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Ethics CORE: Collaborative Online Resource Environment for Professional and Research Ethics

The National Center for Professional and Research Ethics presents Ethics CORE, a collaborative online platform that connects various disciplines and specialties, disseminates best practices, and serves as a clearinghouse for ideas and materials. It provides comprehensive access to ethics materials, including codes of ethics, case studies, videos, and ethical dilemmas, for instructors, administrators, students, and scholars. Supported by the National Science Foundation, Ethics CORE promotes interdisciplinary collaboration and the sharing of discipline-specific ethics resources.

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Ethics CORE: Collaborative Online Resource Environment for Professional and Research Ethics

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  1. The National Center for Professional and Research Ethics Presents Ethics CORE Michael C. Loui University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  2. National Center for Professional and Research Ethics • Established at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010 • Goals • Connect silos across disciplines, specialities • Complement, interconnect existing resources • Serve as a clearinghouse for ideas, materials, community-building • Disseminate best practices • Centerpiece project: Ethics CORE

  3. Ethics CORE: Collaborative Online Resource Environment • Supported by the National Science Foundation, 2010 – 2012 • Prompted by requirement in America COMPETES Act (2007) • Commitment of University of Illinois Library to incorporate the resource into permanent collection • Built on NSF-funded HubZero platform

  4. Ethics CORE Audiences • Instructors • Administrators • Students • Scholars of research ethics • Practicing scientists and engineers • In compliance with accessibility standards

  5. Interdisciplinary Team of Principal Investigators (1) • C. K. Gunsalus (project director), Professor Emerita of Business • Nicholas C. Burbules, Professor of Education

  6. Interdisciplinary Team of Principal Investigators (2) • Michael C. Loui, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering • William H. Mischo, Director, Grainger Engineering Library

  7. Staff • Jill Peckham, Program Coordinator • Gene Amberg, Collaborations Director • Megan O’Reilly Mahoney, Digital Librarian

  8. Initial Partners

  9. www.nationalethicscenter.org

  10. www.nationalethicscenter.org

  11. Samples of Features (1) • Short videos: University of Nebraska—LincolnRCR videos, Ethics Unwrapped, Ethicana, … http://nationalethicscenter.org/resources/46

  12. Samples of Features (2) • Responsible Conduct of Research training modules developed by the Center on Materials and Devices for Information Technology Research (CMDITR), an NSF-funded S&T Center at University of Washington. https://nationalethicscenter.org/cmditr

  13. Samples of Features (3) • Starting pages for users: Instructors, … http://nationalethicscenter.org/?option=com_content&view=article&id=79 • From here, access ORI video “The Lab” • Online communities (groups): Sustainability Ethics, … http://nationalethicscenter.org/members/groups/sustainabilityethics

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  16. Samples of Features (4) • Two-minute challenges: Authorship, … http://nationalethicscenter.org/resources/141 • Key issues pages: Plagiarism, … http://nationalethicscenter.org/keyissuesinethics/published/plagiarism • Perspectives on Teaching Ethics essay series http://nationalethicscenter.org/tags/perspectivesonteachingethics • Search function 17 17

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  21. Benefits to Instructors and Students Comprehensive access to ethics materials: • Federated search of the scholarly literature • Codes of ethics • Case studies, scenarios, videos, ethical dilemmas, set in disciplines with teaching and discussion aids • Integrated Moodle course management system • And more! 22

  22. What’s Next? • Collaborate with Center for Engineering, Ethics and Society at the National Academy of Engineering to further develop the Online Resource Center for Ethics Education in Engineering and Science, with support from NSF • Identify, develop, and share discipline-specific ethics materials

  23. Contact Us! www.nationalethicscenter.org Supported by the National Science Foundation under Award SES-1045412. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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