TY - JOUR
T1 - Research Ethics Education in the STEM Disciplines
T2 - The Promises and Challenges of a Gaming Approach
AU - Briggle, Adam
AU - Holbrook, J. Britt
AU - Oppong, Joseph
AU - Hoffmann, Joesph
AU - Larsen, Elizabeth K.
AU - Pluscht, Patrick
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by the National Science Foundation Grant No. 1252692, "EAGER: Prototyping a Virtue Ethics Game" and Grant No. 1338739 "Graduate Virtue Ethics Education in Science and Engineering." Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
PY - 2016/2/1
Y1 - 2016/2/1
N2 - While education in ethics and the responsible conduct of research (RCR) is widely acknowledged as an essential component of graduate education, particularly in the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and math), little consensus exists on how best to accomplish this goal. Recent years have witnessed a turn toward the use of games in this context. Drawing from two NSF-funded grants (one completed and one on-going), this paper takes a critical look at the use of games in ethics and RCR education. It does so by: (a) setting the development of research and engineering ethics games in wider historical and theoretical contexts, which highlights their promise to solve important pedagogical problems; (b) reporting on some initial results from our own efforts to develop a game; and (c) reflecting on the challenges that arise in using games for ethics education. In our discussion of the challenges, we draw out lessons to improve this nascent approach to ethics education in the STEM disciplines.
AB - While education in ethics and the responsible conduct of research (RCR) is widely acknowledged as an essential component of graduate education, particularly in the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and math), little consensus exists on how best to accomplish this goal. Recent years have witnessed a turn toward the use of games in this context. Drawing from two NSF-funded grants (one completed and one on-going), this paper takes a critical look at the use of games in ethics and RCR education. It does so by: (a) setting the development of research and engineering ethics games in wider historical and theoretical contexts, which highlights their promise to solve important pedagogical problems; (b) reporting on some initial results from our own efforts to develop a game; and (c) reflecting on the challenges that arise in using games for ethics education. In our discussion of the challenges, we draw out lessons to improve this nascent approach to ethics education in the STEM disciplines.
KW - Games
KW - Pedagogy
KW - Research ethics education
KW - Responsible conduct of research
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U2 - 10.1007/s11948-015-9624-6
DO - 10.1007/s11948-015-9624-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 25694205
AN - SCOPUS:84955633225
SN - 1353-3452
VL - 22
SP - 237
EP - 250
JO - Science and Engineering Ethics
JF - Science and Engineering Ethics
IS - 1
ER -