Communication

Organisations should be open when collecting information. Make sure that the person will not be surprised about how that information is used later on, or whom it will be given to.

Consent is difficult for an enrolling student to understand and what real consent looks like is largely dependent on wording of your Privacy notice. Students are at risk of being involved in learning analytics without their consent, or having given uninformed consent.

Remember that individual human lives are behind the data, and that all data activities must comply with the ethics policy principles. 

Make use of these templates:

• Privacy notice (DOCX 32 KB)
• Frequently asked questions (FAQs) 
• Consent forms (DOCX 27 KB)
• Data analytics ethics policy (DOCX 31 KB)
• Data analytics ethics procedure (DOCX 38 KB)