This text weighs the ethical consequences of a virtual education that posits a learning community based on the free exchange of ideas and the economy of knowledge cultivating the circulation of ideas. It explores the ethical implications of a virtual educational enterprise characterised by exchanges that do not take place face to face but are still grounded within the belief that technology can offer an ethical form of instruction responsive and responsible to individuals, groups and communities.
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