Digitality in Ethics Learning Units

Year 2020, Volume: 6 Issue: 2, 39 - 43, 31.12.2020

Claudia Dörfer , Maria Madrigal Gabriela Ulloa Jesus Osorio

https://doi.org/10.25233/ijlel.782400

Abstract

This study constructed and validated an attitude scale for ethics learning units using technology among undergraduate students in a Mexican business school. We sought to determine whether the motivation and usage of a learning-management system (LMS) combined with learning elements in mobile applications and the active support of instructor increases motivation, willingness to learn, learning benefit, and satisfaction in ethics learning units. The approach of this study is quantitative, transversal, and not experimental and used a sample (N = 227) of international business, administration, and public accounting undergraduate students. The self-reported data from students were obtained from anonymous questionnaire surveys. It is a pilot study and the sample presented is relatively small, which limits the applicability of the findings. Because the instrument is a self-support and is anonymous, participants can respond in socially desirable terms, remaining neutral in the response.

Keywords

Business Ethics, Digitality, Higher Education

Supporting Institution

Autonomous University of Nuevo León (MEXICO), Faculty of Public Accounting and Administration – School of Business

Project Number

#039/18 Herramientas tecnológicas en Educación Superior

Thanks

We would like to thank the students Marcela Danira Gonzalez Díaz and Katja Paola Serrato Chávez, who helped with the creation and distribution of the questionnaires as part of the Young-Researchers-Program.

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