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Overcoming security and privacy concerns with e-learning

Neo LMS

More students than ever before now have access to a quality education, no matter where they live. Lesson plans can be tailored to meet the learning needs of individual students. At the postsecondary level, more than 15% of students were enrolled exclusively online in 2017. took at least one online course.

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How Librarians Hold the Key to Future Ready Schools

Digital Promise

I posed that question in my recent TEDx talk during the 2016 Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools meeting in San Diego. In the last year, a new #DPLIS work group was formed to build a community of practice to vision, implement, and support innovative library programs in League districts.

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Lessons and Leadership During the Switch to Online Learning

edWeb.net

This will require further funding and technological solutions to deal with the vast inequality between the students who have full and fast access to online education, and the many students who still do not. He has started having small-group discussions with school principals to learn about key issues and what can help to resolve them.

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Chief Privacy Officers: The Unicorns of K-12 Education

Edsurge

Denver Public Schools in Colorado and Baltimore County Public Schools in Maryland have each hired a senior-level official who is responsible for the organization’s privacy policies and data governance. It’s the closest thing BCPS has to a privacy official, Corns says. He also spends a lot of time on contract reviews, he says.

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Brainwave Headsets Are Making Their Way Into Classrooms—For Meditation and Discipline

Edsurge

Advertising for the device is tailored to adults, but researchers outside of the company want to know if the devices can help calm students down as well—and keep them out of the principal’s office. To find out, professors at Kansas State University put the headset on a group of students. Food and Drug Administration.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

. “I’m slightly wary of building a Google data profile of a young child,” says @ashleyrcarman @verge [link]. Tagged on: March 19, 2017 The Top 10: Student Privacy News (Feb-March 2017) | Future of Privacy Forum → If you care about student data privacy, worth the read and worth signing up for the email newsletter.

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Trump's Edtech Agenda Should Address Effectiveness, Equity, and Equilibrium in Higher Ed

Edsurge

Editor’s Note: ‘Tis the season of giving, eating and reflecting, a time to look back on 2016 and to make bold predictions about what next year may hold. The Administration and colleges should also consider how innovation impacts various groups, particularly traditionally underrepresented or underserved students.

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