2.2 AVG Compliance Tensions in Predictive Educational Modeling
The analytical deployment of educational data mining and learning analytics within public higher education institutions operates at the vital intersection of technological utility and strict regulatory restraint. When universities aggregate student records, course grades, and online interaction logs to identify behavioral patterns and generate predictive models, institutional practices must directly align with statutory data protection mandates. As higher education shifts toward complex computational processing environments, fundamental considerations regarding ethics and data privacy become decisive parameters for lawful system design (crossref-10-4018-978-1-7998-7103-3-ch005). The Algemene Verordening Gegevensbescherming imposes rigorous legal limits on the automated processing of personal information, requiring public universities to justify every single stage of data ingestion and algorithmic profiling through transparent legal bases. Furthermore, integrating end-to-end data and machine learning pipelines that span from raw information collection to interactive reporting dashboards intensifies statutory compliance obligations across academic departments (crossref-10-12681-eadd-53168). While structured machine learning pipelines streamline early predictive interventions and automated model execution, the continuous tracking of learner behavior rigorously tests the core AVG principles of purpose limitation and data minimization. Automated extraction of latent behavioral traits from digital learning platforms risks excessive data accumulation whenever institutional governance fails to establish clear instructional boundaries. Consequently, public universities cannot treat learning analytics as unconstrained algorithmic optimization. Instead, the statutory framework demands that public educational institutions systematically evaluate stakeholder impacts, restrict processing operations strictly to verified educational necessities, and embed robust technical safeguards into every operational data pipeline.