Netiquette in e-Learning

Anil K. Aggarwal, University of Baltimore

ABSTRACT
As more and more people communicate via social media it is important for users to understand the standards or etiquette they should follow. Many organizations and societies have their codes of conduct (American Computing Machinery, American Accounting Association, American medical Association, etc.) that members must follow. Unfortunately, such is not the case with the Internet, perhaps because the Internet is not controlled by a single entity. Given its proliferation and in many cases its abuse, it becomes more important to create a "standard" code of conduct for the Internet. Internet, however, is global and has numerous global players making it impossible to control individual's behavior. However, we can create netiquette for specific groups. This paper is an attempt in that direction. This paper studies Netiquette as it relates to eLearning. We will study Netiquette from the perception of one stakeholder, the student.

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Updated 03/19/2014