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Teaching Business Ethics Online: Perspectives on Course Design, Delivery, Student Engagement, and Assessment

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The number of online courses in business schools is growing dramatically, but little has been published about teaching business ethics courses online. This article addresses key pedagogical design, delivery, student engagement, and assessment issues that should be considered when creating a high-quality, asynchronous online business ethics course for either undergraduate or graduate business student populations. Best practices are discussed within an integrative case study approach based on the experiences of a director of online faculty development and two accomplished online business ethics instructors, one teaching at a small college and the other at a research-oriented university—their successes, learning opportunities, and recommendations.

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  1. School of Business, Edgewood College, 1000 Edgewood College Drive, Madison, WI, 53711, USA

    Denis Collins

  2. Palumbo Donahue School of Business, Duquesne University, 816 Rockwell Hall, Pittsburgh, PA, 15282, USA

    James Weber

  3. Online Professional Development, Edgewood College, 1000 Edgewood College Drive, Madison, WI, 53711, USA

    Rebecca Zambrano

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Collins, D., Weber, J. & Zambrano, R. Teaching Business Ethics Online: Perspectives on Course Design, Delivery, Student Engagement, and Assessment. J Bus Ethics 125, 513–529 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-013-1932-7

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