Learning in the age of exposure

我们生活在一个暴露的时代，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阻碍共享社会所能带来的好处，这确实是一个微妙的平衡。我们能否利用这种情况来培育一个更好的电子学习环境？在这项研究计划中，我们建议在一个包括社交媒体环境的平台上解决电子学习固有的各种隐私、公共性和伦理问题。我们的第一个目标是设计一个框架，在这个框架中，指导学生和教师完成一个过程，帮助他们了解和定义他们的隐私和公共需求，然后建立一个对他们的学习科目有共同兴趣的值得信赖的合作学习者社区。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此类数据)，不仅来自他们的同龄人和外部世界，而且还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，称为联系管理器，以帮助学生完成整个学习过程，以及警戒管理器，以帮助教师仔细观察可能的危险和不当行为。这个系统通过Facebook、Twitter和LinkedIn等社交媒体进行筛选，以建立和维护越来越多的渴望学习和分享各个研究领域的用户社区。为每个学生提供一个个性化的合作学习环境，最初是在联系人经理的建议下，但随着学生不仅在学习中，而且在他对隐私、公共和道德问题的意识方面的进步，越来越多地在学生的个人控制下。同样，警戒管理器帮助讲师管理他与课程中的学生、平台上的其他学生以及其他讲师的联系。该方案最终将实现概念验证的实施。

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.