Lisa Neal, Editor & Chief of e-Learning Magazine, had an interesting post about the Ethics of Tracking.
She details the impact of his perception about how his participation in the course is tracked on the effectiveness the course.
Excerpt:
"Upon completing the course I asked Gary was if he had learned anything new. Although he acknowledged the importance of the material, his answer was "no." How a course is presented to students has a dramatic impact on learning and—clearly, in this case—affects how much a student learns. The carefully worded email "inviting" students to take a mandatory course should inform them why they need to take the course, what they need to do to take it, and what happens in the process of meeting their obligation. Moreover, it is ethical to inform students if any data is being saved."
Here argument is that is learners are treated ethically and fairly, in relationship to knowing what and how they are tracked, they can better focus on learning. It would be nice, if we lived in a perfect world.
It is interesting that his perception of the e-Learning course was impacted by how he felt about being tracked, but that's not really new news either, and is quite understandable, given our human nature. One wonders if he would have been so as affected if someone was not there asking him questions about how being tracked made him feel.
Dave Boggs, SyberWorks
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