Responsible innovation: ethics, safety and technology, some personal thoughts on the MOOC

ABSTRACT

I recently completed the Delft University of Technology Responsible Innovation: Ethics Safety and technology MOOC. The course involved a series of video lectures with associated readings, submissions and a peer review process. In this review I would like to offer an overview of the materials and topics and a few thoughts on the experience.

KEYWORDS:

• MOOC delft design engineering

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Notes on contributor

Jonathan Hankins is Foreign Scientific Correspondent for the Bassetti Foundation in Milan. He has recently completed a PhD in the Sociology of Working Practices, with Responsible Innovation the focus of his research.

ORCID

Jonathan Hankins http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8084-7524

Notes

1. See the Foundation website for details of their work http://www.fondazionebassetti.org/en/.

2. For a detailed account of the development of the keys through the various research frameworks see de Saille in an earlier volume of this journal (de Saille 2015).