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Team four, which consists of Dino Hatzigeorgiou, Jessica Brown and Theresa McLeod-Treadwell, will be facilitating a week long learning seminar on the legal, ethical and pedagogical issues relating to the collection and use of student data. Our final facilitation plan for the week of October 13 – 19th is below.
From engaging in this seminar on the legal, ethical, and pedagogical issues relating to the collection and use of student data, learners will be able to:
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- identify some tensions that constitute problems that are arising from the collection of student data, and
- utilize best practices for ethical data collection to create a set of principles that can be used in their individual contexts.
The readings for this seminar are:
Required reading:
Kurzweil, M., Stevens, M., & Mccracken, S. (2018). Setting the Table: Responsible Use of Student Data in Higher Education. Educause, 17–24. Retrieved from https://er.educause.edu/~/media/files/articles/2018/5/er183101.pdf
Optional reading:
Slade, S., & Prinsloo, P. (2013). Learning Analytics: Ethical Issues and Dilemmas. American Behavioral Scientist, 57(10), 1510–1529. https://journals-sagepub-com.ezproxy.royalroads.ca/doi/pdf/10.1177/0002764213479366
In the learning activity, learners will, based on their individual contexts, create a set of principles for the ethical collection and use of student data and post in their individual blogs. Learners will then be asked to post a link to their blog in Mattermost and engage in class discussion.
The technologies that will be used are:
- Moodle class forum for access to the schedule, readings and activity parameters.
- Individual Student Blog on WordPress for the posting of their activity.
- Mattermost for class discussion.
In an effort to minimize the number of different or new platforms, we have decided on these particular technologies because students are already familiar with and currently engaged in the technologies chosen for this seminar.
Given that the week of the seminar begins with Thanksgiving, and that this is the last activity before learners are engaged in their final reflection, we have endeavored to fit the activities within a condensed schedule. We anticipate that the week will flow with the class having read the materials by Tuesday, October 15th and the class discussion in Mattermost beginning Wednesday, October, 16th. Brown, J., will share a case scenario for debate as a way to spark discussion with a second scenario ready to be shared if needed. Participants in the discussion on Mattermost will be encouraged to share case scenarios of their own. Learners are anticipated to share a posting on their individual blogs by Thursday, October 17th. Prompting questions will be derived from the contents of their bogs and added to the discussion in Mattermost. McLeod-Treadwell, T., will ask probing questions based on the discussion contents. Hatzigeorgiou, D., will wrap up the discussion and the week by summarizing the blog posts with identification of themes and correlations by Saturday, October, 19th.
We plan to communicate with our learners through the class forum in Moodle, through email and through class discussion in Mattermost.
We plan on establishing a Community of Inquiry by creating a:
- Teaching presence – through the delivery of the schedule for the week, delivery of content, facilitation of discussion, and assignment of learning activity.
- Social Presence – through class discussion in Mattermost,
- Cognitive Presence – through the Blog post activity where learners will be asked to apply the readings to their context through the creation of ethics-based principles
The end of the week and wrap of activities will consist of summaries of discussion points that occurred in Mattermost, summaries of identified themes from the learners’ blog posts and any correlations that can be reasonably made.
We look forward to working through the legal, ethical and pedagogical issues relating to the collection and use of student data with you in October.
References:
Dunlap, J. C., & Lowenthal, P. R. (2018). Online educators’ recommendations for teaching online: Crowdsourcing in action. Open Praxis, 10(1), 79. https://doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.10.1.721
Vaughan, N. D., Cleveland-innes, M., & Garrison, D. R. (n.d.). Athabasca University Press – Teaching in Blended Learning Environments: Creating and Sustaining Communities of Inquiry. Retrieved from http://www.aupress.ca/index.php/books/120229
September 13, 2019 at 9:39 am
Great work, team Student Data. I am very happy that someone picked this topic as it is one of my own personal favorites :).
Your draft facilitation plan looks solid. Well defined learning objectives, the reading looks like a solid choice, your CoI presences are well defined, and your rationale for choice of technologies is sound. I like your primary activity where you have your learners using their blogs and are encouraging them to work in the open & share their emerging knowledge with their network.
Overall, a good plan for your compressed week.
For the final copy, I suggest fleshing out how you want that discussion to unfold. What will you do to create that initial spark in the discussion and then what kinds of prompting questions will you ask to move the discussion along (if needed). Also, will all three of you be involved with the discussion, or will one or two of you take the lead? I would also suggest adding some kind of defined wrap-up for the week. How will you finish things off with the learners and summarize the learning?