Ethical and Legal Issues in Teaching and Learning in Second Life in a Graduate Online Course

The Many

As a growing number of faculty use SL as a teaching platform, outside of anecdotal articles and the legal literature, no research exists on the many legal and ethical issues that affect course development. Ethical issues include abuse (“griefing”) nudity and lewd behavior, and false/misleading identities. Legal issues include creation and use of copyrighted and trademarked items, faculty intellectual property rights in objects and course content, and criminal behavior. Following the experiences of the instructor and 5 students, their 12-week journey is documented through interviews, journals, weekly course activities, SL class dialogs, and in-world assignments. Additionally, 5 faculty and staff experts who teach or train in SL at this university were interviewed and consulted, as well. This study provides insight for designing courses that foster exploration of rich learning opportunities outside a traditional classroom-both real and virtual.

Clinical Record Keeping

The Ethics of Conditional Confidentiality ◽

10.1093/med:psych/9780199752201.003.0011 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 139-150

Author(s):

Mary Alice Fisher

Keyword(s):

Risk Management ◽

Patient Information ◽

Ethical Issues ◽

Legal Issues ◽

Clinical Record ◽

Patient Centered ◽

Record Keeping ◽

Clinical Patient ◽

Chapter 10 discusses only ethical issues related to the confidentiality of patient information that has been recorded, whether on paper or electronically. It examines the shift away from clinical (patient-centered) and ethical (patient-protective) considerations and toward a risk management (therapist-protective) focus, and that documentation serves many functions, but addresses only ethical and legal issues related to confidentiality, regardless of the function being served.

Psychosurgery

British Journal of Perioperative Nursing (United Kingdom) ◽

10.1177/175045890201201202 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 12 (12) ◽

pp. 443-448

Author(s):

Marilyn Williams

Keyword(s):

Surgical Procedures ◽

Ethical Issues ◽

Mental States ◽

Legal Issues ◽

History Of ◽

The Subject ◽

The Brain

The use of surgical procedures to alter mental states raises many issues. Surgery on the brain has been known for thousands of years, but procedures developed in the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s, and the reasons for them, raised many ethical issues that remain with us today. The following article touches on the history of psychosurgery, the conditions treated, the literature on the subject, and the ethical and legal issues.

The Informatics Stack: A Heuristic Tool for Informatics Teaching

Methods of Information in Medicine ◽

10.3414/me16-01-0152 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 56 (S 01) ◽

pp. e129-e133 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Harold Lehmann

Keyword(s):

System Development ◽

Legal Issues ◽

Student Feedback ◽

Levels Of Abstraction ◽

Final Project ◽

Scientific Disciplines ◽

The Many ◽

Evaluation Approaches ◽

Masters Students

Summary Objective: To develop a heuristic framework for students to organize and apply the many concepts of informatics for rapid use. Method: Organization of curriculum material and recurrent refinement by student feedback. An Informatics Stack was developed based on several existing informatics and software-development frameworks comprising several levels of abstraction, from what a system is supposed to accomplish (4 levels) to how it accomplishes it (5 levels). At each level, there are specific concerns, types of interoperability, ethical and legal issues, testing and evaluation approaches and methods, and relevant scientific disciplines, and privacy (upper 5 levels), confidentiality (middle 3 levels), and security (lower 4 levels ) concerns whose levels overlap. An 8-week Introduction to Informatics course was taught for 6 years to masters students of informatics and of public health, based on the Stack, with a Final Project continually filled in during the course, where students applied the Stack to existing reports describing health information systems and their deployments. Results: Student feedback from 538 students working in 116 groups over 6 years shows near-universal appreciation that the Stack helped to organize their review of the report. Each student, from a wide variety of backgrounds, identified some level of the Stack as something they might have otherwise missed, and all levels were invoked by some student. Attributes identified by the students as missing from the Stack concerned the practicalities of system development. Conclusion: The Stack is a broadly-encompassing heuristic whose application can be learned and applied by students from a wide variety of backgrounds in an 8-week course.

Ethical and Legal Issues in the Use of Online-Based Health Services (E-Health)

SOEPRA ◽

10.24167/shk.v6i1.2626 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Fitriani Nur Damayanti ◽

Absori Absori ◽

Kelik Wardiono ◽

Sri Rejeki

Keyword(s):

Health Services ◽

Health Information ◽

Ethical Issues ◽

Health Workers ◽

Code Of Ethics ◽

Online Communication ◽

Legal Issues ◽

Public Health Issue ◽

The Internet ◽

The internet offers unprecedented power to provide users with health information for patients, health professionals, and professionals. Maintaining the integrity, data systems, and confidentiality of individual health information, quality of content, and consumer protection and the commercial interests of the health industry against unethical practices, are areas of greatest concern in the implementation and use of the Internet. However, there is no national and international legislation for regulating the use of online-based health services. This research is a Literature review that aims to explore ethical and legal issues in the use of online-based health services (E-Health). The review process begins by identifying journal articles that are relevant to the research topic. This study concludes that the use of online-based health services (E-Health) is an important public health issue. E-Health emerged as a tool for developing new diagnostics and therapeutic interventions. Ethical issues related to crossing clinical practice and online communication about health services. This allows discriminatory or unethical behavior and is not following the professional code of ethics. E-Health licensing standards and regulations have not been implemented in many countries. So that health workers are required to code of ethics in the use of online-based health services (E-Health).

Subject Matter Content Creation for Second Life Delivery

Teaching through Multi-User Virtual Environments ◽

10.4018/978-1-61692-822-3.ch022 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 414-432 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Michael N. DeMers

Keyword(s):

Social Presence ◽

Virtual Worlds ◽

Second Life ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Learning Objects ◽

Matter Content ◽

Successful Implementation ◽

Course Content ◽

Traditional Course ◽

And Performance

Worldwide, educators are experimenting with the myriad possibilities that Second Life and other multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs) provide for teaching and learning for online courses. Some find the ability to collaborate enhanced, others see the social presence improved, more acknowledge the ease of employing role play intriguing, and a few have employed highly complex simulations as means of delivering complex material. The ability of educators to develop, test, and effectively deliver meaningful educational content within virtual worlds is often limited by the rather steep learning curve such environments present. This chapter provides first a set of basic guidelines for preparing instructors for an incremental approach to content delivery and predisposes learners for successful implementation and performance. Second, using examples from the discipline of geography, specifically my subspecialty of geographic information systems (GIS), it describes the use of some basic tools contained within Second Life for creation of active course content through small learning objects. Finally, it demonstrates real-world examples of such in-world learning objects from a laboratory-based course to illustrate how traditional course content can be transformed to hands-on exercises in the virtual environment.

Clinical and Applied Experience in Rehabilitation Counselor Education

Rehabilitation Research Policy and Education ◽

10.1891/2168-6653.22.4.295 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 22 (4) ◽

pp. 295-306

Author(s):

Molly K. Tschopp ◽

Julie A. Chronister

Keyword(s):

Counselor Education ◽

Ethical Issues ◽

Legal Issues ◽

Rehabilitation Counselors ◽

Clinical Experiences ◽

Counselors In Training ◽

Rehabilitation Counselor ◽

The Core ◽

Preparation Phase ◽

Applied training of pre-practicum, practicum, and internship are important gateway experiences for rehabilitation counselors-in-training. Counselor educators and supervisors must be aware of requirements and expectations of counselor-in-training supervision and common ethical issues specific to these clinical experiences of rehabilitation counselors-in-training and their supervisors/faculty. The authors identify and discuss the CORE standards for practicum and internship in the preparation of rehabilitation counselors. Information is presented on the preparation phase, mandatory aspects of fieldwork and implications for curriculum standards, as well as supervision, and ethical and legal issues.

Drones - Ethical and Legal Issues in Civil and Military Research as a Future Opportunity

10.18662/jess/4.1/30 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 83-98

Author(s):

Geta Mitrea ◽

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

European Union ◽

United States Of America ◽

Ethical Issues ◽

Legal Issues ◽

Legal Regulations ◽

The European Union ◽

Advantages And Disadvantages ◽

Military Research ◽

Civil and military research is characterized by common rules in some issues because both have as main purpose the innovation and creativity goals. But, also each of them has their own regulations and particularities given by their special and unique field of action, civil and military. Step by step, drones gained their place in the actual research area and we need to know and explore all the actual legal regulations existing at European level and global one. We should not ignore the fact that drones have many positive advantages and disadvantages; and, we need to take into consideration all the ethical issues that can occur in different stages of research. A clear and coherent image of the ethical and legal issues that appear in actual civil and military research for drones is representative for our field of study. Also a future representation for their usage is significant and must be brought into discussion. We presented in this paper the case studies of European Union and United States of America who already have adopted legal and ethical regulations regarding the usage of civil drones or so named `Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems`. We will also have in our attention the comparison of current ethical and legal regulations from the European Union and United States of America and also the differences between civil and military drones and their existing particularities. At the end of our paper we include future possible usage of drones in the near future respecting the ethical issue that those include and we did not take into consideration.

Telehealth: technological, legal, and ethical issues

Social novelties and Social sciences ◽

10.31249/snsn/2021.01.02 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 169-178

Author(s):

Angelina Ivanova ◽

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Healthcare Professionals ◽

Ethical Issues ◽

Clinical Care ◽

Legal Issues ◽

Health Interventions ◽

Patient Relationship ◽

Public Health Interventions ◽

Legal And Ethical Issues

The use of telehealth is an increasingly common avenue for providing clinical care, performing research and conducting public health interventions. However, with the growth of telecommunication technologies, healthcare professionals have encountered an emerging new set of ethical and legal issues relating to the doctor-patient relationship, standarts, privacy, cost and liability. This article explores the main benefits and challenges that come with growth of telehealth.

Subject Matter Content Creation for Second Life Delivery

Gaming and Simulations ◽

10.4018/978-1-60960-195-9.ch116 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 256-272

Author(s):

Michael N. DeMers

Keyword(s):

Social Presence ◽

Virtual Worlds ◽

Second Life ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

Learning Objects ◽

Matter Content ◽

Successful Implementation ◽

Course Content ◽

Traditional Course ◽

And Performance

Worldwide, educators are experimenting with the myriad possibilities that Second Life and other multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs) provide for teaching and learning for online courses. Some find the ability to collaborate enhanced, others see the social presence improved, more acknowledge the ease of employing role play intriguing, and a few have employed highly complex simulations as means of delivering complex material. The ability of educators to develop, test, and effectively deliver meaningful educational content within virtual worlds is often limited by the rather steep learning curve such environments present. This chapter provides first a set of basic guidelines for preparing instructors for an incremental approach to content delivery and predisposes learners for successful implementation and performance. Second, using examples from the discipline of geography, specifically my subspecialty of geographic information systems (GIS), it describes the use of some basic tools contained within Second Life for creation of active course content through small learning objects. Finally, it demonstrates real-world examples of such in-world learning objects from a laboratory-based course to illustrate how traditional course content can be transformed to hands-on exercises in the virtual environment.