程伦理教育项目，该项目由M.J.Farah指导。神经科学越来越多地被用于传统医学应用之外的目的，从用于测谎的大脑成像到用于增强正常人精神功能的神经精神药物。当代神经科学研究生是科学家和公民中的一员，他们努力解决围绕神经科学在社会中的角色的伦理问题。这个项目教育了未来“神经伦理学”领域的神经科学家，即他们所在领域的伦理、法律和社会影响。为了最大限度地发挥该计划的教育影响，该计划将在线、实时和免费地提供给从几个偏远网站参加的教职员工和研究生。这门课程是通过一个在线社交学习平台提供的，该平台旨在鼓励来自多所大学的神经科学研究生分享个人资料，并参与跨机构边界的讨论。这个平台还允许课程发展成为一个强大的开放教育资源。随着教学和学习活动的进行，课程内容每天都会被记录下来，并由任何有兴趣自己和自己的时间参与课程的人，包括学生、教师、行业科学家和记者，张贴出来作为档案进行回放。该计划包括一些不同的教学形式，一些基于传统的课堂教育，一些利用万维网的网络功能。还有学生辩论和教职员工小组讨论。主题包括精神药物和其他脑增强方法的使用，脑成像在临床研究和实践之外的新应用，以及神经科学对责任的法律和道德概念的影响。

This action funds a project in Ethics Education in Science and Engineering entitled the Neuroethics Learning Collaborative at the University of Pennsylvania under the direction of M.J. Farah. Neuroscience is increasingly used for purposes outside of its traditional medical applications, from brain imaging for lie detection to neuropsychopharmaceuticals for enhancing mental function in normal individuals. The current generation of neuroscience graduate students is among the scientists and citizens who grapple with the ethical issues surrounding the role of neuroscience in society. This project educates the neuroscientists of the future in the field of "neuroethics," the ethical, legal and social implications of their field. To maximize the educational impact of the program, it is offered online, in real time and for free, to faculty and graduate students "attending" from several remote sites. The course is delivered through an online social learning platform designed to encourage neuroscience graduate students from multiple universities to share profiles and to engage in discussion across institutional boundaries. This platform additionally allows for the course to develop into a robust open educational resource. As the instruction and learning activity proceeds, the course content is "recorded" day-by-day, and posted for "play back" as an archive by anyone interested in participating in the course on their own, and in their own time, including students, faculty, industry scientists and journalists. The program includes a number of different instructional formats, some based on traditional classroom education and some using the networking capabilities of the world-wide web. There are also student debates and faculty panel discussions. The subject matter includes the uses of psychopharmaceuticals and other methods for brain enhancement, new applications of brain imaging outside of clinical research and practice, and the implications of neuroscience for legal and moral conceptions of responsibility.