International Journal of
Information and Education Technology

Abstract

The objectives of this research were: 1) to study the implementation of ethical resource - based learning enhancing ethical information literacy and moral behavior, and 2) to develop ethical information literacy and moral behavior of students in the program of Information Technology. The sample consisted of 38 undergraduate students of Information Technology Department who registered the course of information integration, in 2015 academic year. The research instruments were the ethical information literacy questionnaire and moral behavior questionnaire. The data was statistically analyzed by mean, standard deviation and t-test for dependent samples. The results of the study were as follows: 1) Ethical information literacy and moral behavior could be used ethical resource - based learning, the activities of ethical resource - based learning included: 1. provide content, resources and learning resources, 2. offer knowledge, skills, attitudes and experience to arouse interest for discussion of students, 3. select ethical resource, 4. group process to study the area of ethical resource, the teacher's role to provide assistance and facilitate, 5. Discuss knowledge to apply with other situation, 6. Explore attitude for learning activities using ethical resource, 7. present a performance with multimedia and 8. Summarize and evaluation of activities group. 2) Overall ethical information literacy of experimental sample before undertaking teaching was high ( x = 3.56, S.D. = 0.63), when evaluating the ethical information literacy after undertaking teaching was increase ( x = 3.77, S.D. = 0.74), and overall moral behavior of experimental sample before undertaking teaching was high ( x = 3.73, S.D. = 0.83), when evaluating the moral behavior after undertaking teaching was increase ( x = 3.91, S.D. = 0.77).