Levinas and the ‘‘inter-face’’: the Ethical Challenge of Online Education
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Computers have introduced into our common experience ‘‘ideas about the instability of meanings and the lack of universal and knowable truths.’’ Online education, in particular, serves as a site for alternative enactments of the self, that is, the embodiment of multiple identities in learners. These multiple identities are rather complex: they are enactments of the self implicated in the politics, economics, and ethics of everyday life. The capacity of the Web to produce learning environments that are supportive of hybrid identities, complex discourses, and multiple relations among learners raises questions about the ethical response of online educators: How are identity and communication constituted in online education? What are the features of an ethical pedagogy in online education — that is, a pedagogy that considers the ethical implications of online communication?
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