Announcing the newly released book, Privacy and Safety in Online Learning
Congratulations to MTSU faculty, Denise FitzGerald Quintel and Amy York, and their chapter contributors! They published Privacy and Safety in Online Learning, an edited monograph on January 31, 2023. This is the first book published under the James E. Walker Library’s MT Open Press imprint.
Do you teach online? Or are you interested in any of these questions:
- Why Privacy, Why Now?
- What's the State of Privacy in Online Education?
- How Can We Transform Our Pedagogy with Privacy in Mind?
- What Tools or Resources Can We Use?
Then you will want to read this book!
What the book is about
Privacy and Safety in Online Learning features essays, case studies, and pedagogical approaches that explore how educators managed the privacy, security, and safety concerns that rushed into our lives as we shifted into emergency remote learning in 2020. While the COVID-19 pandemic brought this concern into focus, privacy issues with online learning continue to exist alongside us and our students.
This book provides readers insight into the current state of privacy issues, describes the challenges and rewards of developing more privacy-focused learning environments, and presents several resources and tools that readers can bring to their own teaching practices.
Representing a variety of perspectives from K-12, higher education, and libraries, contributors describe the challenges they encountered and offer solutions to help ensure the safekeeping of students’ online lives. How do we navigate these online environments, who collects our data, and how can we protect our most vulnerable populations?
What is being said about this book
“Privacy and Safety in Online Learning makes an incredibly important contribution to the discourse on safety and wellbeing in online environments to facilitate student engagement and learning. Although the primary audience is instructors, librarians, and instructional design and technology support staff, this would also be a valuable assigned text in a college course or online teaching program. I am not aware of any books that similarly address such important issues. This strikes me as quite unique in the currently available literature.”
--Flower Darby, lead author of Small Teaching Online, co-author of The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching, and associate director of the Teaching for Learning Center at the University of Missouri
“This book looks at the privacy and online safety of students and educators from a variety of perspectives, with an emphasis on marginalized or vulnerable populations. The chapters consist of a mix of case studies, research projects, real world experiences, resources, tools, and advice. This book should be on the self of anyone who oversees online education, digital information literacy, or those responsible for setting policies and guidelines for online learning. This would also be a great book for a library school student looking to work in information literacy or online education. I am happy to have it on my shelf.”
--Bonnie Tijerina, founder and president of ER&L and author of Protecting Patron Privacy and The Ultimate Privacy Field Guide.
About the editors
Denise Quintel and Amy York are faculty librarians at the James E. Walker Library at Middle Tennessee State University. Collectively, the editors have a wide range of experience in web services and instructional technology.
About the contributing authors
The book features a diverse group of authors with incredible expertise from K-12 teachers, college and university faculty, librarians, and technologists.
Together, the editors, authors, and press have created a valuable resource that we encourage the public to read and share. If you end up using this using this book in your course, please email us about it at digitalscholar@mtsu.edu.
Book information
Available at https://doi.org/10.56638/mtopb00123
© 2023 the Authors
Published by MT Open Press at Middle Tennessee State University
One page marketing brief (PDF)
DOI: 10.56638/mtopb00123; ISBN (Digital PDF): 979-8-9871721-0-0; ISBN (paperback) 979-8-9871721-1-7
Keywords: privacy, online learning, educational technology, digital pedagogy, emergency remote learning, COVID-19
Suggested citation: Quintel, D. F. & York, A. (2023). Privacy and safety in online learning. MT Open Press, Middle Tennessee State University. https://doi.org/10.56638/mtopb00123
The print-on-demand version (paperback) is available at https://lulu.com/spotlight/mtop
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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