From the course: The Data Science of Educational Management and Policy, with Barton Poulson

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Ethical challenges in educational data

Ethical challenges in educational data

From the course: The Data Science of Educational Management and Policy, with Barton Poulson

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Ethical challenges in educational data

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- [Instructor] Data science brings a lot of exciting possibilities in educational research as elsewhere, but it also has some major ethical challenges that need to be confronted with a clear mind and a deliberate intent. There are three major challenges to data science in education, and truthfully, these are variations on the same challenges that data science has anywhere. They are privacy, the potential for bias, and issues of transparency, and I'll talk about each of these in turn. First off, privacy is the best known and really a perpetual challenge in any tech related field that deals with data. Of course, anybody who's out in the world knows that major tech companies really are plagued by privacy problems. A lot of these are self-created. They share their data inappropriately, or they do things with the data that people would not approve of. So, these are in issues of policies within the organizations that create difficult situations with privacy. Also, any large dataset is going…

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