Challenges, Ideas, and Resources

by

Tom Jewett and Rob Kling

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Purpose

1. as the Instructor's Resource Guide to accompany Computerization and Controversy: Value Conflicts and Social Choices (2nd Ed.), written and edited by Rob Kling, published by Academic Press (to appear, Feb 96)
2. as a general source of information for anyone teaching (or soon to teach) a course in social issues of computerization -- whether or not they adopt this book for their class.

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Organization

1. The Introduction explains the background and motivation of this project.
2. Section I - Challenges and Ideas discusses in detail many of the challenges that we have faced in developing and teaching courses in social issues of computerization, and the ways in which we (and others) have responded to these.
3. Section II - Resources contains listings of related sources of information including other WWW pages, example syllabi, term projects, and in-class and homework exercises. We will add materials to this section as we learn of them.
4. References