Today I’m presenting at ASIS&T’s annual conference as part of a panel entitled “Platform as Theoretical Framework Rather Than Just Empirical Context: How Information Science Scholars Examine Digital Platforms.” My part concerns how I approach educational technology platforms from a simplified theoretical perspective; I also walk through a quick case study that I’ve been working on. Slides are available in my research repository and a reading list is available on this website.
Author: Kyle M. L. Jones
Dr. Kyle M. L. Jones is an associate professor in the Department of Library and Information Science within the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University-Indianapolis (IUPUI). Get in touch with Dr. Jones here.
Research Report Published with the Future of Privacy Forum
Entitled “The Datafied Student: Why students’ data privacy matters and the responsibility to protect it,” this just-published report for the Future of Privacy Forum explains to policymakers and higher education stakeholders why student privacy is worth protecting and emerging conditions negatively affecting it.
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New Publication Available: “A Measurement of Faculty Views on the Meaning and Value of Student Privacy”
It’s a great pleasure to announce my co-authored piece forthcoming in the Journal of Computing in Higher Education and provide early access with a preprint.
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Article Highlight: Libraries, Power, and Justice: Toward a Sociohistorically Informed Intellectual Freedom
This Article Highlight features work by Alessandra Seiter published in Progressive Librarian.
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Article Highlight: Cultivating Imagination: A Case for Teaching Information Ethics with Works of Fiction
This Article Highlight features work by Iulian Vamanu published in the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science.
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Article Highlight: Sins of Omission: Critical Informatics Perspectives on Privacy in E-learning Systems in Higher Education
This Article Highlight features work by Britt Paris, Rebecca Reynolds, and Catherine McGowan published in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology.
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Featured Speaker for the University of Florida’s Series on “Fairness and Equity in AI for Education”
The College of Education’s Virtual Learning Lab at the University of Florida has just published its series of videos and podcasts addressing the theme of “fairness and equity in AI for education.”
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Special Issue Call for Papers: From Learning Analytics to Institutional Learning Ecosystems
With my exceptional co-editors, I invite you to consider submitting a piece or reviewing for this special issue of the Journal of Computing in Higher Education.
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New Editorial Forthcoming in the Journal portal Addressing Professional, Research, and Publication Ethics in Library Learning Analytics
Library learning analytics research continues to be published in academic library journals, often with problems related to ethical opacity. Along with my fellow editorial board members at portal: Libraries and the Academy, I see an opportunity to set new publication standards.
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Article Highlight: Learning Analytics in Higher Education: A Preponderance of Analytics but Very Little Learning?
This Article Highlight features work by Carolina Guzmán-Valenzuela, Carolina Gómez-González, Andrés Rojas-Murphy Tagle, and Alejandro Lorca-Vyhmeister published in the International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education.
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