Ethical Challenges for Learning Analytics
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https://doi.org/10.18608/jla.2019.63.5Keywords:
Consent, data ownership, data protection, duty, equality, ethics, goals, integrity, justice, principles, privacy, responsibility, safeguarding, success, valuesAbstract
This response to Neil Selwyn’s paper, ‘What’s the problem with learning analytics?’, relates his work to the ethical challenges associated with learning analytics and proposes six ethical challenges for the field.
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