Alan LiuAsking #DigitalHumanities community: Does anyone know of a guide, protocol, manifesto, or discussion of the ethics of digital instruction (or digital humanities instruction)? I'm thinking of such issues as student privacy, FERPA law, unequal access to technology, etc. (Issues that bear, for example, on what assignments are ethical to ask students to do. Is it ethical, for instance, to ask all students to get an account on social media to do a social media assignment?)
Here's a good piece from the education research community on ethics of digital teaching: Lin, Hong. “The Ethics of Instructional Technology: Issues and Coping Strategies Experienced by Professional Technologists in Design and Training Situations in Higher Education.” Educational Technology Research and Development 55, no. 5 (2007): 411–37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-006-9029-y.
It seems like the #DigitalHumanities community should put together a working group to consult with the education research community on current issues in ethics of digital teaching. I think we need a shared protocol in DH (extensible for each nation's regulatory context) on higher-ed digital teaching ethics related to privacy, intellectual property (teachers', students', and others'), access & equity, and relation to tech industry and ed-tech. Not the same as similar issues for lower-ed.
On one hand, #DigitalHumanities seeks to encourage learning about digital online culture through new courses & assignments. On other hand, there are clear risks. Re: privacy alone, problems I have run into with digital assignments: students fearing vetting by future employers, foreign students adverse to surveillance by home nations, students subject to stalking. How can we develop guidelines in DH for rapidly evolving circumstances before regulatory & institutional frameworks can catch up?
Kathy Harris@ayliu @kfitz Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities authors broach this topic throughout the collection in various keywords and assignment briefs. Might we start with those curators who already work in this area, specifically as it relates to pedagogy so that we include the truly teaching-intensive faculty in this conversation?
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