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A variety of Web sites contain information valuable for this course. This section describes a few good sites. The ComputingCases.org Web site provides detailed case studies that we can use in class. Some of them overlap with cases described in Ethics for the Information Age, while others are different. The site introduces a methodology called “Social Impact Analysis” for exploring the social and ethical issues related to a computing system. It gives practical advice on how to lead an ethics case discussion, and it provides a worksheet that students can use when weighing the pros and cons of alternative actions. The home page for the site is ComputingCases.org. DOLCE is an acronym for Developing On/Off-Line COmputer Ethics. The DOLCE Web site contains several classroom activities, including quizzes and role-playing exercises, that you can use early in the term to help motivate the study of ethics. The site also contains several rubrics (evaluation sheets) that can help you grade written essays. The URL of the DOLCE home page is csethics.uis.edu/dolce. Edward F. Gehringer at North Carolina State University has created an attractive visual map that provides links to Web sites, news articles, and case studies related to computer ethics. The URL for the Ethics in Computing site map is ethics.csc.ncsu.edu. RCCS (Research Center of Computing & Society) is a particularly valuable site if you are integrating computer ethics in an existing computer science course. It provides case studies relevant to a wide variety of courses in the typical undergraduate computer science curriculum. You could also take advantage of these case studies if you are teaching a stand-alone computer ethics course. The home page for this site is www.southernct.edu/organizations/rccs. CERIAS is an acronym for Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security.**
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