Ethics and Presentations/Speeches

Whether they're downloading music, videos, and software or updating their profiles on social networking sites, students are bombarded by a host of ethical issues online. Clarkson has embarked on an education program that reaches out to every freshman to approach ethical behavior online from the perspective of the Clarkson values statement.

Illinois State University has embarked on a multifaceted comparative study called the Digital Citizen Project, which investigates what works and what doesn't regarding P2P, media, and copyright. The latest baseline data will be shared and discussed, with its implications for industry and higher education. An update on technical monitoring solutions and legal service alternatives will also be featured.

Loyola's online tutorial, a requirement for next year's incoming class, is delivered as an animated cartoon that introduces students to a core value of the college-the importance of academic honesty. The tutorial follows the realistic ethical encounters of "Gabi the Greyhound" as she completes her first semester at college.

Loyola's online tutorial, a requirement for next year's incoming class, is delivered as an animated cartoon that introduces students to a core value of the college-the importance of academic honesty. The tutorial follows the realistic ethical encounters of "Gabi the Greyhound" as she completes her first semester at college.

Through system adoption of information technology for myriad purposes college and university campuses have significantly enriched higher education. Campuses have also unwittingly created new opportunities for abuse and crime in higher education. In this session, Sam McQuade and Dave Pecora of the Rochester Institute of Technology will share unprecedented research findings about high-tech offending and victimization by and among college students at a technological institute. They will also describe what RIT is doing to prevent, deter, and technologically interdict many forms of IT-enabled abuse and crime.

Although Google tells us that "computer ethics" appears on 130,000 Web pages, many of our legislators, professors, and judges would argue that it's nowhere to be found. The question of right and wrong in cyberspace confronts us daily in an age of file sharing, spam, pushbutton plagiarism, and tell-all blogs. This session explores some of the Internet's most challenging ethical issues with a panel of experts.