**4. Ethical issues in online teaching**

The introduction of virtual reality (VR) technology in online courses has raised several ethical issues. My focus of this section is the consideration of rights of students and teachers in regard to the dangers they are exposed to in online learning environments that introduce new and/or intensify existing ethical issues as they interact. These moral issues occur in part because electronic environments allow new kinds of behaviors that are simple to perform in electronic environments, which may entail new ethical rules [23]. As VR online relies upon the internet that is wrought with potential risks, what might we have to worry about once more business schools adopt the technology in their online courses. The purpose of this chapter is not to furnish responses to all ethical issues related to online courses using VR, but to raise further inquiries for shaping solutions to the ethical issues I consider, based on Kidder's advice to resolve our ethical concerns through energetic self-reflection. Relying on an inductive qualitative content analysis of archival data and observation related to the ethical issues faced by students and teachers using VR technology in online courses, I have identified ten key types of ethical issues, which are briefly discussed below:

#### **4.1 Privacy and confidentiality**

The issue of privacy and confidentiality raises questions about what kind of data is recorded and stored? Who gives permission to store the data? The use of VR technologies in online courses may be used to record, store and even share personal data which could be used in ways that jeopardize personal privacy and present a risk linked to misuse of users' behaviors, values and emotions [2]. Privacy is essential in keeping precious conditions of ethical humanhood. O'Brolcháin et colleagues note that people, if they are to that expand themselves and explore their opinions, or again behaving in certain manners need a degree of privacy [24]. However, reduced privacy influences the development of individual ethical personalities. In VR online courses, both students and teachers will no longer have any private space to make errors and explore distinct aspects of themselves as they are immersed in a digital environment [23]. In the European Union for instance, individual rights are protected by the general data protection regulation that ensure personal data protection to guarantee privacy. It is worth noting that VR technology, in particular online learning raises new privacy issues or exacerbates existing ones [2]. However, these issues are likely to be applied in the business schools that are currently using online

education, in which many of their activities are recorded electronically including staff meetings, classroom, students group projects and many other online activities.
