Motivation
Capitalizing on past workshops on human-centered design, ethics, and learning analytics, we organize this workshop for the following several reasons:
Designing for responsible LA is directly associated with the sustainability of future educational paths (and tools) that undertake a responsible human-centered LA approach, thus facilitating the process of an ethical digital transformation of education.
There is a need to build upon relevant HCI knowledge on practicing participatory design approaches so LA researchers and practitioners can effectively adopt and adapt when designing LA tools involving privacy-by-design mechanisms.
We want to contribute to the partial achievement of one of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals aiming to provide inclusive and equitable quality education, in which protection of learners’ privacy is both a moral and legal obligation.
We acknowledge the central role to design by taking seriously the LA stakeholders’ rights to privacy in online learning settings which in turn offer better conditions for safe, sustainable, and adaptive educational solutions.
This workshop has the following goals:
to introduce the workshop’s participants to selected participatory design approaches for Responsible Learning Analytics design
to practice design fiction methods to inform human-centered design approaches to LA
to raise awareness of potential moral and legal consequences of not accounting for the stakeholders’ ethical and privacy concerns and preferences when designing and implementing LA systems.
to facilitate a space for collaboration and professional networking.
Expected outcomes:
the participants’ use of design fiction methods to inform the design process of responsible LA tools
a set of privacy-by-design implications aimed at protecting and enabling (chosen) stakeholders’ agency in online learning settings
a set of design fictions crafted by the participants to discuss ethical and privacy considerations.