Cyber - Project - First Principles for Governing Academic Records in the Digital Era

First Principles for Governing Academic Records in the Digital Era

Digital learning environments and data analytics have dramatically expanded what might count as academic records, raising questions about the viability of inherited record systems predicated on paper or paper-equivalent documents and institutionally based verification systems. Engineers and student services professionals at Stanford and worldwide are actively developing academic record systems more appropriate for a digital era. Because academic credentials are increasingly fateful for people’s life chances, all of those who produce and purvey them must do so with careful attention to the privacy and discretion of learners and to the integrity of the human relationships inherent in any instructional process. Our project specifies first principles for the ethical governance of these new technologies.

Publications:

Hutt, E. “A Brief History of the Student Record.” Ithaka S+R. 9/2016. http://www.sr.ithaka.org/wp- content/uploads/2016/09/SR_Report_Hutt_Brief_History_Student_Record_090616.pdf
Kurzweil, M., et al. “Institutional Transformation for Student Success.” Ithaka S+R. 10/2016. http://www.sr.ithaka.org/wp- content/uploads/2016/10/SR_Case_Study_Institutional_Transformation_Student_Succe ss_102016.pdf
McKay, T. “Creating a Learning Higher Education Community.” Ithaka S+R. 9/2016. http://www.sr.ithaka.org/wp- content/uploads/2016/09/SR_Report_McKay_Creating_Learning_Higher_Ed_Communit y_090616.pdf
Slade, S. “Applications of Student Data in Higher Education: Issues and Ethical Considerations.” Ithaka S+R. 9/2016. http://www.sr.ithaka.org/wp- content/uploads/2016/09/SR_Report_Slade_Applications_Student_Data_Higher_Ed_09 0616.pdf
http://ru.stanford.edu: An ongoing web presence publicly released in September 2016, titled “Responsible Use of Student Data in Higher Education.” The purpose of this site is to catalyze national/global discussion about how data-driven improvement in higher education can be pursued with high, consistent, and transparent ethical standards.

Researchers

https://ed.stanford.edu/faculty/stevens4

Mitchell Stevens

Director, Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research and Director, Center for Advanced Research through Online Learning

Associate Professor of Sociology (by courtesy)

Stevens is an organizational sociologist with longstanding interests in the quantification of educational processes, alternative educational forms, and the formal organization of knowledge.

http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/

Dan Boneh

Co-director of the Stanford Computer Security Lab and Co-director of the Stanford Cyber Initiative

Rajeev Motwani Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering

Professor Boneh heads the applied cryptography group and co-direct the computer security lab. Professor Boneh's research focuses on applications of cryptography to computer security. His work includes cryptosystems with novel properties, web security, security for mobile devices, and cryptanalysis. He is the author of over a hundred publications in the field and is a Packard and Alfred P. Sloan fellow. He is a recipient of the 2014 ACM prize and the 2013 Godel prize. In 2011 Dr. Boneh received the Ishii award for industry education innovation. Professor Boneh received his Ph.D from Princeton University and joined Stanford in 1997.