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January 29, 2025

Sci-Fi storyline mapping starting from writing prompts

In this hands-on group-based activity, students work in small groups (3-4 members) to draft a science fiction storyline, namely the main actions happening in it, through a guided step-by-step activity. The exercise aims to reflect on technological innovation and the societal impact of a technology by fostering narrative imagination and through this process, expanding one’s moral imagination about technological innovations.

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Lavinia Marin, Gitte van Helden

January 27, 2025

A value sensitive analysis of 13 cases in ICT ethics

The exercise proposes a step-by-step activity in which students will perform a value sensitive design analysis of 13 cases related to computer sciences/ ICT technologies. Students are asked to analyse a technology case in small groups. They are asked to identify the underlying value conflict that pertains to contrasting stakeholders’ views. Students do so through group work by selecting and working on one morally salient case study with an identifiable ethical problem (the exercise offers 13 such cases to pick from, but instructors are encouraged to add their own cases to this list). The students are encouraged to solve the value conflict by searching for already existing solutions proposed by different stakeholders (for example, designers, journalists, scholars, engineers, policy makers, etc.), and then analysing how a particular solution prioritizes certain values over others.

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Lavinia Marin, Samuela Marchiori, Joseph Emmanuel Sta. Maria, Dmitry Muravyov

June 20, 2022

Tinkering with healthcare technologies. Interactive redesign of bio-medical artefacts from a crip techno-science perspective

In this exercise, students will engage with ethical issues in the design and innovation of healthcare technologies through a hands-on interactive tinkering workshop. Using a wide variety of scrap materials, students collaborating in small groups will alter existing healthcare technical artefacts in an effort to promote the values of inclusivity, accessibility, and social justice, and to question ableist assumptions surrounding medical artefacts. The interactive hands-on workshop is deepened through an engagement with stakeholder testimonials as well as crip techno-science and Warm Technology theories.

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Janna van Grunsven, Samantha Marie Copeland, Trijsje Franssen, Lavinia Marin, Cristina Richie

June 19, 2022

Design for critical reflection on Social Media Platforms

This exercise uses a value-sensitive design approach towards redesigning social media platforms for a different purpose: from being predominantly spaces of entertainment, social media platforms can become spaces of epistemic engagement with information in a fruitful manner by fostering the user’s critical reflection in engaging with information found on social media. The exercise challenges students to redesign user interactions on social media platforms in such a way that explicitly fosters reflective thinking for users about the information that they find online. Note: this exercise can be used in a suite of exercises on social media platform design, together with the Fake news exercise and the Design for information quality exercise.

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Lavinia Marin

June 18, 2022

Building and Publishing Open Educational Resources in Ethics Education for Engineers

This paper discusses the challenges and obstacles encountered in developing and publishing Open Educational Resources (OER) in engineering ethics education at a higher academic level, in the project Ethics Education for Engineers of the 4TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology. The main aim is to contribute to the larger project of providing OER at university level by providing insights gained from the process of gathering and publishing materials. These insights are intended to be suitable for use by other authors and teachers of OER. First, we provide an introduction describing the parties involved and the specific aim of our project. Second, we describe the difficulties that were expected in the proposal phase of the project and explain how we anticipated solving them. Third, we discuss the different problems we encountered once the project was put into practice. We describe in what way we answered to these unexpected challenges. Fourth, an overview is given of valuable lessons learned and some practical take-aways acquired through experience. Here we also discuss the character of ethics in the context of making modules suitable for empirically trained students and mention some possible blind-spots that 4TU.Ethics might not be able to consider from its sole perspective. Finally, we summarise what we have come to understand are the most important steps in undertaking a project such as this by manner of a blueprint for people attempting something similar in the future.

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Roel Veraart, Lavinia Marin, V.A.J. Borghuis

June 13, 2022

Learning outcomes for case-based exercises in ethics education for engineers

One of the ways teachers have indicated they would like to search the collection of Case-Based Exercises is by the learning outcomes or competencies they aim to foster. A teacher may, for instance, be looking for CBEs that stimulate moral creativity. To enable this, a standardized set of learning outcomes for labeling CBEs was derived from the learning outcomes found in the first batch of raw learning materials collected within 4TU.ethics.

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V.A.J. Borghuis, Lavinia Marin

June 13, 2022

Template for Educational Formats

All educational formats in the 4TU.Ethics collection are described in a standardized format, which is made available to authors and editors in the form of this template.

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Lavinia Marin, V.A.J. Borghuis

June 13, 2022

Template for Case-Based Exercises

All case-based exercises in the 4TU.Ethics collection are described in a standardized format, which is made available to authors and editors in the form of this template.

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Lavinia Marin, V.A.J. Borghuis

June 5, 2022

Design for informational quality on social media platforms - Teacher version

This exercise uses a value-sensitive design approach towards redesigning social media platforms from spaces of entertainment to spaces of epistemic engagement with information in fruitful manner. The exercise introduces students to the idea of informational quality, elaborates on the parameters to look for in the design of existing platforms and then stimulates the reflection and imagination by asking students to redesign some features of these platforms in view of making the platforms truth-conducive and knowledge-building.

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Lavinia Marin

June 5, 2022

Rana Plaza disaster and the problem of moral responsibility - Teacher version

This is an exercise that teaches students to discuss a case (the Rana Plaza building collapse in 2013) in terms of backward and forward-looking responsibility, and to make a stakeholder analysis of the actors involved and their values.

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Lavinia Marin