Teachers’ Understanding of Ethical Issues that Arise in Online Education Settings: A Report

Popularity of Online classes has increased globally. Specially the global pandemic (COVID-19) has increased their necessity. However, understanding of ethical issues that arise in relation to online classes is and should be of a concern. This paper reports an assessment of teachers' understanding of ethical issues that arise in online classes. The assessment was done by collecting written responses from teachers that were attendants of a brief intensive lecture regarding the issue. Unfortunately, teachers' understanding of ethical issues that arise in online classes was found to be less than satisfactory. The teachers' responses to the question "How ethical issues that arise in class room classes differ from those that arise in online classes" were too. Their responses basically state that all stakeholders should act in a responsible and ethical manner based on their innate good character. Therefore, this work shows us that work needs to be done in order to make players in online education have sufficient knowledge on the ethical issues that arise in relation to online classes