Online Course
Technology and Ethics
Ohio State University via Coursera
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Overview
Class Central Tips
Example technologies at play today include nuclear energy; biological manipulations for warfare; robots for taking care of the elderly, and enhancing human capability; the use of technology for surveillance; the cultural changing power of the media which can create unlimited arrays of images real and virtual to support a point of view; and the internet with its world wide connectivity.
We need to look into social/technology assessment, the transfer of the technology as it is placed into practice, and the techniques/processes that are available for control within the legal, political, institutional and attitudinal environment within which the technology is placed as a way of protecting our rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
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Syllabus
Week Six: Controlling Technology Diffusion and TransferWeek Seven: Course Reflection
Taught by
Robert Bailey
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Reviews
2.3 rating, based on 3 reviews
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Diego Riccardi completed this course, spending 3 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be very easy.
A thread in the course forum started so: "Every single person whose ethics were talked about or were interviewed in this week's lectures were white, male Christians. The professor also talks about Christian doctrine as fact, not belief. As this is a Technology... -
Anonymous completed this course.
This was a really poor class. The Professor seemed not to have any research into the topic himself, so approaches it from his personal background, which is as a nuclear scientist. So, don't really expect any insight into other technologies, and no theoretical discussion at all of ethical systems etc.
As far as difficulty goes, its very easy. I listened to most of the lectures on 1.75 speed, as there is so little content, you could easily take in the lecture at this speed. -
Anonymous completed this course.
Professor Bailey makes the most interesting course on ethics. His very human approach, and the sensibility with which he leads the students to think over their personal lives and thoughts make this a course that not only provides knowledge, but a really touching reflection on how to live.