Yeaman, A. J. (2005). The Origins of Educational Technology’s Professional Ethics: Part Two — Establishing Professional Ethics in Education. Techtrends: Linking Research & Practice To Improve Learning, 49(2), 14-17.

Factors that influence the tech ethics:
– persistant (traditions, laws, institutional rules and professional licensing)
– changing (economic pressure, gov support, hype cycle)
– other (religion, moral) These are more personal things but professional ethics are based on sociology

Refers to Dewey (1930) who emphasizes learners as individuals. Learning always has to have a direct social application.

Different USA edu organisations wrote their ethics codes in the beginning of 20th century. The first national one dates from 1929.

Closer to ed tech as he cites Howard McClusky (1934): the change is inevitable, considering the effect of cars, radio, TV, cheap printing, motion pictures. Education comes to masses and it is just matter of time.