Moral education and A/IS standardization: Responsible and ethical design through education

Abstract

Despite years of training in computer science, there is currently no standardized, systematic integration of ethics into the curriculum. The development and communication of ethical standards represents one means to address this issue, however, in the absence of considering how information and computer science (ICS) professionals will make sense of ethical issues within a specific context, there is a growing consensus that there will be no immediate, enforceable actions that will follow ethical violations. A curriculum is needed. We consider critical features of a curriculum based on principles of moral education and review studies that have assessed aspects of an ICS ethics curriculum.