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AAEEBL Digital Ethics Principles: version 1

Principle 11, Scenario 4

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. There is nobody at your institution who 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.

As a committee, you develop a series of criteria related to student data and privacy and their acceptable options. These criteria will help eliminate some potential ePortfolio platforms. These questions include the following:

Does the platform collect identifiable or de-identified personal information?
Where is data stored, and how is this data protected?
Does the platform sell this data to third parties?
Is user data collected/used/shared for non-authorized purposes?
Can the user remove their data, and what is the process by which they do that?
How does the platform inform users of changes to their EULA?
Are vendors held to equitable standards for privacy and data collection/storage?

If students choose their own platforms for ePortfolio creation, you provide resources that inform them about potential platforms and how each platform collects, uses, and stores user data.

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Contents of this tag:
1. Principle 7, Scenario 3
2. Principle 1, Scenario 3
3. Principle 6, Scenario 3
4. 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.
5. Principle 11, Scenario 4
6. Principle 2, Scenario 3
7. Principle 2, Scenario 4