Incorporating Ethics in Computing Courses: Barriers, Support, and Perspectives from EducatorsIn-Person
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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15:45 - 17:00 | Integrating Ethics in Computing EducationPapers at 701A Chair(s): Karl Schmitt Trinity Christian College | ||
15:45 25mPaper | Developing Community Support for Computing Ethics Teaching AssistantsIn-Person Papers Robert MacDonald Georgia Tech, Cass Zegura University of California Irvine, Benjamin Shapiro Georgia State University, Jason Borenstein Georgia Tech, Ellen Zegura Georgia Institute of Technology DOI | ||
16:10 25mPaper | Incorporating Ethics in Computing Courses: Barriers, Support, and Perspectives from EducatorsIn-Person Papers Jessie J. Smith University of Colorado, Boulder, Blakeley H. Payne University of Colorado, Boulder, Shamika Klassen University of Colorado, Boulder, Dylan Thomas Doyle University of Colorado, Boulder, Casey Fiesler University of Colorado Boulder DOI | ||
16:35 25mPaper | “This applies to the real world”: Student Perspectives on Integrating Ethics into a Computer Science AssignmentIn-Person Papers Julie Jarzemsky University of Colorado Boulder, Joshua Paup University of Colorado Boulder, Casey Fiesler University of Colorado Boulder DOI |