Teaching Software Ethics to Future Software Engineers
The importance of teaching software ethics to software engineering (SE) students is more critical now than ever before as software-related ethical issues continue to impact society at an alarming rate. Traditional classroom methods, vignettes, role-play games, and quizzes have been employed over the years to teach SE students about software ethics. Recognising the significance of incorporating software ethics knowledge in SE education and the continued need for more efforts in the area of the teaching and learning of SE ethics, we developed an interactive, scenario-based Software Ethics Quiz. Our goal was to teach SE students about ethics in a comprehensive, open, and engaging manner through a combined approach of an online lecture followed by an interactive workshop with the quiz and a debriefing session. The anonymous quiz responses collected showed promising results regarding the engagement and efficacy of the lecture and quiz, with a slightly better rating for the interactive quiz. The voluntary student feedback collected suggested that a majority of the participants found the debrief discussion on the quiz scenarios to be very beneficial for learning about software ethics. In this experience report, we share our experiences, related educational resources including the quiz, and recommendations from lessons learned with the wider education community to keep driving this critical topic forward.
Fri 19 AprDisplayed time zone: Lisbon change
16:00 - 17:30 | Human and Social 8Software Engineering in Society / Journal-first Papers / Research Track / Software Engineering Education and Training at Luis de Freitas Branco Chair(s): Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology | ||
16:00 15mTalk | Property-Based Testing in Practice Research Track Harrison Goldstein University of Pennsylvania, Joseph W. Cutler University of Pennsylvania, Daniel Dickstein Jane Street, Benjamin C. Pierce University of Pennsylvania, Andrew Head University of Pennsylvania | ||
16:15 15mTalk | Navigating the Path of Women in Software Engineering: From Academia to Industry Software Engineering in Society Tatalina Oliveira CESAR School, Ann Barcomb Department of Electrical and Software Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Ronnie de Souza Santos University of Calgary, Helda Barros CESAR School, Maria Teresa Baldassarre Department of Computer Science, University of Bari , Cesar França CESAR School Pre-print | ||
16:30 15mTalk | Early Career Software Developers - Are You Sinking or Swimming? Software Engineering in Society Pre-print Media Attached | ||
16:45 15mTalk | An experience report on the use of Active Learning in Empirical Software Engineering Education: Understanding the pros and cons from the student's perspective Software Engineering Education and Training Maria Alcimar Costa Meireles UFAM - Federal University of Amazonas, Sabrina Rocha UFAM - Federal University of Amazonas, José Carlos Maldonado Loggi Tecnologia and University of São Paulo - USP and, Tayana Conte Universidade Federal do Amazonas | ||
17:00 15mTalk | Teaching Software Ethics to Future Software Engineers Software Engineering Education and Training Aastha Pant Monash University, Simone Spiegler Monash University, Rashina Hoda Monash University, Jeremy Yoon Monash University, Nabeeb Yusuf Monash University, Tian Er Monash University, Shenyi Hu Monash University | ||
17:15 7mTalk | Mind the Gap: Gender, Micro-inequities and Barriers in Software Development Journal-first Papers Emitzá Guzmán Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Ricarda Anna-Lena Fischer Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Janey Kok Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |