Key phrases for discussion
- Communication infrastructure must seek to create “greatest good to greatest number.”
- (Un)ethical behavior diffuses among people and organizations.
- Learning throughout life for all is ethical priority.
- Distance education more than a product.
- Increasing focus on technology may decrease attention to ethical concerns.
- Issues of planetary scope require global learning communities that build global vision. Distance education can facilitate such communities.
- Distance education requires equivalent of ‘Dublin Core.’
- Those who facilitate other people’s learning must be driven by ethical concerns.
- Ethics implies memory; the capacity to compare; to think critically, create and anticipate. The good of the Internet should be available to all. Its use must build these faculties.
- For centuries we have been living in a culture of imposition and force, and people have paid the price of war and violence. Let's now evolve towards a culture of peace, tolerance, dialogue and understanding.