LANGURE: Evaluations welcome!
What do you think of LANGURE? Any content we should add, delete, or revise? What about the design? Could you find what you were looking for? Suggestions for a more user-friendly site?
Eric Adles is in the process of re-designing the site, btw. By March 1st, 07, we intend to have the new site open for business. (For the very curious, you can see Eric's work so far at OpenSeminar.org/ethics.)
posted by Gary Comstock @ 10:56 AM
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Aloha Gary,
Well we introduced student in NREM 605 at the University of Hawaii to the Langure website yesterday in a lecture on "Research Ethics". We started with an Introduction to Ethics, which drew heavily from the
Bioethics Institute training I attended in NCSU in 1999. This was short (about 15 minutes) and the students really enjoyed going through the "Ethics Cases", which proved to be a good warm up for the rest of the lecture.
Then we spent about a half hour on Human Subjects research, which was mainly drawn from information provided by our Hawaii IRB director, but supplemented with the materials in PHI 816.
Then we used Charlotte Bronson's "Plagarism Exercises" to illustrate and discuss this topic. That completed the time we had available for this class. The students found this information interesting and valuable. Actually several said that they had little or no previous exposure to these topics and that they had no idea that research was this complicated. John Yanagida and I (course instructors) told them
that we wished that we had this exposure as grad students and that we have learned most after becoming faculty. We suggested that they also take a look at other topics on the PHI 816 course website, including: "authorship", "animals in research", "mentoring" and "professional codes".
We will be talking about Research Methods next week and may use some of the materials on statistics from PHI 816.
I think our course represents the successful use of selected Langure materials in an introductory grad course which is not primarily about ethics. We may consider expanding this topic next year, since it was well received by students and to allow greater coverage of ethics.
best regards,
Carl Evensen
University of Hawaii
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