Teaching Information Ethics in an iSchool

Authors

  • David J. Saab

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29173/irie357

Abstract

The iSchool movement is an academic endeavor focusing on the information sciences and characterized by a number of features: concern with society-wide information problems, flexibility and adaptability of curricula, repositioning of research towards interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary exchange (Harmon, 2006). Teaching information ethics in an iSchool would seem to be a requisite for students who will have an enormous impact on the information technologies that increasingly permeate our lives. The case for studying ethics in a college of information science and technology, as opposed to the liberal arts and humanities, has been regarded only marginally, however. In this paper I explore how I developed and delivered an information ethics course, paying attention to student receptivity and learning, course structure and assignments, as well as its connection to the wider curriculum and its efficacy.

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Published

2010-12-01

How to Cite

Saab, David J. 2010. “Teaching Information Ethics in an ISchool”. The International Review of Information Ethics 14 (December). Edmonton, Canada:10-16. https://doi.org/10.29173/irie357.

Issue

Vol. 14 (2010): Teaching Information Ethics

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