"This book focuses on ethical, social, cultural, and legal implications of genetics, genomics and genetic databanking as they relate to concrete cultural and historical traditions"--Provided by publisher.

"This book addresses major issues regarding technology for young children, providing a holistic portrait of technology and early childhood education from the views of practitioners in early childhood education, instructional design technology, special education, and mathematics and science...

"This book brings together research and practices for successful written communication teaching among students of diverse linguistic backgrounds, allowing educators to implement new tools into their lesson plans for the benefit of their students"--Provided by publisher.

This book challenges scholars and researchers to answer questions such as: How can game design be improved to foster ethical thinking and discourse? What are the theories and methodologies that will help us understand, model, and assess ethical thinking in games? How do we use games in...

"Globalization, along with its digital and information communication technology counterparts, including the Internet and cyberspace, may signify a whole new era for human rights, characterized by new tensions, challenges, and risks for human rights, as well as new opportunities. Human Rights and...

Computer ethics and neoplatonic virtue: a reconsideration of cyberethics in the light of Plotinus' ethical theory / Giannis Stamatellos -- The tension between human and cyborg ethics / Anne Gerdes -- Constructivist and constructionist approaches to graduate teaching in Second Life: ethical...

This book uses general ethical principles derived from the work of John Rawls and Martin Heidegger, as a basis for discussion of ethical problems in information technology use within organizations including privacy, security, piracy, outsourcing of high-level jobs and the value of IT itself.

This book is a reference source on ethical and security issues relating to the latest technologies. It covers a wide range of themes, including topics such as computer crime, information warfare, privacy, surveillance, intellectual property and education. It is a useful tool for students,...

Understanding, appreciating and taking corrective steps to maintain and enhance social and ethical responsibility in the information age is important not only because of our increased dependence on information and communication technologies, but also because information and communication...

1. Ethical practices and implications in distance education: an introduction / Ugur Demiray, Ramesh C. Sharma -- 2. Ethical conundrums in distance education partnerships / Michael F. Beaudoin -- 3. Ethics in interactions in distance education / Paul Kawachi -- 4. Ethics in the ambit of distance...