• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.221-241
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• 2024

The purpose of this study is to suggest the direction of korean universities' research ethics guidelines in line with the changing research environment. To this end, the relationship between research data management and research integrity was identified by analyzing domestic and international research ethics guidelines and principles related to research integrity, and the current status of research data-related guidelines of overseas research colleges was confirmed. Comparing the results of this analysis with the statistical results of the contents related to "research data" in the university research ethics guidelines for 204 four-year universities in Korea, this study drew implications for securing research ethics, which are national research ethics guidelines, and for aspects related to research data in each university's research ethics guidelines.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.1257-1269
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• 2010

The internet which is fast spread over all areas of our lives provides us with benefits of efficiency, productivity, and amusement; however, its features as an anonymous and non-face-to-face medium have raised a serious social issue of the collapse of internet ethics due to the abuse of it. Thereupon, the importance of internet ethics education has been highlighted to prevent side effects resulted from the internet and cultivate human-centered internet culture. In this paper, we suggests desirable methods for internet ethics education based on the investigation and analysis of the status of university freshmen's internet ethics. This research conducted a survey and analyzed its result after categorizing the status of internet ethics into the invasion of private information, invasion of intellectual property rights, harmful information, internet communication culture, cyber violence, internet addiction, and internet fraud. And based on the result of analyzing their internet ethics, this paper suggests desirable methods for internet ethics education. Next, internet ethics education was conducted by applying the proposed methods for internet ethics education, and its educational effect was evaluated. According to the result of verifying the educational effect measured statistically, it has proved that the suggested internet ethics education is effective to improve undergraduates' internet ethics.

• The Journal of Information Systems
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• v.5
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• pp.1-20
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• 1996

Ethics refers to the principles of right and wrong that can be used by individuals acting as free moral agents to make choices to guide their behavior. Information technology has presented our human mankind not only prosperity but also harms. This is why moral aspects should be addressed in the application of information system. First, a transforming tendency of international economy will be observed. Second, many issues regarding ethics and behavioral courses will be discussed. And a trend of information technology and five moral models will be examined. Third, traditional morals of Koreans and attitudes of Westerners about information technology will be analyzed. Fourth, it will be also discussed how private firms understand ethics and culture in the context of information handling. It is suggested that individuals who use information technology cultivate efficient and effective ethical principles contributing to public good in the society. For this purpose, the government should establish relevant legal devices.

• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.68-80
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• 2017

The invention of computers is one of the best things that have ever happened to mankind and undergraduate students can benefit immensely from the use of computers. However, observations have showed that in the present Nigerian society, there are a number of issues arising from unethical use of computers. Interactions with some undergraduate students revealed that a majority have fallen into the trap of unethical use of computers at one time or another. This seemingly alarming rate of unethical use of computers therefore calls for concern. A literature search has shown that awareness and perception of computer ethics have not been adequately researched within the Nigerian context. Thus, the main objective of this study was to examine the awareness and perception of computer ethics by undergraduate students in a Nigerian university. Descriptive survey research method was used and the study population was comprised of 12,894 undergraduate students of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. The multistage random sampling technique was used to select a sample size of 292 and the questionnaire was used to collect data. Findings showed that the level of awareness of respondents on issues associated with computer ethics was high (mean=45.19). A majority of the respondents had a favorable perception of computer ethics and the most prominent factor identified that could hinder adherence to computer ethics as noted by most of the respondents was the poor economic situation of the country. Part of the recommendations was that government at all levels should provide responsible and responsive leadership.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.33-41
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of problem-based learning(PBL) of information communication ethics on the problem-solving skills of fifth- and sixth-grade elementary school students about information communication ethics and their attitude. The findings of the study were as follows: First, the PBL-based teaching materials for information communication ethics could serve to stir up the interest of students by letting them face problem situations caused by the disfunction of the information society. Second, a wide variety of teaching-learning activities including cooperative learning and discussion were implemented while the selected students performed the given problem-solving tasks, and the activities had a very good effect on PBL-based information communication ethics education. Third, PBL-based information communication ethics education could be one of effective ways to boost not only the problem-solving skills of students but the teaching interest and capability of teachers.

• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.68-77
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• 2010

This paper was designed to identify influencing factors and to develop indices for measuring information and communication technology related ethics behaviors of college students majoring in information and communication engineering. Data collected from 288 students surveyed in Busan and Kyungnam area were used and the average of information and communication engineering ethics were below the mid-points meaning 'fairly ethical'. 'Passively violating behavior' showed the highest value (2.77 out of 5) while 'rudeness and insulting behavior' showed the lowest (1.65 out of 5). Second, variables of gender, age, religion, idealism, and relativism were revealed to be meaningful ones. Results can help educators understand the influencing factors in information and communication technology related ethics behaviors of college students as well as develop topics in educating engineering ethics.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.281-290
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• 2004

The purpose of this study is to propose ways of improving the education of information and communication ethics, which is greatly needed as technologies related to such information and communication are developed. For the purpose, this researcher examined the current status of such education for elementary school students and their parents and investigated dysfunctions of information and communication occurred even in the existence of the education. The researcher surveyed children who will lead future society and their parents in regard to their perceptions of information and communication ethics, and then proposed reduce of dysfunctions related to such information and communication and improving the education of the ethics at home and school.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.9-19
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• 2007

Recently, since the importance of the information communication ethics education for primary and secondary schools has being highlighted, researches and new instructional materials have been published actively. On the other hand, with the advance of e-learning, the various kinds of educational methods which consider the characteristics and the requirement of students are being developed. The educational method for Information Communication Ethics education is no exception. If the practical method for Information Communication Ethics education which considers students' requirements is developed, then a better educational effect can be acquired. In this paper, we decompose instructional design features into 4 components such as goal, model, contents, and media in order to design a better instruction for Information Communication Ethics education. And then, we analyze the relative importance of the instructional design components by using Conjoint method based on our questionnaire result. Finally, we propose an instructional design method for Information Communication Ethics as well as examine the differences among the instructional design components.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.67-78
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to explore information ethics issues based on academic big data from Web of Science (WoS) and to provide implications for information ethics education in informatics subject. To this end, 318 published papers from WoS related to information ethics were text mined. Specifically, this paper analyzed the frequency of key-words(TF, DF, TF-IDF), information ethics issues using topic modeling, and frequency of appearances by year for each issue. This paper used 'tm', 'topicmodel' package of R for text mining. The main results are as follows. First, this paper confirmed that the words 'digital', 'student', 'software', and 'privacy' were the main key-words through TF-IDF. Second, the topic modeling analysis showed 8 issues such as 'Professional value', 'Cyber-bullying', 'AI and Social Impact' et al., and the proportion of 'Professional value' and 'Cyber-bullying' was relatively high. This study discussed the implications for information ethics education in Korea based on the results of this analysis.

• Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 2014

As the development of the information society, our lives enriched and became more convenient. However it leads to the dysfunction. These dysfunctions appear especially to teenagers. Information Ethics education should be strengthened in order to solve these problems. However experts in the subject of Information Ethics are lacking. The goal of this study is to find some factors of professionalism of teachers responsible for Information Ethics education and to develop an assessment tool. In this study, we find some factors of professionalism of Information Ethics teachers, make some preliminary questions and select some of them by discussing with experts. Through a preliminary and main inspection we analyze the reliability and validity of the questions and develop the final questions. To practically use the assessment tool, we consisted the standards table. This assessment tool can be used for evaluation an Information Ethics teacher's ability, used as the basic materials for improving it and suggested making some systematic curriculums for teacher's training.