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The National Center for Professional and Research Ethics Presents Ethics CORE Michael C. Loui University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Slide 2 National Center for Professional and Research Ethics Established at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010 Goals Connect silos across disciplines, specialities Complement, interconnect existing resources Serve as a clearinghouse for ideas, materials, community-building Disseminate best practices Centerpiece project: Ethics CORE Slide 3 Ethics CORE: Collaborative Online Resource Environment Supported by the National Science Foundation, 2010 2012 Prompted by requirement in America COMPETES Act (2007) Commitment of University of Illinois Library to incorporate the resource into permanent collection Built on NSF-funded HubZero platform Slide 4 Ethics CORE Audiences Instructors Administrators Students Scholars of research ethics Practicing scientists and engineers In compliance with accessibility standards Slide 5 Interdisciplinary Team of Principal Investigators (1) C. K. Gunsalus (project director), Professor Emerita of Business Nicholas C. Burbules, Professor of Education Slide 6 Interdisciplinary Team of Principal Investigators (2) Michael C. Loui, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering William H. Mischo, Director, Grainger Engineering Library Slide 7 Staff Jill Peckham, Program Coordinator Gene Amberg, Collaborations Director Megan OReilly Mahoney, Digital Librarian Slide 8 Initial Partners Slide 9 www.nationalethicscenter.org Slide 10 Slide 11 Samples of Features (1) Short videos: University of Nebraska Lincoln RCR videos, Ethics Unwrapped, Ethicana, http://nationalethicscenter.org/resources/46 Slide 12 Samples of Features (2) Responsible Conduct of Research training modules developed by the Center on Materials and Devices for Information Technology Research (CMDITR), an NSF- funded S&T Center at University of Washington. https://nationalethicscenter.org/cmditr Slide 13 Slide 14 Samples of Features (3) Starting pages for users: Instructors, http://nationalethicscenter.org/?option=com_ content&view=article&id=79 http://nationalethicscenter.org/?option=com_ content&view=article&id=79 From here, access ORI video The Lab Online communities (groups): Sustainability Ethics, http://nationalethicscenter.org/members/gro ups/sustainabilityethics http://nationalethicscenter.org/members/gro ups/sustainabilityethics Slide 15 17 Slide 16 Slide 17 Samples of Features (4) Two-minute challenges: Authorship, http://nationalethicscenter.org/resources/141 http://nationalethicscenter.org/resources/141 Key issues pages: Plagiarism, http://nationalethicscenter.org/keyissuesinet hics/published/plagiarism http://nationalethicscenter.org/keyissuesinet hics/published/plagiarism Perspectives on Teaching Ethics essay series http://nationalethicscenter.org/tags/perspecti vesonteachingethics Search function 17 Slide 18 Slide 19 Slide 20 Slide 21 20 Slide 22 22 Benefits to Instructors and Students Comprehensive access to ethics materials: Federated search of the scholarly literature Codes of ethics Case studies, scenarios, videos, ethical dilemmas, set in disciplines with teaching and discussion aids Integrated Moodle course management system And more! 22 Slide 23 Whats Next? Collaborate with Center for Engineering, Ethics and Society at the National Academy of Engineering to further develop the Online Resource Center for Ethics Education in Engineering and Science, with support from NSF Identify, develop, and share discipline- specific ethics materials Slide 24 Contact Us! www.nationalethicscenter.org Supported by the National Science Foundation under Award SES-1045412. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.