QNT 540 Research And
Ethics In e-Education
| Reflections: Wow, I had to dip back to my
undergraduate classes on Ethics and Morality. The more I have read and
researched, the more I am convinced there has been a big shift in the
morality of our society. One question that still causes me to be concerned
is when people state, “Whose ethics and whose morality”. Without a common
agreement on ethics and morality, social order and laws begin to break down.
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Here is a course description provided by the University
of Phoenix |
Course Description
This course is an overview
of the fundamentals of research and is designed to provide students with the
basic knowledge and skills needed to be successful in graduate level studies.
Ethical issues related to research, including basic theory and practice,
professional codes of ethics, governmental regulations, confidentiality, and
present and future controversies surrounding the integration of technology
into instructional processes will be of focus. Students will address the
issues of information and intellectual property, privacy issues in a digital
environment and the relationship of individual, governmental and societal
concerns in an ever advancing and changing electronic community.
Topics and Objectives
Ethical Issues Related
to Research
- Identify and apply
methods for analyzing ethical issues related to research.
Intellectual Property,
Confidentiality, and Privacy Issues
- Identify processes for
conducting online literature searches.
- Define ethics and the
need for technology-related ethics in the current information society.
- Identify the
University of Phoenix's requirements for conducting research involving human
subjects.
- Examine the ethical
issues that can arise when publishing reports of a research study.
- Examine the different
types of licensing associated with digitized works.
- Define and analyze the
differences among copyrights, patents, and trade secrets.
- Analyze the concepts
of e-mail ownership, privacy, rights, liable, and slander.
- Analyze existing laws
and guidelines regarding electronic mail.
Individual,
Governmental, and Societal Issues
- Analyze the impact of
technology on individual and social behaviors.
- Examine the
implications of free speech on electronic mail and the Internet.
- Analyze the ethical
ramifications of using the Internet to transport and store school,
student/employee, and personal data.
Integration of
Technology into Instructional Processes
- Examine the ethical
issues that arise when integrating technology into instructional practices.
- Analyze the impact
that technology has had on educational research.
Descriptive Statistics
- Analyze the purpose of
descriptive statistics.
- Identify appropriate
uses for measures of central tendency.
- Analyze the elements
of effective graphs and charts for data presentation.
- Examine the purpose of
standard deviation in data analysis.
Inferential Statistics
- Explore the use of
correlational statistics in educational research.
- Examine the purposes
of tests of statistical significance in educational research.
- Identify the rationale
for using null and alternate hypotheses.
- Examine a variety of
statistical procedures and determine when they are appropriate for different
research purposes
