Engineering educators face challenges in teaching ethics, such as a lack of training in ethics instruction and finding time for ethics. The aim of this project was to develop a sustainable blended online method for instructing students in how to navigate ethical situations and to compare this method with in-class lectures from trained faculty. The blended method was composed of an online module comprised of a video series featuring trained ethics instructors and an in-class discussion led by the regular professor. Through paired t-testing, the blended approach was found to be as effective as the joint-venture method. With a more widespread approach this method could be used for more than an introduction to ethics, with modules designed to cover ethical issues to a greater extent.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Hobson, John Thomas
• McKinzie, Zachary Alan
• Kamran, Wasih
• Renshaw, Dylan Michael

Subject

• Learning
• Culture
• Well-Being
• Industry
• Sustainability

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-032516-122804

Keyword

• Curriculum planning
• Education, Higher
• Interdisciplinary approach in education

Advisor

• Billiar, Kristen
• Pfeifer, Geoffrey

Year

• 2015

Date created

• 2015-03-25

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright