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AAEEBL Digital Ethics Principles: version 1 Main Menu Principle Summaries and Table of Contents Review all ten principles' abstract summaries and navigate to different parts of the document. Introduction: How to Use This Document Principle 1: Support Institutions should provide appropriate support for students, educators, administrators, and staff who create ePortfolios. Principle 2: Promote Awareness Institutional administrators, staff, and educators are responsible for promoting awareness of digital ethics in ePortfolio making. Principle 3: Practice ePortfolio creators need opportunities to develop and practice the digital literacies necessary to create accessible and effective ePortfolios. Principle 4: Respect Author Rights and Re-use Permissions ePortfolio creators should understand and respect author rights, best practices for re-use, and representation. Technology & Usability Technology must be equitably available, usable, and supported for all students, educators, and staff engaged in ePortfolio work. Principle 6: Privacy ePortfolio creators should have ultimate control over public access to their portfolios and the ability to change the privacy settings at any time. Principle 7: Content Storage ePortfolio creators should know where their content is stored, who has access, and how to remove it. Principle 8: Cross-Platform Compatibility ePortfolio creators should be able to make and view ePortfolios across any device, browser, and operating system with equitable ease of use across devices. Principle 9: Accessibility All ePortfolio platforms and pedagogy should be thoroughly vetted for accessibility according to the standards identified by one’s culture, government, or profession. Principle 10: Consent for Data Usage ePortfolio platform providers need consent to collect and store data from ePortfolio creators. Glossary of Key Terms Full List of Resources The Association for Authentic, Experiential, Evidence-Based Learning's Digital Ethics Task Force

Principle 1, Scenario 3

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You are a writing program administrator and/or staff member, and your dean has recently asked you to bring ePortfolio assessment into the composition program. You are excited at this possibility, as you have heard about ePortfolios at conferences and in academic journals in your field. However, when you ask about funding for this initiative, your dean says you will have to use your current budget. Your program is staffed mostly by part-time and non-tenure-track professionals who carry high teaching loads and already have limited access to professional development funds.

After taking a moment to process the situation, you explain to the dean that an ePortfolio requirement is an exciting, but sizable, commitment. You suggest reaching out to peer institutions that use ePortfolios to understand how much money they spend annually on staff, technology, professional development, assessment, curriculum development, etc. You also reach out to the disability advocates, technology experts, and the librarians on campus to assess the institution’s current resources to support this initiative, as commitment from them in particular would be beneficial. After research and discussion, you meet with the dean and explain the amount of funding and support you feel your program will need to have a successful and sustainable ePortfolio initiative.

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Principle 1: Support The Association for Authentic, Experiential, Evidence-Based Learning's Digital Ethics Task Force
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1. Strategies for Applying Principle 1: Support
2. Principle 1, Scenario 1 You are a student. You are excited to attend your first capstone course meeting for graduating students. On the first day, the educator explains that you will be creating an ePortfolio that will both document your learning from your coursework and showcase your professional experiences to employers and graduate schools in your field. She projects example ePortfolios from previous years and asks the class to analyze them in groups. You are new to ePortfolios and would like to participate in this well-planned first day activity, but you are blind and the educator has not considered how you can view the projected ePortfolios. When you ask about the platform’s ability to interface with screen readers, the educator replies nervously that she has not been asked to consider this before. You feel anxious about your ability to engage with the class and complete this capstone assignment. When designing ePortfolio assignments, it’s important to consider all students with diverse needs. Institutional experts in disability and accommodations for students with disabilities can help you vet platforms for accessibility, and digital resources can also help you test a site’s ability to interface with assistive technologies, such as a screen reader.
3. Principle 1, Scenario 2 You are a student. You are participating in a study abroad program and have been asked to contribute to a collective ePortfolio documenting your experiences in an online course that pairs with the abroad program. You have stretched yourself financially to be able to afford the trip abroad and take time off of work. You have never traveled outside of your home country before, so you are feeling anxious. You have little experience with online learning and ePortfolios.
4. Principle 1, Scenario 3
5. Principle 1, Resources

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Admin/Staff Scenarios The Association for Authentic, Experiential, Evidence-Based Learning's Digital Ethics Task Force
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1. Principle 7, Scenario 3
2. Principle 1, Scenario 3
3. Principle 11, Scenario 4
4. Principle 6, Scenario 3
5. Principle 11, Scenario 3 You are the ePortfolio Program Director and decided on the purchase of a particular ePortfolio platform that is the primary platform for your institution. You receive an email from your ePortfolio provider stating that the end user licensing agreement (EULA) will change in three months, the negotiated notice period for your institution. In preparing your response, you want to consider any changes to student data collection and storage. When you negotiated the contract with this provider, you were clear about your institution’s policies regarding student data collection and storage and required that the provider notify you via email of any changes and give you the right to terminate the contract if changes violated the institutional policy.
6. Principle 2, Scenario 3
7. Principle 2, Scenario 4
8. Principle 7, Scenario 4