ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the challenges encountered and solutions proposed while creating and implementing a survey class as part of the Immersive Media Bachelor of Arts program at Columbia College Chicago. As a swiftly evolving multidisciplinary field, immersive media overlaps with computer science, visual arts, design, and storytelling and deals with ethical issues related to student capacity, privacy, accessibility, and inclusion. The chapter explores these ethical concerns, outlining ways to design the learning outcomes to address these issues. It further highlights the obligation to respect students’ diverse backgrounds and to include various voices representing different practitioners in the field. Finally, the chapter emphasizes that educators, practitioners, and researchers must collectively address these ethical challenges, focusing on building capacity, ensuring accessibility, fostering inclusion, and enhancing privacy as the field solidifies its disciplinary foundation.
