A recent library learning analytics project highlights the wide—if not widening—gap between advocates of the technology and those concerned that the value of student privacy isn’t being fully attended to. The project argues that privacy “hinges” on confidentiality. In this brief post, I will succinctly argue why confidentiality is not privacy, but privacy may include confidentiality.
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Dr. Kyle M. L. Jones is an assistant 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.
New Conference Preprint: Reframing Student Privacy as a Common Value and Responsibility
Along with Tyler Dell, my very excellent co-author and research assistant, I’m excited to release a working paper to be presented at the upcoming annual Learning Analytics and Knowledge conference during the “Responsible Learning Analytics: Creating just, ethical, and caring LA systems” workshop.
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Article Highlight: Big Tech Makes Big Data out of Your Child: The FERPA Loophole EdTech Exploits to Monetize Student Data
This Article Highlight features work by Amy Rhoades published in the American University Business Law Review.
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Developing Reading List on Institutional Policies and Statements on Learning Analytics
Institutional policies and statements on learning analytics have been emerging over the last couple of years. A newly published reading list attempts to aggregate these resources in one location.
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JASIST Paper on Information Fiduciaries and Learning Analytics Gets Honorable Mention
Congratulations to my co-authors, Alan Rubel and Ellen LeClere, for an honorable mention for our forthcoming paper in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology.
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ALISE Annual Paper Wins Best Of Award
I’m proud to announce that my work with Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe was just announced as the winner of the “ALISE Best Conference Paper Award” for the upcoming annual conference.
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Consider Submitting to the HICSS Learning Analytics Minitrack
Looking for options for that next learning analytics piece? Consider the 54th iteration of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) and the learning analytics minitrack.
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Article Wins “portal: Libraries and the Academy” 2020 Johns Hopkins University Press Award for Best Article
It’s an honor to share that my piece in portal has been awarded best article of the year for the journal!
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Forthcoming Article in Information and Learning Sciences
I’m pleased to announce a forthcoming article in Information and Learning Sciences‘ special issue on “Evidence-based and Pragmatic Online Teaching and Learning Approaches.”
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