Ethical Considerations in Computer Lab among Faculty and Students of Computer Science Department

Abstract

Aim: Aim of this literature review to develop the understanding regarding ethics in computer lab environment to avoid from misconduct and malpractice. The other aim of this article is to disseminate to the students and faculties to guide the importance of ethics in computer lab environment. Background: mostly students in University in Pakistan are not following ethics in computer lab environment among faculty and students of computer science department. There is noise pollution was noted in the computer lab, some students and faculties are observed to eating in the computer lab. Students were observed shouting in computer lab on lab assistant to claim system regarding issues, students are observed that after the completion of assignment they do not log out their Email IDs, and they do not switch of the computer to avoid the loss of electricity. Therefore, this malpractice impacts on behavior of students and quality of education in Universities in Karachi. Methodology: this is literature review article, google scholar was used to searching the articles for construct this literature review. Endnote program was used to create the citations and references in this article. Total 35 literatures were searched to understand this literature review than 17 articles were finalized to create the literature review citations. Out of those 17 articles, 9 are international articles and 8 were national articles. In this literature review 5 articles were review articles and other 12 were original research articles. Boolean operators “OR” and “AND” were used to searching the articles according to keywords. Conclusion: Mostly students and faculties in computer lab environment followed ethics in computer lab environment very well due to motivations from teachers in computer lab and lab assistant in computer labs. There are notice boards pasted on wall in computer lab to guide the ethics in computer lab among faculty and teachers to avoid misconduct.

Keywords: Ethical Considerations, Computer, Lab, Department, Faculty, Computer Science and Students