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The privacy of e-learning systems has become a big concern. This paper proposes a new approach, which can effectively protect the privacy of elearning users. We propose to use the alias and anonymity to implement the privacy preservation for e-learning systems. Through the approach, a unique alias represents the real e-learning user to communicate with each other or e-learning users use the anonymity to hide their information. This approach can be very simple and efficient to be implemented in the e-learning system by well designed meta-formats of digital identities of four types of e-learning users. The anonymity can be adopted by all e-learning users to keep their privacy.
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Yong, J. (2008). Enhancing the Privacy of e-Learning Systems with Alias and Anonymity. In: Shen, W., Yong, J., Yang, Y., Barthès, JP.A., Luo, J. (eds) Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design IV. CSCWD 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5236. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92719-8_48
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