Misbehavior Online in Higher Education

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Misbehavior Online in Higher Education

Educational strategies and policy Higher education, tertiary education

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Collection: Cutting-edge Technologies in Higher Education

Language: English

Published by: Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Published on: 3rd January 2012

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 1 Mb

ISBN: 9781780524573


Introduction

As interaction in higher education among faculty, staff, students, and others becomes ever more digital, the welter of new online communication technologies have provided many unintentional opportunities for indiscipline and misconduct. As a result of this unfortunate increase in misbehavior, administrators and instructors in higher education are increasingly being called upon to remedy and forestall such actions.

Content Overview

Misbehavior Online in Higher Education is rich in contemporary case studies, analytical reports, and up-to-date research providing detailed overviews of various misbehavior, including cyberbullying, cyberstaling, cyberslacking, and privacy invasion, hacking, cheating, teasing, and enhanced prejudicial attitudes.

Approaches and Future Directions

The development of approaches to addressing these problems is discussed and examples are provided. The book also anticipates emerging problematic behaviors and explores the creation of new policies, programs, facilities, and technologies to tackle such problems.

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