Incorporating Ethics in Computing Courses: Perspectives from Educators

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06220v2
• Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 23:56:23 GMT
• Title: Incorporating Ethics in Computing Courses: Perspectives from Educators
• Authors: Jessie J. Smith, Blakeley H. Payne, Shamika Klassen, Dylan Thomas Doyle, Casey Fiesler
• Abstract summary: Incorporating ethics into computing education has become a priority for the SIGCSE community. We surveyed 138 higher education computing instructors to understand their attitudes toward including ethics in their classes. We found that there are specific barriers preventing ethics from being included in some computing courses.
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• Abstract: Incorporating ethics into computing education has become a priority for the SIGCSE community. Many computing departments and educators have contributed to this endeavor by creating standalone computing ethics courses or integrating ethics modules and discussions into preexisting curricula. In this study, we hope to support this effort by reporting on computing educators' attitudes toward including ethics in their computing classroom, with a special focus on the structures that hinder or help this endeavor. We surveyed 138 higher education computing instructors to understand their attitudes toward including ethics in their classes, what barriers might be preventing them from doing so, and which structures best support them. We found that even though instructors were generally positive about ethics as a component of computing education, there are specific barriers preventing ethics from being included in some computing courses. In this work, we explore how to alleviate these barriers and outline support structures that could encourage further integration of ethics and computing in higher education.

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