ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a broad overview of ethical considerations in the collection, analysis, and use of student data before investigating specific issues surrounding and informing the notion and scope of student consent. It focuses on the notion of informed consent in the context of the collection, analysis, and use of students' data. While the practices of simple and informed consent in medical contexts may be useful in our consideration of informed consent in Learning Analytics, there remain important differences. C. Lazaro and D. Le Metayer state that underpinning debates regarding informed consent to the collection, analysis, and use of individuals' digital data is the notion of control—"the notion of control dominates the contemporary conceptual and normative landscape of data protection and privacy". The clear difference between understanding a patient's choices in the medical context and in the digital data context is the significant potential for actions to be hidden and unknown.
