Teaching Business Ethics Online: Perspectives on Course Design, Delivery, Student Engagement, and Assessment

Denis Collins (), James Weber () and Rebecca Zambrano ()

Journal of Business Ethics, 2014, vol. 125, issue 3, 513-529

Abstract: The number of online courses in business schools is growing dramatically, but little has been published about teaching business ethics courses online. This article addresses key pedagogical design, delivery, student engagement, and assessment issues that should be considered when creating a high-quality, asynchronous online business ethics course for either undergraduate or graduate business student populations. Best practices are discussed within an integrative case study approach based on the experiences of a director of online faculty development and two accomplished online business ethics instructors, one teaching at a small college and the other at a research-oriented university—their successes, learning opportunities, and recommendations. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

Keywords: Teaching; Online education; Business ethics courses; E-learning; Distance education; Case study; Assessment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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