Report on the delivery of the module Privacy, Ethics, and Social Responsibilities at the Joint M'Sc'

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Report on the delivery of the module Privacy,
Ethics, and Social Responsibilities at the Joint
M.Sc. Curriculum in Software Engineering

• Katerina Zdravkova
• keti_at_ii.edu.mk

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Contents

• Module syllabus
• Teaching materials
• Module delivery
• with M.Sc. students in Novi Sad
• with B.Sc. students in Skopje
• Students results
• Student publications
• Related activities
• Tempus poster days
• Concluding remarks

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Acknowledgements for the development of this
module
Developer
Technical editor
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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.

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The module in numbers
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Module delivery

• University of Novi Sad
• M.Sc. students
• University of Skopje
• B.Sc. students in the fifth semester
• Announced interest to share the module
• STRL, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

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Report from Novi Sad

• Three cycles
• 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

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The module on Moodle
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Assessment

• Coursework
• Individual assignments
• Small group team assignments
• Larger group team assignments
• Additional activity (optional)
• Preparation of papers for local and international
  conferences

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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

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Group assignment 2 reviewing

• Problems caused by ICTs
• Programming dark side
• Viruses, warms, Trojan horses,
• Consequences (financial, lose of data, )
• IT risks
• Hardware risks consequences
• Software risks consequences
• ICT espionage
• Privacy, security and data protection in
• Marketing
• International cooperation
• E-voting

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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

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Student additional contribution

• Prepared conference paper (in Serbian)
• Ivan Mladenovic, Olga Hotomski Comparison of
  codes of IT professional conduct
• Prepared and submitted conference paper for
  BCI2007 (I hope it will be accepted)
• Sanja Kekic, Gordana Rakic, Slobodan Ðukic,
  Gordana Mijatovic How to recognise and Manage
  Information Risk Management

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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
  ?????

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Related event Tempus National poster week
March 2007
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Concluding remarks

• Very nice experience
• Students were motivated to learn more
• Teacher was very happy with the students
• Rebeca gave fruitful contribution
• New version of the module will be prepared during
  the summer
• Unsolved task formal acceptance
• Gratitude to students for their interest,
  feedback and enthusiasm
• Special thank to Zoran Putnik for his support

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• Thank you for your attention ???