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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. The company was founded in 1998 by UC Berkeley doctoral students who were concerned about cheating in the science classes they taught. The company works both ends of the plagiarism market. The algorithm decides who is a cheat.

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Technology and Casey Green on campus: Future Trends Forum #3, notes and full recording

Bryan Alexander

For example, currently two-thirds of community colleges have launched mobile apps, but CIOs largely don’t see the deployment as effective. Another example: phones are much more important than tablets for less affluent students, but CIOs see them as equally significant. Casey thought that might be the case, as a partial response.

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We need to rethink university IT Services

Mark Smithers

There is little room for experimenting with tools beyond the VLE. For example there are a number of core systems that require high level protection. Innovations and going beyond the VLE. Specifically these are finance, HR, anything involving student grades or personal information. We don’t have that at the moment.

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

Hack Education

And more importantly, to ascertain where some folks – those who issue press releases, for example – want the puck to head. It ignores what happens in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for example: the site of Harvard and MIT. We’re more likely to overlook the role that venture capital plays, for example.

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