Learning - Moments of Mist and Clarity

I think the most important issues that I learned concerned the ethics of open online learning. All these discussion took place in our lively ONL group 12. The ethical questions we discussed were multiple: how to protect student and faculty from cyberbullying and other sanctions when sharing; how to make sure that the tools we use will not extend electronic control on our students; how to make sure that the tools we choose do not increase students’ addictive social media use; how to ensure that when using electronic tools publicly available we know what we are making our students consent to (like pointed out by the Social Dilemma movie, if you are not paying for the product, you are the product); who are included and who are excluded when increasing open online learning as it seems that those who are well off already are the most active users of online learning opportunities; and last but not least what are we doing when we are supporting open online learning as active educational polic