E-learn Weblog of Willem van Valkenburg

ICDE published an interesting guide on ethics in learning analytics. The guide is written by Sharon Slade and Alan Tait. The report proposes a number of core issues that are important for the use and development of Learning Analytics in ethics-informed ways:

• Transparency
• Data ownership and control
• Accessibility of data
• Validity and reliability of data
• Institutional responsibility and obligation to act
• Communications
• Cultural values
• Inclusion
• Consent
• Student agency and responsibility

These issued need to be further discussed and adopted to the local context. I think the guide helps to address the ethics issues related to learning analytics. We need to address these to make learning analytics a success within education. Many of the issues we have addressed in the TU Delft Learning Analytics Policy Framework.

Download the guide