Open AccessTeaching Information Ethics in an iSchool
Author(s) -
David J. Saab
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
international review of information ethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2563-5638
DOI - 10.29173/irie357
Subject(s) - information ethics , curriculum , engineering ethics , flexibility (engineering) , adaptability , multidisciplinary approach , liberal arts education , information technology , sociology , the arts , pedagogy , higher education , political science , social science , engineering , management , law , economics
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.