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Is It Ethical to Run Learning Experiments On Students Without Their Knowledge?

July 9, 2021

Via: Ed Surge
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Imagine you’re an edtech company with thousands of students on your platform. You see an opportunity to make a small change that might improve their learning outcomes, so you roll it out to a group of students who don’t know they are part of the sample.

Did you simply practice the same type of A/B testing that’s common throughout the tech sphere? Or rope unwitting students into being the guinea pigs of your experiment without consent?

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