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透露他们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分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，以促进更好的电子学习环境？在这项研究计划中，我们建议解决各种隐私，公共性和道德问题固有的电子学习平台，包括社会媒体环境。我们的第一个目的是设计一个框架，在这个框架中，学生和教师都被引导通过一个过程，这将帮助他们理解和定义他们的隐私和公共性需求，然后建立一个值得信赖的共同学习者谁在他们的学习科目的兴趣共享社区。这将使我们能够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，而且来自恶意课程教师。相反，学生被阻止非法篡改自己的记录。我们建议开发两个代理称为接触管理器，以帮助学生通过整个学习过程和警惕管理器，以帮助教师保持密切关注可能的危险和不当行为。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渴望学习和分享各个研究领域的用户社区。合作学习者的个性化环境是为每个学生蒸馏，最初在联系经理的建议下，但越来越多的学生的个人控制下，他不仅通过他的学习，而且在他的隐私，公共性和道德问题的意识进步。类似地，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。该计划将以实现概念验证实现而告终。

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.