Setting the Context: The Role Information Technology in a Business Ethics Course Based on Face-to-Face Dialogue

Journal of Business Ethics - Tập 48 - Trang 99-111 - 2003
Josep M. Lozano1, Conxita Folguera1, Daniel Arenas1
1ESADE-Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain

Tóm tắt

Based on the experience of a course taught by the authors, this paper seeks to show that an adequate use of IT in the teaching of a Business Ethics (BE) course depends on clarifying the assumptions about ethics and the place of the course within a programme. For this purpose it explains how IT can be used to strengthen a view of BE based on dialogue and mutual learning and it encourages the combination between virtual and face-to-face teaching. Finally, the paper examines the relationship between the use of IT, individual learning processes and communities of practice.

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