Willis et al. (2016) identify four common ethical issues in internal student data usage across three institutions¶

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q2 i? Analysis of three higher education institutions across three continents yielded four common ethical issues: invasive techniques, surveillance, questionable interventions, and storing and interpreting data for different purposes. → Gloria Natividad Beltrán del Río 2021

Evidence¶

Gloria Natividad Beltrán del Río 2021¶

Gloria Natividad Beltrán del Río. (2021). The importance of always bearing in mind students' privacy, consent, vulnerability, and agency issues. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-021-09954-x

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Editorial summary of Willis et al. (2016)'s cross-continental, cross-institutional analysis, which "summarized four common ethical issues" at "the ethical intersection of internal student data usage and application".

"The authors summarized four common ethical issues: (1) using the invasive techniques that could direct students to participate in other activities; (2) surveilling students' activities; (3) conducting questionable interventions; and (4) storing and interpreting data for different purposes"

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