Student Privacy and Data Literacy: An Educational Opportunity
Stephanie J. Blackmon · Change The Magazine of Higher Learning · 2023
In ShortStudent privacy is a critical area of higher education that deserves greater focus, particularly as student data digitalization increases.Many colleges and universities use data literacy as a way to prepare students, sometimes from different disciplines, to work with others’ data postgraduation.Data literacy can be an avenue for helping all students understand, in plain language, the privacy implications for how colleges, universities, applications, and university partners (education companies, educational technology companies, etc.) collect and use their data.