Games of Civility: Ordinary Ethics in Aleppo’s Bazaar

Global bazaar.

The women maneuvered their crude canoes down narrow alleys of brack ish water. They dipped their paddles lightly, gliding slowly past scrap-built houses elevated on spindly sticks that held the structures just beyond the reach of the tide. Here and there a head popped out of one of the homes to check who or what was passing. In the small harbor where the women beached their boats, the shoreline...

Serious Games to Teach Ethics

In this paper, we are focusing on digital serious games (edugames) and how they can be utilized in teaching in the ethics and citizenship domain. Our aim is to combine narrative techniques with intelligent tutoring techniques in a single model that adopts and based on educational theories and classroom educational strategies. The model has been used to implement an adaptive educational interact...

The Knowledge Bazaar

The concept of the Knowledge Bazaar as a paradigm for the development of Expert Systems, whereby knowledge bases are created dynamically using knowledge supplied by self appointed Internet communities is proposed. The idea espouses the creation of individual Knowledge Bazaars, operating in specific domains, but all operating through a generic Knowledge Bazaar XML Web application. Issues address...

Workplace Civility: A Confucian Approach

Civility/Incivility in the College Classroom

Incivility is any kind of disruptive classroom behavior that shows disrespect or disregard for the instructor and fellowstudents. It can dramatically diminish the effectiveness of a course and cause great stress for the instructor. This section starts with several sites that describe forms of incivility, suggestions for handling it, and current research on incivility. The remaining links provid...