Learning computer ethics and social responsibility with tabletop role-playing games
Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society
ISSN: 1477-996X
Article publication date: 4 March 2014
Abstract
Purpose
Tabletop online role-playing games enable active learning appropriate for different ages and learner capabilities. They have also been implemented in computer and engineering ethics courses. The paper aims to discuss these issues.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper presents the experience of implementing role-playing in several courses embedded in Web 2.0 environment, with an intention to confront complex and sometimes mutually conflicting concepts, and integrate them into a whole.
Findings
Typical examples introducing two basic scenarios representing individual and collaborative learning scripts are presented together with the detailed analysis how the games were performed, the effort to participate in, and to maintain them. Particular attention is paid to student feedback.
Originality/value
The paper concludes with the basic findings of the effects of role-playing in current learning computer ethics and social responsibilities courses, and recommendations for future implementation of similar asynchronous learning online activities in order to increase their academic value and prepare students for their forthcoming professional integration.
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Citation
Zdravkova, K. (2014), "Learning computer ethics and social responsibility with tabletop role-playing games", Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, Vol. 12 No. 1, pp. 60-75. https://doi.org/10.1108/JICES-09-2013-0038
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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