This is the first week for this course, and I found lots of interesting material. The most attractive reading for me is about privacy when students having online courses. This is an up-to-date problem. After COVID-19 pandemic, more and more educational institution turned into online delivering mode. So, online data privacy has become a decent questions for both instituion and student.

In this reading, author summarys six questions that students may face: information privacy; anonymity; surveillance; autonomy; non-discrimination; and ownership of information. I am perfectly agree with these aspects. Once students having a online exam or test, some professors may required them to download anti-cheating software. These softwares may expose students privacy.

what I disagree with, is that educational institution can expose students’ name or birth date. This is definately a privacy. So, I would say there should be a regulation or rules to restrict these software and institution.

What I want to learn more is: Are grading system really fair? Although grading system is reflecting students’ work, and it is convinient for instructor to grade students. But is it really fair to grade a student just by ABCD? I would say some of the students may have a strenghth in some part of the course. As I am a economic students, there are lots of subject in economic. So, once a student do a great job in one of the part in one subject, but doing not satisfied in one area. These grading system would not reflect the real ability for this students. I am thinking about a system, the instructor can divide the course material into different section and instructor can give comment for specific area. But it is too heavy for the instructor.

References:

Regan, P., & Jesse, J. (2019). Ethical challenges of edtech, big data and personalized learning: Twenty-first century student sorting and tracking. Ethics and Information Technology, 21(3), 167-179. DOI: 10.1007/s10676-018-9492-2

Vaughan, N. D., Garrison, D. R., & Cleveland-Innes, M. (2013). Teaching in blended learning environments: Creating and sustaining communities of inquiry. AU Press