LAHEEP 2012 - International Workshop on Learning analytics and higher education: ethical perspectives

This half-day workshop will engage participants in an exploration of some of the ethical complexities introduced by using learning analytics to categorise and predict student cohorts and behaviours. Such concerns might include intrusion, disruption, privacy, confidentiality, consent and data protection.
Higher education (HE) institutions may hope that learning analytics will facilitate clearer and simpler means of understanding and driving student engagement and performance. It is clear, however, that generalisations may introduce additional risks which then determine and limit how HE institutions behave toward and react to the student ? both as individuals and as members of differing cohorts. What are the rights of the student to remain an individual? Should the student have an awareness of their own label?
A wide range of issues and consequences relating to the use of learning analytics will be explored from different stakeholder perspectives.
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