2024/06/06 by Samira Khodaei, Anas Abdelrazeq, Ingrid Isenhardt
#data literacy #ethical literacy #ethics #focus group study #interdisciplinary research
paper · doi:10.48694/inggrid.3967
Data Literacy is crucial for a sustainable engineering education [11]. In aiming to find solutions to solve future challenges, mechanical engineering has started to integrate data literacy into the higher education curriculum [13]. However, ethics are rarely considered in current frameworks. Ethics are seen as a side topic or are equated to data privacy issues [2]. Since literacy aims to empower people to make informed decisions based on their or other data[12], the development of critical reflection and discussion on ethics is central for data literacy. In our contribution, we will first summarize current existing data literacy frameworks and their ethics concept. Then, through a focus group study among data literacy experts’ ethical questions in data literacy are collected and categorized. The study was conducted with 15 experts at the NFDI4Ing Conference 2022. This approach expands ethical issues in data literacy beyond data privacy towards applied, current and pressing ethical topics.