Methodological Guide

The Methodological Guide outlines the methodological framework for designing, delivering, and sustaining flexible, modular ethics education pathways by using this Platform. It brings together valuable insights from two key reports by the ETHICS4CHALLENGES team:

• Gap Analysis and Recommendations Report
• Compendium of Best Practices and Challenges in Ethics Education

These reports are based on real-world findings from research in both academic and non-academic sectors via focus group studies and online surveys, which aimed at identifying the challenges, gaps and needs, as well as the most effective practices in technology ethics education.

Building Effective Education Pathways with Research Reports

We highly recommend exploring these reports. They offer crucial insights that, combined with the Platform's resources, will significantly help you design more effective ethics education pathways.

The reports provide detailed information on:

• Ethics of Technology and Science in Higher Education:
  • Common problems and difficulties faced by instructors teaching ethics at undergraduate and graduate levels
  • Underlying causes and contributing factors to these challenges
  • Most effective teaching methods and best practices
  • Necessary topics for ethics education
• Ethics of Technology in the Non-Academic Sector (relevant to digitalization, biomedicalization, and environmental technologies)
  • Professionals' experiences with ethics and the current state of ethics training (including encounters with ethical conflicts, codes of ethics, and availability of training options)
  • Perceptions about ethics training
  • Specific ethics training needs (e.g., ideal duration, frequency)
  • Necessary topics for ethics training