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AAEEBL Digital Ethics Principles: version 3 Main Menu Principle Summaries and Table of Contents Review all thirteen principles' abstract summaries and navigate to different parts of the document. Introduction: How to Use This Document Support Institutions should provide appropriate support for students, educators, administrators, and staff who create ePortfolios. Promote Awareness Institutional administrators, staff, and educators are responsible for promoting awareness of digital ethics in ePortfolio making. Practice ePortfolio creators need opportunities to develop and practice the digital literacies necessary to create accessible and effective ePortfolios. Evaluating ePortfolios ePortfolio evaluation should consider process, inclusion, reflective practice, and alignment with the stated objectives of the context in which the ePortfolio was created. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Decolonization (DEIBD) Educators are aware of equity-related challenges and address learning needs related to each student’s identity, culture, and background as they create ePortfolios. Accessibility All ePortfolio platforms and pedagogy should be thoroughly vetted for accessibility according to the standards identified by one’s culture, government, or profession. Technology & Usability Technology must be equitably available, usable, and supported for all students, educators, and staff engaged in ePortfolio work. Data Responsibility ePortfolio creators should know where their content is stored, who has access to it, how it might be used without their knowledge, and how much control they have over it. Respect Author Rights and Re-use Permissions ePortfolio creators should understand and respect author rights, best practices for re-use, and representation. Visibility of Labor The labor required by students, educators, and administrators to create, develop, implement, support, and evaluate ePortfolios should be visible, sustainable, compensated where appropriate, and counted toward evaluation and advancement. Glossary of Key Terms Full List of Resources AAEEBL Digital Ethics Task Force Membership Digital Ethics Task Force membership Task Force Scholarship The Association for Authentic, Experiential, Evidence-Based Learning's Digital Ethics Task Force

Strategies for Applying the Data Responsibility Principle

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Prioritizing publication tools that balance the ePortfolio creator’s right to privacy and the platform’s sharing capabilities, such as privacy customization and password protection, and familiarizing creators with these options.
Identifying and explaining how institutions, platforms, and third-parties plan to collect and use portfolio data, whether or not creators can opt out of data collection, and how they will be informed of changes to their end user license agreement (EULA).
Advocating for platform provider agreements that allow eportfolio creators to opt out of data collection and clearly articulate data use and sharing, including if the platform goes out of business.
Reviewing the Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy, and other relevant documents of ePortfolio platforms and seeking relevant expert advice if you are uncertain of a platform's appropriateness for educational purposes.
Making the details of end user license agreements accessible to students, specifically data ownership, storage, sharing, and deletion options.
Being aware of and complying with global, federal, and state regulations regarding student data use and privacy, such as the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), and other applicable privacy standards.
Designing protocols for data collection, maintenance, storage, use, and deletion that protect student data.

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1. Strategies for Applying the Data Responsibility Principle
2. Data Responsibility, Scenario 1 When you are a first-year student, you are asked to provide a personal memoir in a public-facing ePortfolio in your composition course. You offer a narrative that is personally significant but has coming-of-age elements. Later, when you apply for a position as a high school educator, you realize that this story may no longer reflect the identity you would like to project online. You remove the public access from your portfolio, as the course for which you created it is long over. You do not delete it though, as you want to keep it as a record of your learning. When navigating the process of removing public permissions from your site, you have access to institutional resources that offer guidance. After you follow the directions in these resources, online search for content from this portfolio does not bring up any results.
3. Data Responsibility, Scenario 2 You are a program administrator and/or staff member who has been asked by your institution to start a campus-wide ePortfolio initiative as part of its Quality Enhancement Plan. Nobody at your institution regularly vets technologies intended for teaching and learning, and you have limited knowledge of ePortfolios and suitable platforms in general. When you gather a committee to consider different ePortfolio technologies, you make a list of priorities: students’ ability to edit and share their ePortfolios both as students and after they leave the institution, universal design practices for creators and viewers, privacy capabilities for authors, and minimal direct cost to students. However, the committee soon realizes it has thought very little about use of student data, which is a big concern.
4. Data Responsibility, Scenario 3 You are an undergraduate student. At the start of your studies, you are introduced to the idea of keeping a portfolio to document your learning and progress towards your institution’s graduation requirements. Your institution proposes a platform to use for this purpose. The Academic Technologies staff member who introduces the platform to all first-year students explains how to use this platform as well as how you can keep your reflections and content private unless you want to share them with specific people.
5. Data Responsibility, Scenario 4 You are the Director of a global online learning program that has recently decided to add an ePortfolio requirement. In researching digital ethics in the globalized world, you come across the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). The GDPR document guides data regulations across the European Union (EU), and you believe there is a high probability that students from the EU will be enrolling in your program.
6. Data Responsibility, Resources