This report, published in the British Journal of Educational Technology, provides an overview of privacy regulations in 32 African countries and scholarly papers to outline legal and privacy obligations for the use of learning analytics technologies developed outside of Africa by African educational organizations and governments.
Data privacy on the African continent: Opportunities, challenges and implications for learning analytics
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