My favorite session last week at the eLearning Conference was titled, Ethics Game.  See free trial at the bottom of this posting.

 

EthicsGame, a leader in online ethics education provides practical and experiential ethics education for strong learner-engagement. Our web-based learning tools are used by over 10,000 students in over 300 universities throughout the world. They can be used in a class as an assignment, built throughout a syllabus, or integrated across the curriculum to expose students to ethical decision making within their core classes both undergraduate and graduate. Our simulations align into business, nursing, healthcare, education, public administration, sports management as well as general education classes. Attached are detailed product overviews and below is a sampling of our tools, including a trial access you may share with other faculty. If you would like to see some of the tools for nursing or education, just let me know.

• The Ethical Lens Inventory ™(ELI) is a typology to help learners understand what core values influence the choices they make when no rules tell them what to do. The ELI provides a an awareness about your specific ethical priorities, strengths and blind spots.  Free tools are provided to faculty to expand the ELI within the classroom including Group Exercises, Structured Controversies, and a written assignment entitled “Your Personal Values Statement”.
• Ethics Exercises for Academic Integrity™ challenge students to understand Academic Integrity and the Student Code of Conduct. The Compliance Sequence consists of two exercises regarding Academic Integrity and the Culture Sequence has four separate exercises combining the Ethical Lens Inventory results with the questions around societal norms and the Student Code of Conduct including student loans, teamwork issues, plagiarism and cheating and social media.
•  Ethics Exercises for Accounting™ is based on the new AICPA Code of Professional Conduct which became effective on December 15, 2014. This three- part series makes the Code's conceptual framework for critical thinking easy to grasp. In a straightforward approach, your students will learn how to tackle issues of: 1.  Integrity; 2. Independence and Objectivity;  3. Firm Activities including Duty of Care, Professionalism, and Contingent Fees.
• Ethics Exercises for Critical Thinking™ is the newest addition to the EthicsGame Product Portfolio combining the short, iterative feature of Ethics Exercises with the Baird Decision Model. As students role play through these iterative exercises they will identify different ethical lens responses and learn common business practices, practicing the principles of critical thinking and ethical decision making. Merger Madness deals with a start-up that is being courted by two separate companies and the decision is which company is the best match. The various business decisions are all included in the Ethics Exercises, so learners will have to evaluate ethical strengths and weaknesses across the various functions of the company. In addition, because both companies have business strengths and weaknesses, the ethical assets and liabilities will have to be balanced against the business strengths and liabilities.
• Hot Topics Simulations™ are a much deeper experience, taking about 2 hours as an out of class assignment. Hot Topics puts learners into 2 real-world ethical dilemmas, engaging them in the ethical reasoning and value commitments used to support choices from each of the four ethical perspectives. At the end of each dilemma, learners write a formal business memo about their decisions and consider the law and compliance aspects of their decisions.  Quantitative assessment data are calculated based on simulation questions and two written memos provide a qualitative explanation of the students decisions.

EthicsGame Trial for Business - available to everyone

1. 1.      Go to www.ethicsgame.com
2. 2.      Under Register for a New Course, enter the class code CVQRER
3. 3.      Enter your email and a 6 digit password.
4. 4.      Click on the Ethical Lens Inventory, Ethics Exercises-Merger Madness, or a Hot Topics Simulation.
5. 5.      You can log in and out using your email and password as you like and the tools will recall where you left off.

Article in BizEd Magazine. http://www.e-digitaleditions.com/i/100231/30

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