Educational Technology Practitioner-Research Ethics

Abstract

Many ethical issues arise when educators undertake any kind of research into their own practice with their own students, and a number of ethical guidelines have been developed for such research. But working with educational technologies may enable kinds of transactions and interactions and trigger related questions for teachers about good practice and propriety that either do not arise at all or are not thrown into relief so clearly in other modes of teaching and learning. The broad categories of ethical issues that apply to practitioner research into teaching may not fully address all of the ethical dimensions of research into teaching and learning with technology.