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KEY TOPICS IN DEBATE ON DISTANCE EDUCATION
JASMINA ARSENIJEVIĆ
Faculty of Pre-School Teacher Training in Kikinda
MILICA ANDEVSKI
Faculty of Phylosophy, Novi Sad
DRAGANA MILIN
Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad
Abstract: Although tremendous growth and development of e-education is evident, together
with increasing enthusiasm of educational institutions to provide these types of services and
a growing interest for this type of education, in recent years there is also a concearn about
its ethical aspects, despite all seemingly positive aspects of e-education.
Change of the very nature of the educational process in distance education/learning also
brings new ethical dilemmas. They are primarily reflected on two areas: learning outcomes
(quality of education) and learning process, and more detailed on: ethics in teacher-student
relation, ethics on the Internet (given that e-learning is supported by Internet and web
services), ethics in using electronic resources (plagiarism), ethics in (mis)use of electronic
data, ethical behavior in exams and so on.
Given the dramatic expansion in recent years, e-education gets a large share of the total
education market, but it is still not there long enough to be able to implement long-term
analysis and formulate precise conclusions about its socio-economic impact on society as a
whole. Many ethical issues are still unanswered. This paper summarizes theorists and
practitioners dilemmas on distance education from an ethical standpoint, and raises new
ethical questions that have not yet been considered 1 .
Key words: e-education, e-learning, Internet, digital media, ethics, dilemma, higher
education.
1 This paper is the result of research project no. 47020 "Digital media technologies and
social and educational changes" in the project cycle between 2011. and 2014. funded by the
Ministry of Education and Science of Serbia.
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