Outtakes: Ethical Challenges of Studying Online Learning Curriculum

This outtake highlights several ethical dilemmas of studying curriculum in online learning environments. These dilemmas emerge in the spaces of (a) accessing the content of online or virtual curriculum products, (b) capturing the content strategically, and (c) analyzing it using appropriate methods. The author discusses some approaches to mitigating these dilemmas, but also proposes that they will remain somewhat intractable without more scholarly conversation about studying curriculum in virtual settings.