Here is a list of academic references on the topic of higher education, privacy, data and surveillance. If you know of other references we should include here, please email jen.ross@ed.ac.uk.
Bali, M., Cronin, C., & Jhangiani, R. S. (2020). Framing Open Educational Practices from a Social Justice Perspective. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2020(1). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1254006
Brown, M., & Klein, C. (2020). Whose Data? Which Rights? Whose Power? A Policy Discourse Analysis of Student Privacy Policy Documents. The Journal of Higher Education, 0(0), 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221546.2020.1770045
Collier, A., & Ross, J. (2020). Higher Education After Surveillance? Postdigital Science and Education, 2(2), 275–279. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-019-00098-z
Collins, H. J., Glover, H., & Myers, F. (2020). Behind the digital curtain: A study of academic identities, liminalities and labour market adaptations for the ‘Uber-isation’ of HE. Teaching in Higher Education, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2019.1706163
Costa, C., Murphy, M., Pereira, A. L., & Taylor, Y. (2018). Higher education students’ experiences of digital learning and (dis)empowerment. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 34(3), 140–152.
Gilliard, C. (2017). Pedagogy and the Logic of Platforms. EDUCAUSE Review, July/August 2017. https://er.educause.edu/articles/2017/7/pedagogy-and-the-logic-of-platforms
Gregory, K., & singh, s. s. (2018). Anger in Academic Twitter: Sharing, Caring, and Getting Mad Online. TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 16(1), 176–193. https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v16i1.890
Hall, R. (2013). Educational technology and the enclosure of academic labour inside public higher education. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 11(3).
Hyslop-Margison, E., & Rochester, R. (2016). Assessment or Surveillance? Panopticism and Higher Education. Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 24(1), 102–109.
Ifenthaler, D., & Schumacher, C. (2016). Student perceptions of privacy principles for learning analytics. Educational Technology Research and Development, 64(5), 923–938. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-016-9477-y
Jones, K. M. L., & VanScoy, A. (2019). The syllabus as a student privacy document in an age of learning analytics. Journal of Documentation, 75(6), 1333–1355. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-12-2018-0202
Kayas, O. G., Assimakopoulos, C., & Hines, T. (2020). Student evaluations of teaching: Emerging surveillance and resistance. Studies in Higher Education, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2020.1725875
Knox, D. (2010). A Good Horse Runs at the Shadow of the Whip: Surveillance and Organizational Trust in Online Learning Environments. Canadian Journal of Media Studies, 7(1).
Kwet, M., & Prinsloo, P. (2020). The ‘smart’ classroom: A new frontier in the age of the smart university. Teaching in Higher Education, 25(4), 510–526. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2020.1734922
Land, R., & Bayne, S. (2002). Screen or Monitor? Surveillance and disciplinary power in online learning environments. In Improving Student Learning using Learning Technology (pp. 125–138). OCSLD.
Li, W., Sun, K., Schaub, F., & Brooks, C. (2020). Disparities in Students’ Propensity to Consent to Learning Analytics. https://doi.org/10.35542/osf.io/vnc9b
Lorenz, C. (2012). If You’re So Smart, Why Are You under Surveillance? Universities, Neoliberalism, and New Public Management. Critical Inquiry, 38(3), 599–629. https://doi.org/10.1086/664553
Macfarlane, B. (2013). The Surveillance of Learning: A Critical Analysis of University Attendance Policies: The Surveillance of Learning. Higher Education Quarterly, 67(4), 358–373. https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.12016
Macfarlane, B. (2014). Student performativity in higher education: Converting learning as a private space into a public performance. Higher Education Research & Development, 34(2), 338–350.
Maistry, S. (2015). Accountability and surveillance: New mechanisms of control in higher education. Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa, 88(1), 25–35. https://doi.org/10.1353/trn.2015.0018
Melgaço, L. (2015). Multiple Surveillance on the Digitized Campus. Radical Pedagogy, 12(1), 1524–6345.
Morris, S. M., & Stommel, J. (2017). A Guide for Resisting Edtech: The Case against Turnitin. Hybrid Pedagogy. https://hybridpedagogy.org/resisting-edtech/
O’Leary, M. (2013). Surveillance, performativity and normalised practice: The use and impact of graded lesson observations in Further Education colleges. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 37(5), 694–714. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2012.684036
Picciano, A. (2014). Big Data and Learning Analytics in Blended Learning Environments: Benefits and Concerns. International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence, 2(Special Issue on Multisensor User Tracking and Analytics to Improve Education and other Application Fields). https://www.ijimai.org/journal/bibcite/reference/2462
Prinsloo, P. (2017). Fleeing from Frankenstein’s monster and meeting Kafka on the way: Algorithmic decision-making in higher education. E-Learning and Digital Media, 14(3), 138–163. https://doi.org/10.1177/2042753017731355
Prinsloo, P., & Slade, S. (2015). Student privacy self-management: Implications for learning analytics. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Learning Analytics And Knowledge – LAK ’15, 83–92. https://doi.org/10.1145/2723576.2723585
Roberts, L. D., Howell, J. A., Seaman, K., & Gibson, D. C. (2016). Student Attitudes toward Learning Analytics in Higher Education: “The Fitbit Version of the Learning World”. Frontiers in Psychology, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01959
Ross, J., & Macleod, H. (2018). Surveillance, (dis)trust and teaching with plagiarism detection technology. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Networked Learning 2018. Networked Learning, Zagreb. http://www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/abstracts/ross.html
Rubel, A., & Jones, K. (2016a). Student privacy in learning analytics: An information ethics perspective. The Information Society, 32(2), 143–159.
Rubel, A., & Jones, K. M. L. (2016b). Student privacy in learning analytics: An information ethics perspective. The Information Society, 32(2), 143–159. https://doi.org/10.1080/01972243.2016.1130502
Slade, S., & Prinsloo, P. (2015). Student Perspectives on the Use of their Data: Between Intrusion, Surveillance and Care. European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 18(1), Article 1. https://www.eurodl.org/?p=special&sp=articles&inum=6&article=673&article=679
Slade, S., Prinsloo, P., & Khalil, M. (2019). Learning analytics at the intersections of student trust, disclosure and benefit. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge, 235–244. https://doi.org/10.1145/3303772.3303796
Swauger, S. (2020, April 2). Our Bodies Encoded: Algorithmic Test Proctoring in Higher Education. Hybrid Pedagogy. https://hybridpedagogy.org/our-bodies-encoded-algorithmic-test-proctoring-in-higher-education/
Tanczer, L. M., Deibert, R. J., Bigo, D., Franklin, M. I., Melgaço, L., Lyon, D., Kazansky, B., & Milan, S. (2020). Online Surveillance, Censorship, and Encryption in Academia. International Studies Perspectives, 21(1), 1–36. https://doi.org/10.1093/isp/ekz016
Traxler, J. (2016). Students and mobile devices. ALT-J Research in Learning Technology, 18(2), 149–160.
Tsai, Y.-S., Whitelock-Wainwright, A., & Gašević, D. (2020). The privacy paradox and its implications for learning analytics. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge, 230–239. https://doi.org/10.1145/3375462.3375536
Watson, C., Wilson, A., Drew, V., & Thompson, T. L. (2017). Small data, online learning and assessment practices in higher education: A case study of failure? Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 42(7), 1030–1045. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2016.1223834
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Williamson, B., Eynon, R., & Potter, J. (2020). Pandemic politics, pedagogies and practices: Digital technologies and distance education during the coronavirus emergency. Learning, Media and Technology, 45(2), 107–114. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2020.1761641
Wilson, A., Watson, C., Thompson, T. L., Drew, V., & Doyle, S. (2017). Learning analytics: Challenges and limitations. Teaching in Higher Education, 22(8), 991–1007. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2017.1332026