[Libs-Or] Free continuing education opportunity: Privacy and Learning Analytics: A Data Ethics Workshop for Library Professionals

[Franny Gaede]

Join Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe<https://ischool.illinois.edu/people/lisa-janicke-hinchliffe>, Professor & Coordinator for Research and Teaching Professional Development, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign & PI, Prioritizing Privacy, to participate in this continuing education opportunity.

Privacy and Learning Analytics: A Data Ethics Workshop for Library Professionals
MAY 8, 2023, 9 AM  - 12 PM
DREAM LAB<https://map.uoregon.edu/39134cf2a>, KNIGHT LIBRARY<https://goo.gl/maps/43zDN811ACiwPSKX7>

25 person max enrollment, all interested library personnel welcome. RSVP here.<https://forms.microsoft.com/r/zRYKbEjZ02><https://forms.office.com/r/SJMwukuzWS>

Learn to:

  *   Analyze learning analytics and the ways in which they may create privacy harms.
  *   Adjust a learning analytics practice to strategically minimize privacy harms and maximize specific benefits.
  *   Advocate for privacy protections in learning analytics policies and practices.

Higher education institutions are facing significant accountability pressures to prove that their efforts produce valuable results and their resource expenditures are justifiable. In addition to traditional business intelligence strategies, colleges and universities have adopted learning analytics methods to investigate issues of student learning and success. Learning analytics are the “measurement, collection, analysis, and reporting of [student and other data] for the purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it occurs” (Siemens, 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2330601.2330605). Learning analytics have helped institutions optimize advising, predict student retention, and increase student engagement. Feeling the same pressures as their institutions, as well as the desire to contribute to student learning and success, academic libraries have begun to participate in learning analytics practices.

Nonetheless, regardless of the benefits that could accrue, learning analytics unquestionably presents challenges to student privacy, thus straining the professional ethics commitments that librarians make to uphold user confidentiality, respect privacy in information seeking and use, and support intellectual freedom. Librarians may feel a desire to refrain from engaging with campus learning analytics projects, meaning that librarian values around privacy and confidentiality are missing from campus conversations. This workshop seeks to overcome this hesitancy by providing training about privacy and other related ethical issues associated with learning analytics through structured, reflective activities that enable participants to plan for proactive engagement with campus learning analytics work and contribute to the development of privacy protections in learning analytics.

This workshop is an offering of Prioritizing Privacy, a multi-faceted continuing education program to train academic library practitioners to comprehensively address privacy and other related ethical implications of learning analytics projects. Prioritizing Privacy is supported by an IMLS National Leadership Grant. Additional information is available on the project website (https://prioritizingprivacy.org/).

Please feel free to address any questions to Franny Gaede; RSVP here<https://forms.microsoft.com/r/zRYKbEjZ02> and share with any interested colleagues. Thank you!



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Franny Gaede (she / her) [cid:5d51aecb-fe8c-4456-8c86-3067dd659933] <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4482-8577>

Director, Digital Scholarship Services

University of Oregon Libraries


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mfgaede at uoregon.edu

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541-346-1854

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143 Knight Library<https://map.uoregon.edu/732496fe6>

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I will direct students who are not minors and who report prohibited discrimination, including sexual harassment and violence to me to resources to help them and will report to the Office of Investigations and Civil Rights Compliance only when requested by the student (unless someone is in imminent risk of serious harm).

Land acknowledgement: The University of Oregon is located on Kalapuya Ilihi, the traditional indigenous homeland of the Kalapuya people. Following treaties between 1851 and 1855, Kalapuya people were dispossessed of their indigenous homeland by the United States government and forcibly removed to the Coast Reservation in Western Oregon. Today, Kalapuya descendants are primarily citizens of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, and they continue to make important contributions to their communities, to the UO, to Oregon, and to the world.

In following the Indigenous protocol of acknowledging the original people of the land we occupy, we also extend our respect to the nine federally recognized Indigenous Nations of Oregon: the Burns Paiute Tribe, the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians, the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, the Coquille Indian Tribe, the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, and the Klamath Tribes. We express our respect to the many more tribes who have ancestral connections to this territory, as well as to all other displaced Indigenous peoples who call Oregon home. Hayu masi.
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