Report on the delivery of the module

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Report on the delivery of the module Privacy,
Ethics, and Social Responsibilities at the Joint
M.Sc. Curriculum in Software Engineering

• Katerina Zdravkova
• keti_at_ii.edu.mk

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Contents

• Module syllabus
• Teaching materials
• Module delivery
• with M.Sc. students in Novi Sad
• with B.Sc. students in Skopje
• Students results
• Student publications
• Related activities
• Tempus poster days
• Concluding remarks

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Acknowledgements for the development of this
module
Developer
Katerina Zdravkova, Institute of Informatics, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Macedonia
Technical editor
Mirjana Ivanovic, Dept. of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Science, Univ. of Novi Sad, Serbia
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Module syllabus

• Ethics normative frameworks, values, analysis
  approaches.
• Privacy concepts of privacy, information
  privacy, information privacy legislative, privacy
  the global perspective / privacy enhancing
  technologies.
• Trust concepts and classification of trust
  reliability.
• Security information security, surveillance.
• Access information access, software piracy.
• Property intellectual property, ICT espionage.
• Social impact social impact audit, cultural
  impact and ethnography, globalization.
• Conduct professional conduct, codes of conduct,
  information risk management.
• Case studies.

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The module in numbers
Topic Hours Slides Size Time Status
Ethics 4 111 3,54 2068 Finished 90
Privacy 5 119 7,13 4159 Finished 95
Trust 3 66 5,23 3838 Finished 90
Security 3 77 11,60 4210 Finished 90
Access 3 58 8,19 3190 Finished 95
Property 4 67 10,30 2952 Finished 95
Social Impact 4 80 9,73 3437 Finished 80
Conduct 4 43 6,99 2758 Finished 75
Total 30 621 63 26612 One more week ?
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Module delivery

• University of Novi Sad
• M.Sc. students
• University of Skopje
• B.Sc. students in the fifth semester
• Announced interest to share the module
• STRL, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

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Report from Novi Sad

• Three cycles
• Last weekend in November
• Last weekend in January
• Last weekend in February
• Attended by 21 students (at least 15 have been
  present at all the lectures)
• All lectures have been recorded and part of them
  have already been finished

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The module on Moodle
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Assessment

• Coursework
• Individual assignments
• Small group team assignments
• Larger group team assignments
• Additional activity (optional)
• Preparation of papers for local and international
  conferences

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Group assignment 1 comparisons

• Comparison between ancient and nowadays view of
  ethics
• Similarities and differences between computer,
  business, medical, and political ethics
• How much are information systems and computerised
  medical instruments in contradiction with
  Hippocrates Oath
• How much eBanking restricts privacy and anonymity

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Group assignment 2 reviewing

• Problems caused by ICTs
• Programming dark side
• Viruses, warms, Trojan horses,
• Consequences (financial, lose of data, )
• IT risks
• Hardware risks consequences
• Software risks consequences
• ICT espionage
• Privacy, security and data protection in
• Marketing
• International cooperation
• E-voting

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Group assignment 3 discussion

• Professionalism and professional conduct IT
  professional point of view
• Comparison of codes of IT professional conduct
• Information risk management - from auditing point
  of view

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Student additional contribution

• Prepared conference paper (in Serbian)
• Ivan Mladenovic, Olga Hotomski Comparison of
  codes of IT professional conduct
• Prepared and submitted conference paper for
  BCI2007 (I hope it will be accepted)
• Sanja Kekic, Gordana Rakic, Slobodan Ðukic,
  Gordana Mijatovic How to recognise and Manage
  Information Risk Management

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Report from Skopje

• Whole semester module 30 lecture hours
• 10 group assignments of average quality
• First e-testing very poor results (74 students,
  the best with 73 of maximum points)
• Second e-testing hacked questions and answers
  ?????

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Related event Tempus National poster week
March 2007
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Concluding remarks

• Very nice experience
• Students were motivated to learn more
• Teacher was very happy with the students
• Rebeca gave fruitful contribution
• New version of the module will be prepared during
  the summer
• Unsolved task formal acceptance
• Gratitude to students for their interest,
  feedback and enthusiasm
• Special thank to Zoran Putnik for his support

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• Thank you for your attention ???