Emerging LA-specific privacy conceptualizations: contextual integrity and intellectual privacy¶

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Description¶

Beyond the established categories, the review identifies two emerging, LA-relevant approaches. Contextual integrity associates privacy with information flows regulated by relative norms (context, actors, attributes, transmission principles); intellectual privacy protects "intellectual activities such as searching for information, writing, and thinking," and is seen as a condition for student autonomy. The authors present both as important dimensions for LA communities to consider, not as the only ways to define privacy in LA.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Recognition that these approaches are still emerging and complementary to, not replacements for, established definitions

Constraints¶

• Contextual integrity is not proposed as a full definition of privacy but as a framework for evaluating information flows between agents

Target Learners¶

• learning analytics researchers and practitioners
• students in LA-instrumented educational settings

Target Learning Objectives¶

• protecting student privacy and autonomy in learning analytics

Claims¶

• In a scoping review of 59 privacy-focused LA articles, 74% addressed privacy without defining or conceptualizing it [+W]

Related Theories¶

• Smith et al.'s value-based and cognate-based categorization of privacy definitions as an analytical lens for LA

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Olga Viberg, Chantal Mutimukwe, Åke Grönlund. (2022). Privacy in LA Research: Understanding the Field to Improve the Practice. Journal of Learning Analytics, 9(3), 169–182. https://doi.org/10.18608/jla.2022.7751