The purpose of this study is to investigate students' privacy perceptions in relation to learning analytics. Privacy in learning analytics refers to collecting and storing personal data including the analyses on the data and presenting results to the different stakeholders. In total 330 university students participated in an exploratory study confronting them with different learning analytics systems. In addition, their perceived control over data and their willingness to reveal personal data

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... re investigated. Results indicated that students prefer learning analytics systems providing detailed, adaptive and personalized dashboards. Furthermore, students are rather restrained in sharing personal data with learning analytics systems. Due to the relation of acceptance and anticipated benefits of learning analytics with privacy principles interests of all relevant stakeholders should already be considered when implementing learning analytics. Upcoming research should further investigate the conditions under which students are willing to reveal relevant data for learning analytics systems.