اخلاق آموزش مجازي

Ethics in Virtual Education

Background: Ethics in virtual education is a preventive measure for unethical deeds in the environment of virtual education. Specification and compilation of ethical responsibilities of organizations dealing with virtual education with respect to their own rights in particular and others rights in general is really needed in the widespread and free domain of electronic communications. Methods: This article defines the precise meaning of ethics while analyzing it in the cognitive psychology and virtual education, and comprehensively distinguishing the boundaries between internal and external environments of organization with an approach to ideals, values and commitment of the organization for conceptualizing virtual education ethics. To define comprehensive ethical codes in the ethics of virtual education and stating accountability of organization for unethical behaviors, calls for such a conceptualization. The codification of ethical affairs would be useless without such a conceptualization. Therefore, virtual education ethics are defined through ethical responsibilities of an organization with respect to its internal (environment managers, advisors, professors, staff, etc) and external environment (publishers, decision-makers, authorities, government, etc) and behavioral communicative models based on respect to others rights. Conclusion: This article strives to elaborate the above points while putting the emphasis on the necessity of conceptualization.