Ethical considerations in research into mobile learning

1. Capture on Device

Images

- of painting

• copyright?

- of people

• consent?
• legal – ethical concerns

2. Consent Form – as part of system

3. Research/Evaluate

What are researchers trying to capture?

Developing collaboratively

- informed consent

• how to phrase it
• knowing what you will use data for in future?

- anonymous feedback

• confidentiality – how to promise it
• contract with children
• contract with school
• contract with funders

(difference between capturing data for research & in school to support learning)

See JISC legal

4. Relationships

trust - researchers

5. Mobility

- mixing personal data with other data,

- teachers and researchers seeing more than anticipated

6. Data

- lots more info than necessary

- data mining

7. Prototype & study affected by awareness

8. Retrospective consent

9. What you do with data is more important?

Data protection

Location

• Of research data
• Of device ownership
• Of data accessed by device ‘owner’
• Of participant – mobile (private/public)

11. Quantitative research data

- can’t have relationship between researcher (sense? - ed)