Who owns the data when your university gives you an AI tutor?
Learning analytics platforms and AI tutoring tools collect extensive data about how students learn. Universities, companies and researchers all want access to it. Students rarely know it is being collected.
By Wistl Editorial · · Higher Ed
When a university deploys an AI tutoring platform, a learning analytics dashboard or an adaptive assessment tool, it is entering into a data relationship that extends well beyond the educational transaction. The platform records what the student does: which resources they access, how long they spend on each, where they make mistakes, how quickly they recover from errors, how their performance changes over time. This behavioural data is valuable to the university, to the platform company, and potentially to researchers studying learning. Under UK GDPR, universities processing personal data abou