Learning in the age of exposure

我们生活在一个曝光的时代，在这个时代，很大一部分人在社交媒体上随意披露自己的生活被认为是正常的，有时会带来灾难性的长期后果。然而，对隐私保护的担忧不应妨碍共享社会所能带来的好处，这确实是一种微妙的平衡。我们能否利用这种情况来营造一个更好的电子学习环境？在本研究计划中，我们建议解决包括社交媒体环境在内的平台中电子学习固有的各种隐私，公共性和道德问题。我们的第一个目的是设计一个框架，在这个框架中，学生和教师都可以通过一个过程来指导他们理解和定义他们的隐私和公开需求，然后建立一个值得信赖的共同学习者社区，他们对自己的学习主题有共同的兴趣。这将允许我们实现和验证与此设计相对应的平台。在整个过程中，学生将受到保护，免受潜在的恶意行为（如非法访问个人数据和篡改这些数据），不仅来自他们的同龄人和外部世界，也来自恶意的课程教师。相反，学生被禁止非法篡改自己的记录。我们建议开发两个代理，contact manager，帮助学生完成整个学习过程；vigilance manager，帮助教师密切关注可能出现的危险和不当行为。该系统通过Facebook、Twitter和LinkedIn等社交媒体进行筛选，以建立和维护一个不断增长的用户社区，这些用户渴望在各个研究领域学习和分享。共同学习者的个性化环境是为每个学生提炼出来的，最初是在联系经理的建议下，随着学生在学习上的进步，以及他对隐私、公共和道德问题的认识的提高，学生的个人控制也越来越多。同样，警戒管理器帮助讲师管理他与课程中的学生、平台中的其他学生以及其他讲师的联系。该计划最终将实现概念验证。

We live in an age of exposure, in which it is considered normal for a vast segment of the population to casually disclose their lives on social media, sometimes with disastrous long-term consequences. However, privacy-protection concerns should not hamper the benefits that a society of sharing can bring, a delicate balance indeed. Can we capitalize on this situation in order to foster a better e-learning environment? In this research program, we propose to address the various privacy, publicness and ethical issues inherent to e-learning in a platform that includes a social media environment. Our first purpose is to design a framework in which students as well as instructors are guided through a process that will help them understand and define their privacy and publicness needs and then build a community of trustworthy co-learners who share interest in their subjects of study. This will allow us to implement and validate a platform that corresponds to this design. Throughout the process, students will be protected against potential malicious actions (such as illegitimate access to personal data and tampering with such data), not only from their peers and the outside world, but also from malicious course instructors. Conversely, students are prevented from illegitimately tampering with their own records. We propose to develop two agents called contact manager to help a student through the entire learning process and vigilance manager to help the instructor keep careful watch for possible dangers and misbehaviour. This system sifts through social media such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn in order to build and maintain a growing community of users eager to learn and share in various fields of study. A personalized environment of co-learners is distilled for each individual student, initially under the suggestion of the contact manager but increasingly under the personal control of the student as he progresses not only through his study but also in his awareness of privacy, publicness and ethical issues. Similarly, the vigilance manager help the instructor manage his contacts with the students in his course, the other students in the platform, and the other instructors. This program will culminate with the realization of a proof-of-concept implementation.