Considerations for recruiting contributions to anonymised data sets

Eelco Herder, Ricardo Kawase
2012 International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning  
For the improvement and evaluation of learning management systems as well as concepts and tools for personal history, the availability of suitable data has become increasingly important. In this paper we discuss considerations for creating such a data set and report on our experiences while recruiting contributions for the Web History Repository project (WHR). We focus on measures and techniques for addressing privacy issues and strategies for motivating people to contribute. We briefly report
more » ... n the outcomes of the first rounds of analysis of the data set and discuss implications for educational data mining. In 2006, he completed his PhD from the University of Twente, the Netherlands on the analysis of user interaction with the world wide web. His current research activities are focused on web usage analysis, user profiling in the social web and the development of tools for Personal Information Management. Ricardo Kawase is a PhD student in L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany. He has been actively involved in various projects in the field of technology-enhanced learning. His research interests focus on human-computer interaction, user behaviour, social media and the semantic web.
doi:10.1504/ijtel.2012.048315 fatcat:gmcf755z2fdntbr73x4g5o2lja