Learning Engineering Toolkit

CHAPTER 7 Learning Engineering is Ethical

Jordan Richard Schoenherr*

*The author would like to thank Jodi Lis for her insightful feedback throughout the writing process for this chapter.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible. – William James

What is Ethical in Learning Engineering?

Education and training are replete with questions of values and ethics.¹ For example, questions arise during instructional design and delivery about who should teach a course, what material will be covered, how that material will be presented, and how a learner’s knowledge will be assessed. The answer to each of these will have value implications within, and outside of, the learning context. Additionally, ...