TY - GEN
T1 - Developing a Professional Profile of a Digital Ethics Officer in an Educational Technology Unit in Higher Education
AU - Andrews, David
AU - Leitner, Philipp
AU - Schön, Sandra
AU - Ebner, Martin
N1 - Funding Information:
Contributions and development were partly delivered within the project “Learning Analytics: Effects of data analysis on learning success” (01/202012/2021) with TU Graz and University of Graz as partners and the Province of Styria as funding body (12. Zukunftsfonds Steiermark). We would also like to thank Armin Spök and Günter Getzinger from the Science, Technology and Society Unit at TU Graz for their helpful comments and feedback on our work.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The digitalisation of learning, teaching, and study processes has a major impact on possible evaluations and uses of data, for example with regard to individual learning recommendations, prognosis, or assessments. This also gives rise to ethical issues centered around digital teaching and possible challenges of data use. One possible approach to this challenge might be to install a Digital Ethics Officer (DEO), whose future profile this paper outlines for a Educational Technology unit of a Higher Education Institution (HEI). Therefore, an introductory overview of the tasks and roles of Ethics Officers (EO) is given based on the literature. The authors then describe the current ethics program of a university of technology and collect current and potential ethical issues from the field of educational technologies. Based on this, a first professional profile for a DEO at an educational technology unit of a university is described. From the authors’ point of view, the article thus prepares important considerations and steps for the future of this position.
AB - The digitalisation of learning, teaching, and study processes has a major impact on possible evaluations and uses of data, for example with regard to individual learning recommendations, prognosis, or assessments. This also gives rise to ethical issues centered around digital teaching and possible challenges of data use. One possible approach to this challenge might be to install a Digital Ethics Officer (DEO), whose future profile this paper outlines for a Educational Technology unit of a Higher Education Institution (HEI). Therefore, an introductory overview of the tasks and roles of Ethics Officers (EO) is given based on the literature. The authors then describe the current ethics program of a university of technology and collect current and potential ethical issues from the field of educational technologies. Based on this, a first professional profile for a DEO at an educational technology unit of a university is described. From the authors’ point of view, the article thus prepares important considerations and steps for the future of this position.
KW - Digital ethics officer
KW - Educational technology
KW - Higher education
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85133278138&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-05657-4_12
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-05657-4_12
M3 - Conference paper
AN - SCOPUS:85133278138
SN - 978-3-031-05656-7
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 157
EP - 175
BT - Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Designing the Learner and Teacher Experience - 9th International Conference, LCT 2022, Held as Part of the 24th HCI International Conference, HCII 2022, Proceedings
A2 - Zaphiris, Panayiotis
A2 - Ioannou, Andri
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
CY - Cham
T2 - 9th International Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies
Y2 - 26 June 2022 through 1 July 2022
ER -
