Report on the delivery of the module “Privacy, Ethics, and Social Responsibilities” at the Joint M.Sc. Curriculum in Software Engineering
Katerina Zdravkova keti@ii.edu.mk
Contents
Module syllabus Teaching materials Module delivery
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with M.Sc. students in Novi Sad with B.Sc. students in Skopje
Students’ results Student publications Related activities:
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Tempus poster days
Concluding remarks
Acknowledgements for the development of this module
Developer
Katerina Zdravkova, Institute of Informatics, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Macedonia
Technical editor
Mirjana Ivanović, Dept. of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Science, Univ. of Novi Sad, Serbia
Module syllabus
Ethics: normative frameworks, values, analysis approaches. Privacy: concepts of privacy, information privacy, information privacy legislative, privacy – the global perspective / privacy enhancing technologies. Trust: concepts and classification of trust; reliability. Security: information security, surveillance. Access: information access, software piracy. Property: intellectual property, ICT espionage. Social impact: social impact audit, cultural impact and ethnography, globalization. Conduct: professional conduct, codes of conduct, information risk management. Case studies.
The module in numbers
Topic Ethics Privacy Trust Security Access Property Social Impact Hours 4 5 3 3 3 4 4 Slides 111 119 66 77 58 67 80 Size 3,54 7,13 5,23 11,60 8,19 10,30 9,73 Status Finished 90% Finished 95% Finished 90% Finished 90% Finished 95% Finished 95% Finished 80%
Conduct
Total
4
30
43
621
6,99
Finished 75%
63 One more week
Module delivery
University of Novi Sad:
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M.Sc. students
University of Skopje:
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B.Sc. students in the fifth semester
Announced interest to share the module: STRL, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Report from Novi Sad
Three cycles:
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Last weekend in November Last weekend in January Last weekend in February
Attended by 21 students (at least 15 have been present at all the lectures) All lectures have been recorded and part of them have already been finished
The module on Moodle
Assessment
Coursework
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Individual assignments Small group team assignments Larger group team assignments
Additional activity (optional):
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Preparation of papers for local and international conferences
Group assignment 1: comparisons
Comparison between ancient and nowadays view of ethics Similarities and differences between computer, business, medical, and political ethics How much are information systems and computerised medical instruments in contradiction with Hippocrates Oath How much eBanking restricts privacy and anonymity
Group assignment 2: reviewing
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Problems caused by ICTs:
Programming dark side
Viruses, warms, Trojan horses, … Consequences (financial, lose of data, …)
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IT risks
Hardware risks + consequences Software risks + consequences
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ICT espionage Privacy, security and data protection in:
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Marketing International cooperation E-voting
Group assignment 3: discussion
Professionalism and professional conduct: IT professional point of view Comparison of codes of IT professional conduct Information risk management - from auditing point of view
Student additional contribution
Prepared conference paper (in Serbian): Ivan Mladenović, Olga Hotomski “Comparison of codes of IT professional conduct” Prepared and submitted conference paper for BCI2007 (I hope it will be accepted) Sanja Kekić, Gordana Rakić, Slobodan Đukić, Gordana Mijatović “How to recognise and Manage Information Risk Management”
Report from Skopje
Whole semester module: 30 lecture hours 10 group assignments of average quality First e-testing: very poor results (74 students, the best with 73% of maximum points) Second e-testing: hacked questions and answers
Related event: Tempus National poster week – March 2007
Concluding remarks
Very nice experience Students were motivated to learn more Teacher was happy with the students Rebeca gave fruitful contribution New version of the module will be prepared during the summer Unsolved task: formal acceptance Special thank to Zoran Putnik for his support