Encouraging engagement in an IT ethics course by fostering creativity

Authors:
Elizabeth V. Howard
Affiliations:
Miami University Middletown, Middletown, OH
Venue:
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges - Papers of the Fourteenth Annual CCSC Midwestern Conference and Papers of the Sixteenth Annual CCSC Rocky Mountain Conference
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Developing and teaching a course in Information Technology Ethics poses a number of challenges for the computing educator. One of these challenges is to invite and encourage student engagement in the course material. In traditional computing courses, students complete hands-on technical projects incorporating concepts from the course material and students often invest deeply in these projects. In an IT ethics course that is reading, discussion, and writing-intensive, the solution to involving students is not so clear. One approach that I used to encourage student engagement was to foster creativity in their assignments. In this paper, I will share the strategies that I used to foster creativity as well as several examples of my students' resulting creativity.