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.
Category: Research

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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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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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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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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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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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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