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E-learning systems have made considerable progress within the last few years. Nonetheless, the issue of learner privacy has been practically ignored. Existing E-learning standards offer some provisions for privacy and the security of E-learning systems offers some privacy protection. Privacy preserving E-learning solutions fall short and still require further development. Additionally, the advent of E-learning 2.0 introduced a whole new set of challenges with regards to privacy preservation. In this chapter we introduce E-learning systems security and privacy preserving approaches, challenges they still face, as well as the challenges brought forth by E-learning 2.0.
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Aïmeur, E., Hage, H. (2010). Preserving Learners’ Privacy. In: Nkambou, R., Bourdeau, J., Mizoguchi, R. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 308. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14363-2_23
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