We’re conducting a research study about computing education!

Do you teach a computing or computing-related[1] course for students in higher-education[2]?

Who are we?
We are Jessie J. Smith, Dylan Doyle-Burke, Blakeley H. Payne, Shamika Klassen, and Casey Fiesler, researchers who are exploring the attitudes that educators have when it comes to including ethics in the computing classroom.

What is the study about?
We are conducting a survey to better understand your thoughts towards including ethics content in your curriculum. One of our goals is to explore what resources, structures, and standards might hinder or help your ability to teach these topics. We especially welcome and encourage computing educators who have never considered including ethics in their course or who feel strongly about excluding ethics from their courses to complete this survey.

What will I need to do?
The survey is a mix of multiple choice and open answer, and you can answer as much or as little as you would like. The survey should take on average about 15 minutes to complete. We will ask for some basic demographics, but won’t require any identifying information -- unless you would like to give us your email address to be informed about the results of the study.

Whether you participate or not, please consider sharing this survey with your social networks and anyone you know who teaches computing or computing-affiliated courses! If you have any questions at all, please contact Jess at jessie.smith-1@colorado.edu.

Click here to take the survey!

[1] Computing is not just a single discipline but is a family of disciplines. In a general way, we can define computing to mean any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computers. Thus, computing includes designing and building hardware and software systems for a wide range of purposes; processing, structuring, and managing various kinds of information; doing scientific studies using computers; making computer systems behave intelligently; creating and using communications and entertainment media; finding and gathering information relevant to any particular purpose, and so on. The list is virtually endless, and the possibilities are vast. There are currently five major kinds of undergraduate degree programs in computing, and each one provides a different focus and perspective on the discipline of computing: computer engineering, computer science, information systems, information technology, and software engineering. Resource: The Joint Task Force for Computing Curricula 2005. "Computing Curricula 2005: The Overview Report" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-21. 

[2] Higher-education for the context of this survey includes university, college, post-secondary, community college, and any education beyond high school.