Abstract
Universities are pursuing learning analytics practices to improve returns from their investments, develop behavioral and academic interventions to improve student suc-cess, and address political and financial pressures. Academic libraries are additionally undertaking learning analytics to demonstrate value to stakeholders, assess learning gains from instruction, and analyze student-library usage, et cetera. The adoption of these techniques leads to many professional ethics issues and practical concerns related to privacy. In this narrative literature review, we provide a foundational back-ground in the field of learning analytics, library adoption of these practices, and identify ethical and practical privacy issues.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 570-591 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | College and Research Libraries |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 2020 |
Funding
* Kyle M.L. Jones is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Library and Information Sciences at Indiana University-Indianapolis (IUPUI); email: [email protected]. Kristin A. Briney is Biology and Biological Engineering Librarian at California Institute of Technology; email: [email protected]. Abigail Goben is an Associate Professor and Information Services and Liaison Librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago; email: [email protected]. Dorothea Salo is a Distinguished Faculty Associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; email: salo@wisc. edu. Andrew Asher is Assessment Librarian and Associate Librarian, Planning and Administration, at Indiana University-Bloomington; email: [email protected]. Michael R. Perry is Head of Assessment and Planning at Northwestern University; email: [email protected]. This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (LG-96-18-0044-18). The views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this conference proceeding do not necessarily represent those of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The team would like to thank Aubree Tillett, a research assistant from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, for her support and Maura Smale and Mariana Regaldo for their input. ©2020 Kyle M.L. Jones, Kristin A. Briney, Abigail Goben, Dorothea Salo, Andrew Asher, and Michael R. Perry, Attribution-NonCommercial (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) CC BY-NC
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Library and Information Sciences
