Development and Impact Assessment of an Interactive Online System for Computing Ethics Education

计算机伦理教育交互式在线系统的开发和影响评估

• 批准号: 2337132
• 负责人: Ivon Arroyo
• 金额: $ 65.12万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-02-01 至 2026-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2337132&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Development; Impact; Assessment; Interactive; Online

This project aims to serve the national interest by advancing our understanding of how to provide effective ethics education for computing students. Computing systems and algorithms are used in all aspects of the modern world, including healthcare, governance, social media, defense, and business. Recent years have witnessed, a steady succession of ethical failures in the development and application of computer technology. Computing ethics courses have emerged, but as important as these courses are, ethics-education researchers have been increasingly aware of the drawbacks of relying on a single course to instill ethical behavior in students. This project will study the effectiveness of embedding ethics instruction throughout the computing curriculum. The Platform for Ethics and Responsible Computing Education (PEaRCE) will be developed and used to provide realistic interactive scenarios that highlight how to apply ethics in the creation and development of computing systems. The development methodology for this project will involve co-designing a wide variety of work-situation scenarios for the PEaRCE platform, in collaboration with computing educators, to fit the topics of their courses. A variety of features in the platform as well as curricular activities will be developed to accompany the PEaRCE simulations, to support educators who may have little or no background in ethics education. The research methodology, and main goal of this project, will be to analyze the impact of PEaRCE on students’ ethical awareness as they progress in their use of the platform. Research studies will involve about 1,000 undergraduate and graduate computing students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and their instructors, and later in computing courses taught at New York University. The NSF IUSE: EDU Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Engaged Student Learning track, the program supports the creation, exploration, and implementation of promising practices and tools.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目旨在通过促进我们对如何为计算学生提供有效的道德教育的理解来满足国家利益。计算系统和算法都用于现代世界的各个方面，包括医疗保健，治理，社交媒体，国防和商业。近年来见证了道德失败在计算机技术的开发和应用中的稳步成功。已经出现了计算道德课程，但与这些课程一样重要，伦理教育的研究人员越来越意识到依靠单个课程来灌输学生的道德行为的缺点。该项目将研究整个计算课程中嵌入道德教学的有效性。将开发和使用负责任的计算教育平台（Pearce），并用于提供现实的互动场景，这些场景突出了如何在计算系统的创建和开发中应用道德规范。该项目的开发方法将涉及与计算教育工作者合作，为Pearce平台共同设计各种工作定位方案，以适合其课程的主题。将开发平台中的各种功能以及现代活动，以参与Pearce模拟，以支持可能几乎没有道德教育背景的教育者。研究方法以及该项目的主要目标是分析皮尔斯在使用平台时进步的学生对道德意识的影响。研究研究将涉及马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特大学及其讲师的大约1000名本科生和研究生计算机，后来又参加了纽约大学教授的计算课程。 NSF IUSE：EDU计划支持研发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。通过参与的学生学习轨道，该计划支持了承诺实践和工具的创建，探索和实施。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估审查标准，被认为是珍贵的支持。