French HUBBLE project experience on Ethics in Learning Analytics

Christophe Reffay (1) , Madeth May (2) , Alain Mille (3)

1 ELLIADD - Edition, Littératures, Langages, Informatique, Arts, Didactique, Discours - UFC (UR 4661)
2 LIUM - Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Université du Mans
3 TWEAK - Traces, Web, Education, Adaptation, Knowledge

This paper discusses a research effort on ethical aspects of the French HUBBLE project that brings together research teams from different areas, including Computer and Human Sciences. Nine cases that make use of e-learning traces are currently running in this project. Seven case studies' team completed a questionnaire focused on ethics perspectives. The answers of this questionnaire are being reviewed by the authors as the responsible persons in charge of the Ethics work package of the HUBBLE project. By placing a special focus on the process designed to handle ethical concerns, and tracking ethics errors in concrete case studies, this paper presents our attempt in making sure that ethics is being fairly treated by the researchers and by other partners of the project.

Keywords: Ethics; Learning Analytics; HUBBLE; tracking data; traces

Domains: Education

Christophe Reffay, Madeth May, Alain Mille. French HUBBLE project experience on Ethics in Learning Analytics. Workshop Ethics and Privacy for Learning Analytics in European Conference on Technology Enhance Learning (EC-TEL 2017), Sep 2017, Tallinn, Estonia. ⟨edutice-01633343⟩