Ethics and Privacy

The attached recording provides coverage of a 14 minute interview with BT Counterpane's Bruce Schneier. Listen in as he shares some insightful words about privacy along with interesting commentary about ethics, cybersecurity and blogging. Don't forget the video (or audio) of his session in Seattle too.

In this 21 min minute recording, we'll hear from Chuck Dziuban, Director of the Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness at the University of Central Florida. Listen in as he shares some thoughts on information fluency, the importance of libraries and more.

See also:

• How Choice, Co-Creation, and Culture Are Changing What It Means to Be Net Savvy
• Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
• An Interview with Roy Rosenzweig

As a follow-up to my post yesterday on using log files for educational research, I wanted to post some links that may help people deal with ethical and legal issues arising.

In the UK, much academic research is carried out under the auspices of the UK Research Councils, which fall under the statutory control of the UK Government's Department of Trade and Industry (a subset of the Office of Science and Technology).

Each of the eight Research Councils has its own Ethics committee. Research proposals submitted to any funding programme managed by the Councils, and which carry recognised ethical implications, must first seek approval from the relevant Committee.

If researchers enjoy membership of a professional association or learned society, they should also establish whether that association has developed ethical guidelines which may be binding on the work of their members. For example, the British Educational Research Association has developed a set of ethical guidelines, and researchers' adherence to these is often cited in funding applications to the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).