Ethics and Privacy in Learning Analytics

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Ethics and Privacy inLearning Analytics

University Analytics ForumMelbourne, 27 September 2013

Dr Abelardo Pardo (@abelardopardo)slideshare.net/abelardo_pardo

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Delicate issue!

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Prevents reaching a practical solution

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Environment Contextintegrity

Scenarios

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Environment

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Ethics: set of rules that define thecorrectness of a specified behavior

Privacy: how personal digitalinformation is being observed bythe self or distributed to otherobservers

They are usingyour device

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Observe in and out of the classroom

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Environment Contextintegrity

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Internet requires a new approach to privacy

Before: Limitingsurveillance, restrictingaccess to information,curtailing intrusions intoprivate space

Additionally: How is datacaptured, who owns it, howis it shared?

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People act in different roles and contexts

Applications should respect these contexts

Context integrity: framework to provideguidance to solve privacy related conflicts

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Appropriateness and distribution

(Nissenbaum, H., 2004, Privacy as Contextual Integrity, Washington Law Review, 79(1))

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Appropriateness

What is collected?

What is revealed?

Valid in one context,invalid in another

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Distribution

Who sees the data?

When?

For what purpose?

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Privacy asa currency

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Environment Contextintegrity

Scenarios

Case 1: University Blended Course

1 Data collected in LMS and mobile app

2 Available to instructors for personalization

3 Some data considered for assessment

4 Available to other university units:counseling, recruiting, marketing

5 Analyzed retention vs demographic

6 eTextbook data available to publishers

7 Kept for ever

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Case 2: Online Course1 Data collected in LMS

2 Available to instructors for personalizationpurposes

3 Analyzed performance vs demographic

4 Some data considered for assessment

5 Data used in scientific publication

6 Data made available to funding institutions

7 Students have the right to request dataremoval

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Ethical Principles

• LA as a moral practice

• Students as agents at the center

• Data is temporal and dynamic

• Student success is complex andmultidimensional

• Transparency

• Institutions obliged to use data

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(Slade, S., Prinsloo, P. 2013, Learning Analytics: Ethical Issues and Dilemmas, American Behavioral Scientist)

Practical Principles

1 Transparency

2 Students as data owners

3 Data access policies

4 Accountability and assessment

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Transparency• Means to achieve legitimacy

• Applied across the board

• Accessible and clearly explained policies

• How is data collected?

• Who has access to the data?

• Which processes are in place?

• How long is the data valid and available?

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Students as DataOwners

• Right to access, amend,delete data

• Institutions areborrowing the data

• In conflict with deriveddata

• Affects systems design

• Fixed life span ofcollected data

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• Clarify the roles whenaccessing data

• Extend to derived data

• Consider connectionwith research

• Beware ofanonymization ordeidentification

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Data AccessPolicies

Accountability andAssessment

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• Process continuouslyunder improvement

• Consider allstakeholders

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Privacy changed in Internet era

Integrity of the learning context

Appropriateness and distribution, perceived value

Implementation principles:TransparencyStudents own dataData access policiesAccountability and assessment

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Ethics and Privacy inLearning Analytics

University Analytics ForumMelbourne, 27 September 2013

Dr Abelardo Pardo (@abelardopardo)slideshare.net/abelardo_pardo