Using Google Sites Technology to Teach Undergraduate Courses: Ethical Considerations

Abstract

The paper reports the outcomes of the collaborative use of Google Sites in teaching undergraduate courses in Economic Terminology at Volgograd State University. Based on a students' survey, that allowed the project team to collect relevant data grouped according to four criteria: accessibility, interactive capacity, problem solving facilities, and feasibility of online tasks, as well as on a teachers' questionnaire where page creation potential, interactive capacity, problem solving facilities, and task formulation options were assessed. The findings demonstrated that 1 Google Sites may considerably support instructors of undergraduate courses in their efforts to motivate students' learning and empower them with interactive course materials; 2 virtual education community needs experiential ethic norms for responsible behavior more than prescribed administrative rules of online collective action.