Privacy and Learning Analytics: Considerations in Assessment Skills, Knowledge, and Values for Prioritizing Privacy in Library Learning Analytics

Libraries are increasingly engaging with learning analytics as part of their assessment and program evaluation practices. This pre-conference workshop will guide participants in exploring privacy and related ethical principles and how they can enact practices that prioritize these ethical considerations in the context of institutional priorities and professional practice.

Learning Outcomes

As a result of this workshop, participants will be prepared to:

• Describe the social, political, and technological elements of learning analytics in higher education, generally, and academic libraries, specifically.
• Plan for ethical and evidence-based library learning analytics projects that are based in privacy by design.
• Develop a learning plan for continuing professional development regarding learning analytics, information privacy, and ethical practice.

Prioritizing Privacy is funded by an IMLS National Leadership Grant and more information is available on the project website  (https://prioritizingprivacy.org/).

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe is Professor/Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction in the University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also an affiliate faculty member in the University’s School of Information Sciences and the Center for Global Studies. She served as the 2010-2011 President of the Association of College and Research Libraries, which launched the Value of Academic Libraries Initiative during her presidency. Lisa has presented and published widely on information literacy, teaching and learning, the value of libraries, library assessment, program evaluation, organizational innovation, scholarly communications, and privacy. Lisa received her Master of Education in Educational Psychology and Master of Library and Information Science degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota.

We have a limited number of spaces available for this pre-conference. Please do not register unless you plan to attend in-person.

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