Peter, look at teh example discussion in the paper i referenced with an online link and you will find it very difference from your newsgroup experience or the amount of weekly discussion that took place among the whole class. in roxanne's material you will find a controlled experiment on teaching computer ethics comparing. Send her a message if you cann't find it, it was a thesis and their were some publications as well ( hiltz@njit.edu). face to face collaborative face to face as usually taught online collaborative online alone the task was the analysis of an ethical problem. On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Peter Timusk <ptimusk@sympatico.ca> wrote:
I found TV lectures to be good in that I could tape the lectures and follow my notes a second or a third time by replaying the lectures. This aspect of "Saving" the lecture also helped me study a course in computer ethics with Carleton's Diane Dubrule, that was a totally online course where a few of the class would show up each week to chat online with Diane.
Her studies in philosophy and computers go back to the 1950's I believe.Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Information Systems, NJIT homepage: http://is.njit.edu/turoff