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What is Axiom

Handbook of Research on Transformative Online Education and Liberation: Models for Social Equality
A universally accepted rule
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The Criticality of an ICT Ethics Backbone for Transformation and Social Equality in E-Learning
Shalin Hai-Jew (Hutchinson Community College, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-046-4.ch025
Abstract
The ethics backbone for information and communications technologies (ICT) guides the evolution of the socio-technical spaces and technologies on the WWW and Internet. This backbone directs the ways people harness information for education and social betterment; how they create virtual communities, and what digital contents they share. There are numerous stakeholders to transformative e-learning throughout the world, both now and in the future. To achieve the realities of transformative e-learning that leads to social equality, it helps to first understand the guiding ethical values underpinning these technologies; in addition, it will be important to engage these ethics and to shape them in ways that would optimize e-learning as a force for the greater good. In an information society, e-learning educators need a solid grasp of ICT-based ethical reasoning and practice.
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Ontology
A rule or maxim accepted as a truth in the ontology. Axioms provide the inferencing or logical power of the ontology. Example : “If and only if a wine is red, then it is derived from a grape that is red.”
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