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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

Teachers, of course, know how to shift this physical setting — move the chairs around, for example. If, as promised, these machines could allow students to move through course materials at their own pace without teacher supervision, there had to be — had to be — some mechanism to prevent deceptive behavior.

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We need to rethink university IT Services

Mark Smithers

There is little room for experimenting with tools beyond the VLE. Even a simple thing like enforcing a university branded desktop wall paper and screensaver will annoy most academic staff and yet some brand manager will have insisted on it because that’s how it worked at the insurance company they were at last.

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The Top Ed-Tech Trends (Aren't 'Tech')

Hack Education

It’s a look back at what’s happened over the course of each year, not simply – to counter that totally overused phrase from hockey player Wayne Gretsky’s dad – to “skate to where the puck is going,” but to examine where it has been. “Higher education is a bubble,” as Peter Thiel has said.

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