Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path

Digital Media + Learning: The Power of Participation

I want to take a moment to examine how data collection has changed for us who teach and assess students.

In the digitally augmented classroom, there should be concern for both corporate privacy and interpersonal privacy. While we have limited control over the corporate tracking and data-collection that takes place, it is possible to allow varying levels of interpersonal privacy in the digital classroom. To make participation highly visible, down to seeing who contributed what line in a paper or slide in a slideshow, brings in echos of the dreaded panopticon.

Data collection is increasingly a part of life these days - online learning is no exception. What can we expect from learning analytics in higher education?