OER as a way to share student case studies

In my graduate communication ethics course, students consume a lot of case studies and then write one of their own. So many interested cases began to pile up with no reader beyond me. I am a big fan of using OER -- Open Education Resources -- for my courses, and thought why not help our students create one showcasing their ethics case studies. Now into our second volume, I present What If: Ethics Case Studies.

Cases use various philosophies to illustrate how a case can be analyzed weighing principles/values, stakeholders, and facts. Here's a peek at the table of contents:

The OER begins with a short introduction and then case links below are organized by the philosophy used for analysis. 

Introduction

Communitarianism

Your New Backseat Driver: A Communitarianism Approach to the Government’s Implementation of Advanced Drunk and Impaired Driving Technology

Celebrity Influence and Medication Scarcity: An Ethical Examination through a Communitarian Lens

Towards Ethical and Effective Emergency Response: A Cosmopolitan Perspective on the Tragic Case of Debra Stevens in Arkansas

Dialogic Ethics

From Bamboo Bliss to Social Media Crisis: The Kyte Baby Maternity Leave Debacle

She’s Drunk, But Should She Go Home? A Case Study Using Dialogic Ethics

Ethics of Care

The Case Study of the Withheld Sales

Ethics of Trust

Fallout of Alabama Baseball Coach Brian Bohannon's Gambling Scandal Using Ethics of Trust

Unauthorized Use of Shubnum Khan's Headshots and Watsuji’s Ethics of Trust Analysis

Rawl's Theory of Justice

A Case Study of the Princess of Wales' Photoshop Manipulation Incident 

Ubuntu

Canadian government decision to not search landfill for the bodies of three murdered Indigenous Women

From Disappointment to Discovery: Ubuntu Ethics and the Rebirth of No Man's Sky

Virtue Ethics

Alyssa Milano’s GoFundMe Baseball Fundraiser

A Case Study of a Mississippi Daycare Nightmare

I am extremely proud of my students for their willingness to share their work with others in the OER format. We have it set up where other instructors can remix cases for their own courses.