Improving Student Engagement in the Study of Professional Ethics: Concepts and an Example in Cyber Security.
In spite of the acknowledged importance of professional ethics, technical students often show little enthusiasm for studying the subject. This paper considers how such engagement might be improved. Four guiding principles for promoting engagement are identified: (1) <italic>aligning teaching content...
| Publicado en: | Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 683 - 699 |
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