Learning Analytics

27 April 2017 at 2:42pm

ICO request for feedback on profiling under the GDPR

Andrew Cormack
Data Protection Regulation
GDPRtopics
Learning Analytics
We've just responded to the ICO's request for feedback on Profiling under the General Data Protection Regulation.
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2017 - ICO Request for Feedback on Profiling

Andrew Cormack
Thursday, April 27, 2017 - 14:29
Learning Analytics
Data Protection Regulation
Profiling
This is Jisc's response to the ICO's request for feedback on Profiling under the General Data Protection Regulation. 1. When, how and why does your organisation carry out profiling? Do you agree that there has to be a predictive element, or some degree of inference for the processing to be considered profiling?
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19 April 2017 at 9:41am

Consent for Learning Analytics: Practical Guidelines

Andrew Cormack
Learning Analytics
Data Protection Act
Data Protection Regulation
GDPRtopics
Recently I've been doing some work with Niall Sclater on how education organisations might inform students about the use of learning analytics, and when they might seek students' consent. The resulting blog post is at https://analytics.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2017/02/16/consent-for-learning-analytics-some-practical-guidance-for-institutions/
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19 April 2017 at 9:44am

Learning Analytics - an updated model

Andrew Cormack
Learning Analytics
Data Protection Act
Privacy
GDPRtopics
At Jisc's Learning Analytics Network meeting last month I presented an updated version of my suggested legal model for Learning Analytics.
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UK Learning Analytics Network

Andrew Cormack
30 September 2016 at 11:31am
Learning Analytics
I'll be talking about legal issues of Learning Analytics and the General Data Protection Regulation
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28 April 2016 at 7:29am

A data protection model for production learning analytics

Andrew Cormack
Learning Analytics
Data Protection Directive
Privacy
#laepanalytics
[UPDATE: the full paper describing this approach has now been published in the Journal of Learning Analytics] [based on Doug Clow’s liveblog of the talk I did at the LAEP workshop in Amsterdam]
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20 November 2015 at 8:38am

Doing the Right Thing with Digital Students

Andrew Cormack
Learning Analytics
Privacy
[roughly what I said in a presentation yesterday to the Northern Universities’ Consortium] I’ve been a full or part-time student for more than thirty years. It's interesting to reflect on how my student record has changed over that time.
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15 July 2015 at 10:29am

A Data Protection Framework for Learning Analytics

Andrew Cormack
Learning Analytics
data protection
Since becoming involved in Jisc's work on learning analytics, I've been trying to work out the best place to fit the use of students' digital data to improve education into data protection law. I've now written up those thoughts as a paper, and submitted it to the Journal of Learning Analytics. As the abstract says:
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9 June 2015 at 2:45pm

Big Data: Wrongs and Rights

Andrew Cormack
Learning Analytics
data protection
Last week I gave a seminar at Southampton University on how data protection law could provide support and guidance for universities' use of learning analytics. The next day Jisc launched a Code of Practice on Learning Analytics, which puts many of the same ideas into practical form.
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18 May 2015 at 11:12am

Learning Analytics: OECD and EU

Andrew Cormack
Learning Analytics
A recent conference on student data included perspectives on learning analytics from the OECD and the European Commission.
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