Cyber Ethics

Units

Unit 1 Cyberspace and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4.0): Definitions, Dimensions
Unit 2 Cyber Ethics: Definition of Ethics, Ethics for IT Workers and IT Users
Unit 3 Cyber Technologies and Ethics 1: AI - Artificial Intelligence
Unit 4 Cyber Technologies and Ethics 2: Fintech, Blockchain
Unit 5 Cyber Media: Freedom, Dignity, Citizen Responsibility, Net Neutrality
Unit 6 Cyber Economy and Ethics: Driving Economic Powers
Unit 7 Cyber Security 1: Cyber Crime and Ethics
Unit 8 Cyber Security 2: Secret Services and Ethics
Unit 9 Cyber Peace: Autonomous Weapons and Ethics
Unit 10 Cyber Protection of the Vulnerable: Health, Bullying, Children
Unit 11 Cyber Religion: Dataism as Religion
Unit 12 Cyber Law and Governance and Ethics: Voluntary Values and Legally Binding Norms
Final Assignment

This open online course is designed to equip academia, professionals, organisations, and leaders with the awareness, knowledge, and thinking necessary to recognise, include and apply ethics to their decisions in the cyber space, in the context of artificial intelligence, Big Data, Blockchain and Fintech, social media, and other concepts. It is held 100% online to facilitate flexible, accessible learning no matter where participants are located, and is run over 12 weeks, focusing on one unit each week.

Schedule

The Cyber Ethics course will begin in the week commencing 18 September 2023.

The schedule for the weekly one-hour live sessions will be arranged with the input of the instructors and participants. All live sessions will be recorded and made available to registered participants on the course platform.

Workload

This 12-week course has an estimated total workload of 98 hours (including 12 one-hour synchronous learning sessions every week and estimated self-guided study time, excluding additional time for facultative networking).

Assessment and certification

Participants electing for the Certificate Track course will take a Final Assignment at the end of the course, and will receive an ECTS-accredited Certificate on completion of all course requirements to verify their achievement and increase job prospects.

Classes conducted in English require upper intermediate proficiency in English to follow the live sessions and to read the course material.

Globethics Academy aims to make its courses inclusive and accessible to all. All open courses, unless otherwise stated, are available as Basic Track or Certificate Track options.

The Basic Track option, without final assignment and certificate of attendance, is free of charge.

The Certificate Track option is based on the World Bank Development Indicators. The price of the courses is adjusted depending on where in the world the course participant lives. Learners from lower-income regions will pay less than learners from higher-income regions.

Certificate Track courses are priced as follows:

To pay the correct price for your country, on the registration page, you’ll have to select your course and your country income classification according to the World Bank Map, before following the instructions to complete your registration and payment, either via Stripe, PayPal or bank transfer.

What's included

All learning materials are delivered entirely online. You’ll have access to a course website, which includes:

• a unit overview
• course-specific materials and activities
• audio and video content
• discussion forums

All the interactive materials from our courses are available as downloadable PDF versions for low bandwidth connections.

Globethics Specialised Open Access Ethics Library

Registered course participants benefit of a full and lifelong access to the Globethics Specialised Open Access Ethics Library, upon free registration, with more than 75 special collections, inter alia collections on sustainable development and environmental ethics, more than 150 journals, and more than 3.6 million books, articles, research papers, conference reports and other documents.

Computing requirements

You will need broadband internet access and a desktop or laptop computer with an up-to-date version of Windows (10 or 11), or macOS (10.15 or higher).

It is also possible to access our learning management system on a mobile phone, tablet device, however, as you will have to download the moodle application for Android or MacOs.

For the assignments and final assignment, you will be required to use any word processor, such as Microsoft Word, Google Sheets, Pages, and convert it to a PDF, you can download it here.

Globethics is a quality provider for online and blended learning course programmes with a dual accreditation by the British Accreditation Council (BAC) and the European Agency for Higher Education and Accreditation (EAHEA).

Upon successful completion of the qualification requirements of this course, Certificate Track students are awarded a Course Completion Certificate

This course has been accredited by EAHEA for the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS), a credit system designed to facilitate the recognition of learning outcomes and student mobility within European higher education institutions. It helps students to move between countries and to have their academic qualifications and study periods abroad recognised. This online/distance course is subject to the 4 ECTS, 8 CATS, and 2 USC credits avocational education system in the field of Individual Courses.

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