Harvard and MIT Researchers Reflect on the Perils and Promise of Open Data in MOOCs | HarvardX

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-08-18

Summary:

"A follow-up study led by a joint team of Harvard and MIT researchers explores the promise and perils of de-identifying learner data from MOOCs (massive open online courses) and offers recommendations of how to balance privacy with open data.  The dataset (made available in May) contains the original learning data from the 16 HarvardX and MITx courses offered in 2012-13 that formed the basis of the first HarvardX and MITx working papers (released in January) and underpin a suite of powerful open-source interactive visualization tools (released in February). Led by John P. Daries, Senior Research Analyst at MIT (Institutional Research/Office of the Provost), the new report takes a deep dive into the team's motivations behind efforts to release learner data, the contemporary regulatory framework of student privacy, and their efforts to comply with those regulations in creating an open data set from MOOCs, and some analytical consequences of de-identification ..."

Link:

http://harvardx.harvard.edu/news/harvard-and-mit-researchers-reflects-perils-and-promise-open-data-moocs

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.moocs oa.privacy oa.students oa.data oa.harvard.u oa.mit oa.edx oa.studies oa.courseware

Date tagged:

08/18/2014, 14:49

Date published:

08/18/2014, 10:49