Share Paper: Privacy Issues vs. Pedagogical Benefits in Cloud Computing Implementation

  1. Valerie Irvine, University of Victoria, Canada
  2. Christopher Parsons, University of Victoria, Canada
  3. Aaron Bailey, University of Victoria, Canada
  4. Luke Richards, University of Victoria, Canada

Abstract: Canadians are deeply immersed in social networking, with 60% of online Canadians being members of a social networking service. Accompanying the adoption of social media have been alarms that student data on these networks, if shared outside of Canada, could be disseminated to unknown third-parties. Broad worries about such data dissemination were significant drivers of current BC privacy legislation, which is popularly seen as precluding the use of social networking for educational purposes in BC. In this paper we examine the implications of this legislation for education in BC. We use an interdisciplinary perspective, integrating social learning theory and comparative ...