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eLearning Latest Battleground in Privacy Wars, Says eLearn Magazine, Yahoo! Finance

Think your innermost thoughts, casual questions, test answers and insights are just between you and Your instructor? Think again. In today's technology-mediated learning environments, the data flowing between student and instructor may be funneled into database and analysis programs for use in ways that are unexpected by both students and faculty. Lisa Neal, a researcher and consultant in eLearning, has published an article, "Expectations of Privacy: Data Collected in Class Should Not be Misused" in eLearn Magazine (http://www.eLearnMag.org ) that address these issues. She points out that in the good old days, if you asked a question in class or took a test, the data existed, but it was relatively hard to compile in a database and make further use of. Neal notes that many technologies collect data that can be used in ways that benefit students and teachers, but can as easily be abused.

  posted by Ray at 9/30/2003 11:43:00 AM permanent item link   

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