伦理学视野中的网络教育伦理初探

On the Ethics of Online Education:An Exploration from the Ethical Point of View

网络教育已经成为现代教育的重要形式之一，其先进的教育理念、现代化的教育手段、富媒体化的教学模式和多元化的评价手段等使之附有伦理愿景——"任何人在任何时间、任何地点，从任何章节开始学习任何内容。"然而在网络教育的研究和实践应用领域，缺乏对网络教育中的伦理现象、行为和过程等系统化的研究和实践。本文首先提出了网络教育伦理概念并指出网络教育伦理的研究意义；然后，对网络教育伦理涉及的相关学科领域进行了论证和辨析；最后，从伦理学的视角对与网络教育伦理的相关研究进行梳理，划分出网络教育伦理研究的三个层次以及相应的研究内容，为进一步开展网络教育伦理研究和实践奠定了基础。

Online education has been one of the most important educational methods nowadays. Its advanced educational aproaches, modern educational tools, media-rich educational modality, and its multiple ways of evaluation contributed to an ethical vision of anytime anywhere learning. However, there is a lack of systematic studies on the practice of ethical phenomena, ethical behavior, and ethical process in online education. Considering this gap, this article brings forward the concept of ethics in online education, and points out the meaning of the research of ethics. In addition, it differentiates the types of ethics in online education. At the end, the article reviews the historical study from the ethical point of view, divides it into three hierarchies, and discusses corresponding contents of ethicsin online education. All these lay the foundation for the further research and practice of ethics online.