Who Owns Student Interaction Data: A Position Paper on Consent in Learning Analytics

Authors

  • Emese-Anna Csizmadia Centre for Education Data Governance, Duna-Tisza Institute of Learning Technologies, Cegled, Hungary Author
  • Helvi-Maria Ilomaki Centre for Education Data Governance, Ita-Lappi Centre for Digital Education, Kemijarvi, Finland Author
  • Davis-Martins Rudzite Centre for Student Partnership, Ogre Centre for Digital Education, Ogre, Latvia Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22681584

Keywords:

Who Owns Student Interaction Data; Educational technology; E-learning; Evidence synthesis; Research methodology

Abstract

Who Owns Student Interaction Data has moved quickly from a niche scientific question to something a wider community can now
investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull together the current
evidence for who owns student interaction data, covering the methodological, practical, regulatory and cost angles, with an eye on
where practice has genuinely settled and where researchers and reviewers are still largely working it out for themselves. Selective,
context-specific pursuit looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than either broad rollout or blanket avoidance

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Published

2022-06-24