Jisc is delighted to have been selected by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) as one of the first ten projects to participate in the beta phase of its Sandbox.
Today, Web Analytics (WA) is commonly used to obtain key information about users and their behavior on websites. Besides, with the rise of online learning, Learning Analytics (LA) emerged as a separate research field for collecting and analyzing learners’ interactions on online learning platforms.
The rise of analytics in higher education raises questions about the responsible use of student data. Here are some of the issues and how institutions are dealing with them.
At the University of Saskatchewan, our approach is to gather information about our students’ academic performance as well as demographic and activity data that could pertain to learning success.
As data scientists and business leaders, we need to think about the ethical and privacy considerations of machine learning and artificial intelligence. FICO's Scott Zoldi shares recommendations around responsible AI, ethics, and privacy during this important conversation.
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