Privacy and Security in E-Learning

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Author(s): Khalil El-Khatib (National Research Council, Canada), Larry Korba (National Research Council, Canada), Yuefei Xu (National Research Council, Canada)and George Yee (National Research Council, Canada)
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 17
Source title: Information Security and Ethics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Hamid Nemati (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-937-3.ch023

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Information Security & Privacy / IT Security and Ethics / Security & Forensics

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For a variety of advantages, universities and other organizations are resorting to e-learning to provide instruction on-line. While many advances have been made in the mechanics of providing on-line instruction, the needs for privacy and security have to-date been largely ignored. This paper examines privacy and security issues associated with e-learning. It presents the basic principles behind privacy practices and legislation. It investigates the more popular e-learning standards to determine their provisions and limitations for privacy and security. Privacy requirements for e-learning systems are explored with respect to the “Privacy Principles.” The capabilities of a number of existing privacy enhancing technologies, including methods for network privacy, policy-based privacy/security management, and trust systems, are reviewed and assessed.

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