Dympna O'SullivanAndrea Curley and Damien Gordon TU Dublin, Ireland Dark patterns are user interface design choices that benefit an online service by coercing, steering, or deceiving users into making unintended and potentially harmful decisions. They are an increasingly common occurrence…
Aditya Johri George Mason University, USA I recently designed and implemented online role-play case studies in an undergraduate ethics course. I make students accountable to a person or a committee who has to act on the advice they receive. I…
Cindy Rottmann University of Toronto, Canada How can engineering educators facilitate student learning about ethical dilemmas using case studies? More importantly, how can we honour the micro-ethical nature of individual decision-making without ignoring the macro-political impact of these decisions? One…
What is this case also a case of? What are your underlying assumptions in having students go through your cases? Thomas LennerforsUppsala University, Sweden Our own research on cases in management education shows that cases provide heroic, individualistic and uncritical perspectives on leadership and…
Rob Lawlor Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied Centre, University of Leeds Several authors in Engineering Ethics Education Research claim that that “The best way to teach engineering ethics is by using cases”. But why focus on the best way to teach engineering…
SEFI @ Work: Inspiration Events invites you to an Ethics Webinar: Tuesday, 4 May 2021, 14:00 - 15:30 UTC (UK), 15:00-16:30 CET (EU), 9:00-10:30 EST (US)- Register here Introduction: Ethics and emotion are intrinsically tied together. Often we know when…
FROM MEMBERS Dear colleagues, We are happy to invite you to join us for the next edition of the Teaching Science and Engineering free online course! This 8-week MOOC is organized by the Teaching Support Centre at EPFL, one of…
Thursday, 22 April 2021 3pm – 5pm CEST - online on Zoom Register here Organisers and speakers: Thomas Lennerfors (Uppsala University, Sweden): thomas.Lennerfors@angstrom.uu.se Sarah Hitt (NMITE, The UK): sarah.hitt@nmite.ac.uk Star Wars IV: A New Hope ends with Luke Skywalker destroying the Death Star…
Dear SEFI friends, our February newsletter has been published and is available here Find out more about our SEFI 2021 Annual Conference going online, the new SEFI webinars, Ethics Spring School, SEFI Calendar of events 2021, member and partner news,…
"Blended Learning in Engineering Education: challenging, enlightening – and lasting?" SEFI Annual conference (online event) | 13-16 September | TU Berlin Dear colleagues,dear lecturers, In 2020, universities around the world switched their face-to-face courses to online teaching formats at short…