New Vistas on Responsible Learning Analytics
Teresa Cerratto Pargman, Cormac McGrath, Olga Viberg, Simon Knight
Abstract
The focus of ethics in learning analytics (LA) frameworks and guidelines is predominantly on procedural elements of data management and accountability. Another, less represented focus is on the duty to act and LA as a moral practice. Data feminism as a critical theoretical approach to data science practices may offer LA research and practitioners a valuable lens through which to consider LA as a moral practice. This paper examines what data feminism can offer the LA community. It identifies critical questions for further developing and enabling a responsible stance in LA research and practice taking one particular case — algorithmic decision-making — as a point of departure.
Topics & Concepts
Learning analyticsAccountabilityFeminismAnalyticsEngineering ethicsFocus (optics)SociologyDutyComputer scienceData scienceEpistemologyPolitical scienceEngineeringPhilosophyLawGender studiesPhysicsOpticsOnline Learning and AnalyticsEthics and Social Impacts of AIExplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)