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Jones, Kyle M. L.; Goben, Abigail; Perry, Michael R.; Regalado, Mariana; Salo, Dorothea; Asher, Andrew D.; Smale, Maura A.; Briney, Kristin A. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2023
Higher education data mining and analytics, like learning analytics, may improve learning experiences and outcomes. However, such practices are rife with student privacy concerns and other ethics issues. It is crucial that student privacy expectations and preferences are considered in the design of educational data analytics. This study forefronts…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Data Collection, Learning Analytics
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Abukari Kwame; Pammla M. Petrucka – Journal of Academic Ethics, 2024
Gaining ethical approval for qualitative health research and implementing all the planned research processes in a proposed study are not straightforward endeavours. The situation becomes more complex when qualitative research is conducted in a cross-national healthcare and academic context. Also, it is even exhausting when the study is…
Descriptors: Ethics, Doctoral Students, Student Research, Informed Consent
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Atenas, Javiera; Havemann, Leo; Timmermann, Cristian – International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2023
This paper presents an ethical framework designed to support the development of critical data literacy for research methods courses and data training programmes in higher education. The framework we present draws upon our reviews of literature, course syllabi and existing frameworks on data ethics. For this research we reviewed 250 research…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Data Analysis, Ethics, Research Methodology
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Jones, Kyle M. L.; Briney, Kristin A.; Goben, Abigail; Salo, Dorothea; Asher, Andrew; Perry, Michael R. – College & Research Libraries, 2020
Universities are pursuing learning analytics practices to improve returns from their investments, develop behavioral and academic interventions to improve student success, and address political and financial pressures. Academic libraries are additionally undertaking learning analytics to demonstrate value to stakeholders, assess learning gains…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Learning Analytics, Privacy, Ethics
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Mahoney, Jamie; Le Louvier, Kahina; Lawson, Shaun; Bertel, Diotima; Ambrosetti, Elena – Research Ethics, 2022
The ubiquitous use of social platforms across the globe makes them attractive options for investigating social phenomena including migration. However, the use of social media data raises several crucial ethical issues around the areas of informed consent, anonymity and profiling of individuals, which are particularly sensitive when looking at a…
Descriptors: Social Media, Ethics, Informed Consent, Research Methodology
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Sherwood, Gina; Parsons, Sarah – Research Ethics, 2021
The real-world navigation of ethics-in-practice versus the bureaucracy of institutional ethics remains challenging. This is especially true for research with children and young people who may be considered vulnerable by the policies and procedures of ethics committees but agentic by researchers. Greater transparency is needed about how this…
Descriptors: Informed Consent, Children, Adolescents, Social Science Research
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Syed, Hassan; Syed, Ghazal Kazim – Research in Education, 2021
This paper reports on the challenges faced by two researchers during data collection and translation of data and analysis in two public sector universities in Pakistan. Data collection from each institute involved different procedures and a different set of issues, including negotiating access with gatekeepers and participants, dealing with…
Descriptors: Novices, Researchers, Qualitative Research, Research Administration
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Beardsley, Marc; Martínez Moreno, Judit; Vujovic, Milica; Santos, Patricia; Hernández-Leo, Davinia – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
Advances in the field of multimodal learning analytics (MMLA) research is often accomplished by actively exploring new technologies and techniques related to the collection and analysis of data. Exploration of ethical principles and procedures for governing the use of new technologies and techniques, however, is not as readily pursued. As…
Descriptors: Records (Forms), Decision Making, Data Collection, Learning Analytics
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Hakimi, Laura; Eynon, Rebecca; Murphy, Victoria A. – Review of Educational Research, 2021
This article presents the findings of a systematic qualitative analysis of research in the ethics of digital trace data use in learning and education. From the resulting analysis of 77 peer-reviewed studies, we (1) map the characteristics of research by study type, academic community, institutional setting, and national context; (2) identify the…
Descriptors: Ethics, Data Use, Data Collection, Learning Analytics
British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2021
This report focuses on data governance at post-secondary institutions and related organizations. Data governance is defined as the formal execution and enforcement of authority over the management of data and data-related assets (Seiner, 2014). An overview of data governance at higher education institutions provides detail on elements of data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Data, Governance, Postsecondary Education
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West, Deborah; Luzeckyj, Ann; Toohey, Danny; Vanderlelie, Jessica; Searle, Bill – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2020
Increasingly learning analytics (LA) has begun utilising staff- and student-facing dashboards capturing visualisations to present data to support student success and improve learning and teaching. The use of LA is complex, multifaceted and raises many issues for consideration, including ethical and legal challenges, competing stakeholder views and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Administration, Ethics, Student Attitudes
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Sahin, Idris; Kesik, Fatma – New Waves-Educational Research and Development Journal, 2020
The main purpose of this qualitative study is to identify the lived experiences of academicians working in the field of educational administration in Turkey with regard to obtaining permission for scientific research in educational institutions and examine it within the context of academic freedom and ethics. A case-study approach was used to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Informed Consent, Data Collection, Academic Freedom
Grama, Joanna Lyn – Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2019
Our current federal postsecondary data system is incomplete and fails to provide today's students with the accurate, timely information that they need to inform their college choices and promote their success. As policymakers consider proposals to improve this federal data system, it is critical that they work in tandem to protect students'…
Descriptors: Privacy, Information Security, Postsecondary Education, Information Systems
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Power, Kerry – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2019
When conceptualising knowledge gained from tapping into an internet data pool, one may question many things which can include the role of the researcher and the researched, privacy and ethics, intention, authenticity and the vastness of scope. The researcher, regardless of research intention including moral or ethical positions, must acknowledge…
Descriptors: Ethics, Research Problems, Social Media, Researchers
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Gachago, Daniela; Livingston, Candice – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 2020
Background: Digital storytelling (DST) has been embraced in classrooms around the world as a way to unpack issues of identity and positionality which are critical for any pedagogy concerned with social justice. However, adopting this process-orientated practice into higher education raises ethical concerns especially in relation to the normative…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Computer Uses in Education, Social Justice, Ethics
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