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Name: Three Frameworks for Ethical Decision Making and Good Computing Reports
ID: m13757
Language: English (en)
Summary: This module provides three frameworks that are essential to professional and occupational ethics classes being taught at the University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez during the academic year of 2006-7. The first framework converts the Software Development Cycle into a decision-making framwork consisting of problem specification, solution generation, solution testing, and solution implementation. The second framework zeros in on the solution testing phase of the software development cycle by offering four tests to evaluate and rank solutions in terms of their ethical implications. The third framework offers a feasibility test designed to identify obstacles to implementing solutions that arise from situational constraints like resource, interest, and technical limitations. These frameworks are abbreviated from materials that will eventually be published in Good Computing: A Virtue Approach to Computer Ethics that is being authored by Chuck Huff, William Frey, and Jose Cruz-Cruz. They can also be supplimented by consulting www.computingcases.org and Engineering Ethics: Concepts and Cases by Rabins, Harris, and Pritchard. This module is being developed as a part of an NSF-funded project, "Collaborative Development of Ethics Across the Curriculum Resources and Sharing of Best Practices," NSF SES 0551779.
Subject: Humanities
Keywords: Computer Ethics, Decision Making, Engineering Ethics, Ethics, Ethics Bowl, Socio-technical analysis
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 3.0
Authors: William Frey (wfrey@uprm.edu)
Copyright Holders: William Frey (wfrey@uprm.edu)
Maintainers: William Frey (wfrey@uprm.edu)
Latest version: 1.23 (history)
First publication date: Jul 20, 2006 6:08 am -0500
Last revision to module: Aug 20, 2012 7:48 am -0500

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Version History

Version: 1.23 Aug 20, 2012 7:48 am -0500 by William Frey
Changes: 
Added revised, shortened presentation on problem solving.  See version 6.
Version: 1.22 Sep 26, 2011 7:47 am -0500 by William Frey
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Added link to "Kelly's Cosmetic Surgery" as an example of using the ethics tests.
Version: 1.21 Feb 9, 2011 5:06 am -0600 by William Frey
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Presentation version 5 changed: slide on problem classification now better separates problem-types from solution strategies
Version: 1.20 Feb 7, 2011 5:40 am -0600 by William Frey
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Updated presentation of problem-solving
Version: 1.19 Feb 2, 2011 8:36 am -0600 by William Frey
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Added Vigo STS table.
Version: 1.18 Feb 1, 2011 9:52 am -0600 by William Frey
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Added new presentation.  (Expansion of description of STS)  Revised solution evaluation matrix table and added description of how to refine solutions.
Version: 1.17 Sep 22, 2010 6:20 am -0500 by William Frey
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Updated first link to Online  Ethics and Whitbeck article on analogy between ethics and design.
Version: 1.16 Sep 20, 2010 9:35 am -0500 by William Frey
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Changed PowerPoint presentation of problem solving.
Version: 1.15 Sep 18, 2010 4:04 pm -0500 by William Frey
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Reloaded PowerPoint presentation of Decision Making / Problem Solving.  The previous version file had been corrupted.
Version: 1.14 Sep 18, 2009 6:13 am -0500 by William Frey
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Added test rubric as media file.
Version: 1.13 Sep 11, 2009 1:58 pm -0500 by William Frey
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Added a section to problem specification having students use stakeholder imaginative projections and multiple framings.  Also added generic solution section to prime brainstorming process.
Version: 1.12 Jan 28, 2009 8:03 am -0600 by William Frey
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Added worksheet as media file on decision making.
Version: 1.11 Feb 29, 2008 10:43 am -0600 by William Frey
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Added a powerpoint presentation on decision making for ADMI 6005
Version: 1.10 May 30, 2007 9:01 am -0500 by William Frey
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Added section headings and two bibliographical references
Version: 1.9 Mar 2, 2007 8:01 am -0600 by William Frey
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Updated abstract
Version: 1.8 Jan 9, 2007 11:05 am -0600 by William Frey
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Added four exercises to help practice the different stages of decision making.  These exercises revolve around the risk assessment scenario
Version: 1.7 Jan 9, 2007 6:43 am -0600 by William Frey
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Last update failed to include links.  Links updated
Version: 1.6 Jan 9, 2007 6:32 am -0600 by William Frey
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Minor edits to summary.  Addition of links to Online Ethics and Computing Cases
Version: 1.5 Jan 9, 2007 6:24 am -0600 by William Frey
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Further stylistic edits
Version: 1.4 Jan 8, 2007 11:44 am -0600 by William Frey
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Further stylistic edits on code test and feasibility test
Version: 1.3 Jan 8, 2007 9:56 am -0600 by William Frey
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More changes on formatting.
Version: 1.2 Jan 8, 2007 7:30 am -0600 by William Frey
Changes: 
This module has been carefully re-edited and re-formatted.
Version: 1.1 Aug 6, 2006 6:57 am -0500 by William Frey
Changes: 
Edits for style and tables added to provide more guidance to students in decision making and socio-technical analysis

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