Share Paper: Ethics for Online Courses: Capabilities and Hospitality

1. Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer, Texas Tech University, United States

Abstract: In this paper I focus on what an ethics for online courses might include. I argue that a focus on capabilities, derived from the capabilities approach developed by Martha Nussbaum, and a focus on hospitality, as developed by various educational philosophers, drawing on Derrida, should form the backbone of an ethics for online education. I argue for an ethics in online education that balances the administration’s and teachers’ responsibility to facilitate individual capabilities with the development of "rupturing" practices of hospitality within online classroom spaces.