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和信息专业人员在创建、管理和维护对研究、教育、商业和生活质量至关重要的全球计算和信息基础设施方面发挥关键作用。 因此，计算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道德问题，例如内/外包、知识产权和信息隐私。 在新的全球经济中工作要求计算和信息专业人员能够考虑以亚里士多德、边沁、佛陀、孔子、吉利根和康德等领先思想家为代表的一系列文化价值观和伦理观点。 为了拓宽和深化计算和信息专业人员的伦理视角，有必要开发和教授计算和信息伦理课程，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和信息专业人员能够欣赏和理解道德在其工作中的相关性，有必要找到教育激励方式，让研究生参与专业计算和信息项目，以考虑关键的道德问题。 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，该模拟作为创新课程的基石，重点关注价值观和伦理在全球社会计算和信息中的作用。 在先前研究的基础上，PI 将探讨三个主要研究问题： 计算和信息伦理课程的研究生如何使用教育模拟软件来了解重要的计算和信息伦理问题（例如知识产权）并获得实践经验在全球社会中？ 在面向国际的计算和信息伦理研究生课程中，不同学生群体中的地理共处一地是否会对模拟的使用产生影响？ 研究生水平的计算和信息伦理课程的学生是否从与同龄人或通过该项目开发的软件代理的互动中受益最多？更广泛的影响：项目成果将包括针对计算和信息伦理的免费开源模拟，该模拟允许学生参与案例并从中学习，并开发和实施自己的案例，然后与同学分享。 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，这将更好地帮助计算和信息专业人员在整个职业生涯中处理道德问题。