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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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The Effects of Teaching the Universality Thesis on Students' Integrative Complexity of Thought
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Vartiainen, Tero; Siponen, Mikko; Myyry, Liisa – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2011
The explosion in the use of computers has strengthened the need to address ethical issues in information systems (IS) education, and several frameworks have been expounded. However, little empirical research has been undertaken on their effects. This is a key problem: If IS scholars do not study the effect of information systems on IS students, IS…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Intervention, Pretests Posttests
On IS Students' Intentions to Use Theories of Ethics in Resolving Moral Conflicts
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Vartiainen, Tero; Siponen, Mikko – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2010
It is widely agreed that ethics teaching should have an important role in Information Systems (IS) teaching. Yet, there are no studies exploring how students apply theories of ethics in their decision-making. This is unfortunate, because teaching ethics is of little practical use if the students do not utilise the acquired knowledge in practice.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Information Systems, Ethics, Moral Values
Moral Problems Perceived by Industry in Collaboration with a Student Group: Balancing between Beneficial Objectives and Upholding Relations
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Vartiainen, Tero – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2009
Industry-university partnerships are common in the IT field. This paper reports on moral problems perceived by client representatives collaborating with student groups taking part in a project course in information systems education in a Finnish university. Twenty-two client representatives from IT organizations were interviewed during the course…
Descriptors: Industry, Information Systems, Ethics, Problems