The Ethics Challenge A social learning experience to develop critical thinking and self-reflection Matthew Bromley, Academic Manager, Professional Executive Education David Robertshaw, Academic Lead for Nursing, Health and Social Care [email protected] / @mattybrom [email protected] / @d_robertshaw
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The Ethics Challenge A social learning experience to develop critical thinking and self-reflection
Matthew Bromley, Academic Manager, Professional Executive Education
David Robertshaw, Academic Lead for Nursing, Health and Social Care
• What is Values Exchange?• Pedagogic context• Ethics and values – why? • Introduce you to Values Exchange and the Ethics Challenge• How could you use Values Exchange in your teaching?• How could you use The Ethics Challenge?
Values Exchange
• Online communication tool which helps different professions understand each other
• The Values Exchange is instant, educational, inclusive, open and detailed
• It involves professionals respectfully and effectively, helps shared decision making and builds trust and openness
• Using a series of colourful, interactive screens, individuals or groups of professionals are able to think through any issue in depth
• The scenarios can be developed for any focus and it could be used uni-professionally or interprofessionally
Why ethics and values?
• “Principles or standards of behaviour; one's judgement of what is important in life”
• “Moral principles that govern a person's behaviour or the conducting of an activity.”
• Values-based practice (for example, CSR)• Values-based recruitment• Graduate requirements for ethical and values-based students• Personal leadership
Overcoming barriers to learning• Professional audience• Students can lack motivation and low self-efficacy• Often have a sense of isolation, lack of feeling or emotional interaction • Well documented that teaching online needs a different pedagogical approach and
• Luke (2003) described how traditional teaching styles of the industrial era stress the learning of facts, subject-oriented material, and knowledge over any other learning process
• These types of interactions subscribe to low-level thinking, limit real world application, and inhibit problem solving (Boling et al, 2012)
• Values Exchange is a tool to combat these and develop critical thinking skills in conjunction with attitude and knowledge.
• CPD• Certificate• Badges• Analytical and critical thinking skills• Interprofessional• Engagement with a world-renowned Professor of Ethics• It’s Free!
What do students think about VX/TEC?
• “I thought this would be interesting but easy. It was definitely interesting, but not easy. From the 1st challenge I found myself really thinking about how I felt.”
• “I thoroughly enjoyed the ethical challenges. I had to really take a step back and think about the issues. There were times when I felt conflicted, knowing that there were two sides to the issue”
• “I found it was sometimes difficult to find the right words to express what I was thinking and feeling as well I would have liked.”
• “Great way to challenge myself and make me think about areas that I often push to the back unless I have to think about them.”
What do students think about VX/TEC?
• “I was not prepared for the challenges, but I was pleasantly surprised at how much they made me think. I always through myself to be a rational and logical person when it came to ethical decision making, but I found myself having to stop and search my true ideals before answering several times. Especially as the topic got more and more challenging.”
• “All in all, I greatly appreciated taking part in these challenges and cannot wait for the second part to come out so I can get involved again! I wonder if it might prove beneficial to offer ethics courses such as these to students in all programs as a core module. It benefits an individual to understand and test their own convictions as well as the reasons and thinking processes behind them. Thank you!”
• “I found myself feeling like I needed to 'champion the underdog' but then feeling like I was letting my heart rule my head. And found myself wondering what were my real feelings.”
What do students think about VX/TEC?
• “I found it was sometimes difficult to find the right words to express what I was thinking and feeling as well I would have liked. It was really interesting to interact with a wide range of people with different experiences and points of view from my on and I have enjoyed the experience”
• “Instructors, designers and online educators did here a damn good job and the flexibility of online learning is for sure as a positive factor. I am finishing now my degree in January at Derby but it will help me with my Master to think more critically and it would had help me by a lot of assignments.”
Summary
• How could you see this being used in your teaching?• Would you be interested in using the Ethics Challenge for your